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[Albion] Cheapest way to Liverpool by train?
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DavePage
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Get on at Widnes
arewethereyet?
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Fare dodge, don’t buy a ticket and see how far you get. 
drew
Drew
Probably a bit late now but we got £34 return from Euston.
Raleigh Chopper
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LowKarate
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Cling to the roof of a carriage.
(Don’t do this)
(Don’t do this)
Bought my ticket last week £44 return from Euston. I think you have to be a real early bird to get any cheaper
There's a coach that travels through the night - gets to Liverpool at 6 in the morning. That was only £9, I did seriously consider it but it's only worth it if you can get some kip. I did the overnighter getting back from a rugby international at Cardiff once and felt half-dead the next day.
There's a coach that travels through the night - gets to Liverpool at 6 in the morning. That was only £9, I did seriously consider it but it's only worth it if you can get some kip. I did the overnighter getting back from a rugby international at Cardiff once and felt half-dead the next day.
el punal
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Try various train company sites for prices. You may get some bargains, for example Chiltern Railways from Marylebone to Birmingham, then Crosscountry Trains from Brum. etc. Download a National Railway network map, this will tell you all the rail routes and companies and then try finding out prices from A to B. You may be doglegging a bit but at least you’ll save a few pennies.
P.S. If you’re really skint try National Express coaches. You can go Saturday evening from Victoria coach station for £5.00 which gets you to Liverpool at midnight or go overnight for £9.30 which arrives at around 6.00 - just in time for breakfast!
P.S. If you’re really skint try National Express coaches. You can go Saturday evening from Victoria coach station for £5.00 which gets you to Liverpool at midnight or go overnight for £9.30 which arrives at around 6.00 - just in time for breakfast!
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Do as the scouse do.
Jump the barrier and hide on the luggage rack, in the bog, or clinging to the outside of the carriage.
Jump the barrier and hide on the luggage rack, in the bog, or clinging to the outside of the carriage.
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Cheers, its £109 return from Brighton, persoanlly I really dont mind, it will be my last football spend for a while and the first time out of 15+ away games this season We would have paid full price. plans of a weekend away have gone tits up and everyone fancys a beer, so its a matter of sucking it up.
I will have a look at how to save money using different networks.
Bobby's Gull
DAFT Bint
No one checked my ticket getting on at Euston on the way to the Everton game, no one checked on the way & Lime Street has no gates. This happened on the way home as well.
Worth a try maybe ..... ����*
Worth a try maybe ..... ����*
Gazwag
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No one checked my ticket getting on at Euston on the way to the Everton game, no one checked on the way & Lime Street has no gates. This happened on the way home as well.
Worth a try maybe ..... ����*
I realise you are not serious but I always have had my tickets checked getting on at Euston on Virgins trains, cant usually get through the gates otherwise as there are usually about 3 virgin staff checking tickets. Some platforms have barriers as well, when we went to Manchester for the cup game we had to go through barriers at Euston.
Bobby's Gull
DAFT Bint
It must have been a massive fluke to be honest as I have family in Liverpool & I have done that journey countless times & I have always been checked on the train & before boarding at Euston.
I walked past the staff onto the platform at Euston on the Saturday morning & they just waived me through. It was a bit odd.
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el punal
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No one checked my ticket getting on at Euston on the way to the Everton game, no one checked on the way & Lime Street has no gates. This happened on the way home as well.
Worth a try maybe ..... ����*
Big risk! Virgin are hot shit on checking tickets on board, en route. When we were travelling to Newcastle on Virgin, just after Christmas, one of the lads we were chatting to had a ticket for Grand Central to Doncaster. Virgin do not accept other train company tickets and he got clobbered for full fare - £54!! Ouch!
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Virgin are scrupulous about tickets.
I had a valid return ticket for a train at 2 but my meeting finished early so I jumped an earlier one. Ended up having to pay a load of extra because I was travelling on an "invalid" ticket. The train was 3/4 empty so I don't see what the issue was.
I had a valid return ticket for a train at 2 but my meeting finished early so I jumped an earlier one. Ended up having to pay a load of extra because I was travelling on an "invalid" ticket. The train was 3/4 empty so I don't see what the issue was.
Publius Ovidius
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Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
No one checked my ticket getting on at Euston on the way to the Everton game, no one checked on the way & Lime Street has no gates. This happened on the way home as well.
Worth a try maybe ..... ����*
We had our tickets checked at Euston for West Brom, Stoke and Everton. We also had to show our railcards to show we were entitled to our fare reductions.
I suppose so - but I've found it depends very much on the ticket collector in question. But when a train is rammed - allowing people to jump on without a ticket for that train would create carnage.
theboybilly
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Grand Central are not part of ATOC as it was formed after the privatisation cut-off in the 1990s. I forgot this when I used them to go to 'that' Boro match in 2016. Luckily I had a decent member of staff to deal with and got to Sunderland without bother.
'Split my ticket' website shows a cheapest price from Brighton to Lime Street of a tad over £100 return