Travelling to/from anywhere along the North Wales coast by Train?
Inverness to Bangor £131

Inverness to Dublin Ferryport £38

Penzance to Rhyl £135

Penzance to Dublin Ferryport £33

and get off at your preferred station. This may actually constitute breach of contract, but I'm an engineer, not a lawyer, so I'm not sure.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 21:14, 10 replies)

The bastards don't allow you to get off "early"
and penalise you if you do so even though you have used less of the resources you paid for. You're dead right, it's a shit system.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 15 Nov 2011, 23:03, closed)

Christ. I get the aberdeen to bangor train(same train) once a year for me and my bro.
£118 with a railcard, return for the 2 of us.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 23:20, closed)

Wasnt there a case of....
.... a couple being prohibited from leaving the station without paying an extra fee for disembarking their train before their paid for intended destination?
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Tue 15 Nov 2011, 23:47, closed)

there was..
Some city councils subsidies the rail companies to attract visitors to their shops, get off early and you don't 'repay' them with your patron.
Peterborough is one such place.
(lordy lordy, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 6:40, closed)

Interesting
I did not know this.
( .Yeti., Wed 16 Nov 2011, 8:03, closed)

The solution is
to also buy a single ticket from the train station immediately before your destination to your destination station, and show that ticket when you get off. Costs a couple of quid extra, but no hassle.
(Mystery_Machine, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 8:59, closed)

Can you do that online as well?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 9:46, closed)

I think you can actually
It's interesting, have a play on the national rail website. Look at tickets from where you live to places in Ireland and NI. NI approved routes go via Scotland from Sussex. You'll find it's much cheaper to get the Ireland / NI tickets and you can simply buy Glasgow Airport to Glasgow Central ticket £2.90 as your get out of jail free card. You could even buy this from a conductor.
(sunray18, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 11:00, closed)

It's also worth
breaking your journey up where you change trains. I'm travelling from London on Sunday, and by buying a ticket to Crewe, then a ticket to Bangor, I'll save about £30.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 20:36, closed)

Bognor Regis - Belfast £49 Goes via sleeper service to Glasgow
Bognor Regis - Glasgow £135

It's worth looking at buying tickets for destinations across the Irish Sea if you're going to be spending more than £50 on a train ticket.
(sunray18, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 11:06, closed)