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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #120 on: July 20, 2021, 12:53:01 pm »
So Avanti seem to have hiked their advanced fares by 40-50%...

Yep and their website doesn’t seem to allow advance bookings for weekends. They’ve done literally nothing good since taking over from Virgin apart from painting the trains a different colour.

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #121 on: July 20, 2021, 12:56:46 pm »
Yep and their website doesn’t seem to allow advance bookings for weekends. They’ve done literally nothing good since taking over from Virgin apart from painting the trains a different colour.

Advanced bookings were released for the Burnley game today. Around £55-60 with railcards. Absolutely ridiculous.

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« Reply #122 on: July 20, 2021, 01:52:08 pm »
Advanced bookings were released for the Burnley game today. Around £55-60 with railcards. Absolutely ridiculous.
that's crazy. Used to be £12 advance fares when I used to travel up for most home games during the 13/14 season and that was without any railcard. What's the going price of the equivalent return journey likely to be this season?

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #123 on: July 20, 2021, 04:05:54 pm »
Advanced bookings were released for the Burnley game today. Around £55-60 with railcards. Absolutely ridiculous.

Seems to be across the board with trains. Think they have seen a chance to increase fares due to lower numbers.

I have been looking at Liverpool>Norwich overnight return and it is £120. I have done euro aways cheaper, including flight, match ticket and hotel. Gonna end up driving.

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #124 on: July 20, 2021, 04:32:31 pm »
Seems to be across the board with trains. Think they have seen a chance to increase fares due to lower numbers.

I have been looking at Liverpool>Norwich overnight return and it is £120. I have done euro aways cheaper, including flight, match ticket and hotel. Gonna end up driving.

Think we'll end up driving a lot more than we used now as well mate. Absolute ball ache

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #125 on: July 25, 2021, 04:57:57 pm »
Used to be a regular on the Virgins but Avanti have gone mad with their fare hikes. Will have second thoughts in future

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #126 on: July 25, 2021, 06:24:25 pm »
Not sure it's gonna do anything but I thought I'd try email the club because it's a completely ridiculous price hike, although doubt they really have any clout on these things. I did have a conversation with someone in the London office who said they had previously tried to ask Virgin for special football rates but it never got anywhere.

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #127 on: July 25, 2021, 06:30:41 pm »
I think I was a bit premature with my criticisms, me and my group managed to get returns for the Palace match for £34 the other day. The fares are out there, think you just have to be quick as they put them up at random times.

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #128 on: July 26, 2021, 08:14:08 am »
I think I was a bit premature with my criticisms, me and my group managed to get returns for the Palace match for £34 the other day. The fares are out there, think you just have to be quick as they put them up at random times.
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Was that by a chance viewing of there site or was it from an email alert? Ta
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« Reply #129 on: July 26, 2021, 10:16:00 am »
I think I was a bit premature with my criticisms, me and my group managed to get returns for the Palace match for £34 the other day. The fares are out there, think you just have to be quick as they put them up at random times.
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Was that by a chance viewing of there site or was it from an email alert? Ta

A mate sorts it all out for us. We get email alerts and managed to book for approx £45 after the alert, the next day another mate sent a message saying cheaper fares were available and as we were within 24 hours of booking our initial fares we were able to cancel and get the cheaper ones.

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #130 on: July 26, 2021, 03:22:49 pm »
"I think I was a bit premature with my criticisms, me and my group managed to get returns for the Palace match for £34 the other day. The fares are out there, think you just have to be quick as they put them up at random times"

Was that on the avanti trains? looking on the website now for the 18th September is only showing the regular off peak fares, £95 for a return!

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #131 on: July 26, 2021, 03:25:22 pm »
"I think I was a bit premature with my criticisms, me and my group managed to get returns for the Palace match for £34 the other day. The fares are out there, think you just have to be quick as they put them up at random times"

Was that on the avanti trains? looking on the website now for the 18th September is only showing the regular off peak fares, £95 for a return!

Yep, they were advanced fares with two together railcards

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #132 on: July 26, 2021, 04:07:06 pm »
Should try London Northwestern railway, they operate the slow trains out of Euston, but you have to change at Stafford/Crewe & can take an extra hour plus, compared with the Avanti service, but you can get cheap deals with them.
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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #133 on: July 26, 2021, 04:55:41 pm »
Should try London Northwestern railway, they operate the slow trains out of Euston, but you have to change at Stafford/Crewe & can take an extra hour plus, compared with the Avanti service, but you can get cheap deals with them.

it just seems unfeasible to be doing more than a handful of games on those long trains imo. I did quite a few the other season and it was painfully long. for me I'll only do them if I have no other option.
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« Reply #134 on: August 5, 2021, 02:15:29 pm »
I think I was a bit premature with my criticisms, me and my group managed to get returns for the Palace match for £34 the other day. The fares are out there, think you just have to be quick as they put them up at random times.
do the prices tend to fluctuate then? Best i can see for the Palace game currently is £94.50 return (without railcard)

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #135 on: August 5, 2021, 02:16:15 pm »
do the prices tend to fluctuate then? Best i can see for the Palace game currently is £94.50 return (without railcard)

Got to get on the advanced fares early enough to get the cheaper tickets

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« Reply #136 on: August 6, 2021, 04:33:56 pm »
Checked with Avanti and advance tickets have sold out so the only option is the £94.50 return, is a scandal that they are allowed to charge that much, travelling via Birmingham can be cheaper some times as there is more competition on the routes.

