F.A.O London based shrimp fans
Posted:
Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:56 pm
by halftimeresults
you can still get cheap train ticket for saturday
£10 return to Liverpool (but get off at wigan if you can)
http://www.londonmidland.com/tickets-an ... at-escape/Liverpool /Lancaster return £15
Re: F.A.O London based shrimp fans
Posted:
Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:12 pm
by marky No.1
Have you been PEAKing on the Stevenage website by any chance?
Re: F.A.O London based shrimp fans
Posted:
Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:50 am
by essex_shrimp
Get a train ticket from Lancaster/Morecambe to London Liverpool Street and get yourself a train pass there do one i got 16-24.
And prebook the journey it usually would cost £75 but prebook it a day of two in hand with the Train 16-24 train bus of course there do others deals with different age groups.
I got mine for £31.25 to London tomorrow and then another £8.00 to get to Colchester it is a bargain £31.25 with the pass
Re: F.A.O London based shrimp fans
Posted:
Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:59 am
by Plain Peter
Me and Doris have got an early morning flight from Gatwick on 3 November.
We're staying the previous night at an hotel in Crawley.
Getting the train from Pompey.
Crawley train station is 2 stops closer to Pompey than Gatwick Airport.
Promotion fare from Pompey to Gatwick is £3.75 each.
Fare (no promotion) from Pompey to Crawley is £20.50 each!
Bought tickets to Gatwick online, but will obviously get off the train at Crawley.
Problem is that you have to go through automated ticket barriers to exit the station.
So there's a pretty good chance that we'd get knobbled for getting off the train before our destination, and risk getting a fine.
Solution is to buy a couple of singles online between Gatwick and Crawley, and put those tickets through the automatic barrier.
Re: F.A.O London based shrimp fans
Posted:
Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:11 am
by marky No.1
Peter wrote:Solution is to buy a couple of singles online between Gatwick and Crawley, and put those tickets through the automatic barrier.
Yep £2.60 each for your 6 min journey
Re: F.A.O London based shrimp fans
Posted:
Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:58 am
by Plain Peter
marky No.1 wrote:Peter wrote:Solution is to buy a couple of singles online between Gatwick and Crawley, and put those tickets through the automatic barrier.
Yep £2.60 each for your 6 min journey
It's an insurance against falling foul of the rules.
Still gives us a saving of £28.80, which will be well spent on a 'crawl' through Crawley