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #137 on: August 6, 2021, 04:41:01 pm »
Checked with Avanti and advance tickets have sold out so the only option is the £94.50 return, is a scandal that they are allowed to charge that much, travelling via Birmingham can be cheaper some times as there is more competition on the routes.

That can't true as you can't even buy trains for the City match on their website yet...

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« Reply #138 on: August 6, 2021, 05:18:04 pm »
Sorry I meant for the palace game on the 18th

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #139 on: August 6, 2021, 05:19:33 pm »
Sorry I meant for the palace game on the 18th

Oh yeah advanced trains for the Palace game went on sales weeks ago

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« Reply #140 on: August 9, 2021, 05:54:08 pm »
For those looking to go up on the 28th of August for the Chelsea game the timetables should be released tomorrow morning.

I work for a TOC and it’s rumoured that there will be replacement busses between Euston and MK 😕 but don’t quote me on that.


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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #141 on: August 9, 2021, 05:59:10 pm »
For those looking to go up on the 28th of August for the Chelsea game the timetables should be released tomorrow morning.

I work for a TOC and it’s rumoured that there will be replacement busses between Euston and MK 😕 but don’t quote me on that.



Will there be advanced fares on it?

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #142 on: August 9, 2021, 06:57:42 pm »
For those looking to go up on the 28th of August for the Chelsea game the timetables should be released tomorrow morning.

I work for a TOC and it’s rumoured that there will be replacement busses between Euston and MK 😕 but don’t quote me on that.


Any idea what time they go on sale?

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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #143 on: August 10, 2021, 11:58:30 am »
Any idea what time they go on sale?


BH weekend on sale now
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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #144 on: August 10, 2021, 12:10:13 pm »

BH weekend on sale now

Still said the timetable hasn't been finalised

Either way if you were planning on travelling up and down on the day of the game from London I'd be very surprised if there were trains after the match

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« Reply #145 on: August 10, 2021, 12:18:42 pm »
Still said the timetable hasn't been finalised

Either way if you were planning on travelling up and down on the day of the game from London I'd be very surprised if there were trains after the match

i had the email and have looked at the trains, they are there, I had to refresh from a previous search though. There is a 20.04 London Northwestern/Midland that gets in 00.40, you'd have to get out of the ground pretty sharpish though.

Might they put on an extra train, they always seem to for Spurs but never tell you about it.
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Re: Trains from London - any general tips, please?
« Reply #146 on: August 10, 2021, 12:20:16 pm »
i had the email and have looked at the trains, they are there, I had to refresh from a previous search though. There is a 20.04 London Northwestern/Midland that gets in 00.40, you'd have to get out of the ground pretty sharpish though.

You'd probably have to miss the last 10 minutes of the game to get a taxi back to town for that and even then you'll really struggle for the last tubes with night tube not returning yet.


When I did a search though there was a big pop up saying "The timetable hasn't been finalised yet"

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« Reply #147 on: August 10, 2021, 12:22:27 pm »
You'd probably have to miss the last 10 minutes of the game to get a taxi back to town for that and even then you'll really struggle for the last tubes with night tube not returning yet.

I've made that one before I think, but normally walk/jog back from ground and then get night bus home (no night tube to where I live in normal times anyway). But not ideal. I'm not doing Chelsea though just trying to help....
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« Reply #148 on: August 10, 2021, 12:24:14 pm »


When I did a search though there was a big pop up saying "The timetable hasn't been finalised yet"

No idea, I'm literally looking at the tickets......
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« Reply #149 on: August 10, 2021, 03:01:27 pm »
It is insane that they keep scheduling London teams to pay 5.30 on Saturday when there are no train's back that evening. Though you could argue that 6 weeks notice is enough for the train companies to schedule 4-5 trains to run from 8.30pm

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« Reply #150 on: August 10, 2021, 03:09:28 pm »
It is insane that they keep scheduling London teams to pay 5.30 on Saturday when there are no train's back that evening. Though you could argue that 6 weeks notice is enough for the train companies to schedule 4-5 trains to run from 8.30pm

Nothing to do with football, it's insane that the last direct train from Liverpool to London on a Saturday leaves before 8pm for a 2 1/2 hour journey
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« Reply #151 on: August 10, 2021, 05:02:35 pm »
thx got sorted but then we are staying up with mates in Huyton, cant be assed with running for trains, aint been to a game since madrid in 2020 buzzzzzzzzzzzzin!

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« Reply #152 on: August 11, 2021, 02:05:50 pm »

The ticket booking page on the Avanti website has disappeared. It’s been gone all morning. Anyone know why? Possible ticket release?

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« Reply #153 on: August 11, 2021, 02:47:35 pm »
The ticket booking page on the Avanti website has disappeared. It’s been gone all morning. Anyone know why? Possible ticket release?

The app is working, you tried that?

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« Reply #154 on: August 12, 2021, 02:37:45 pm »

Ta. I just find it very odd that you can’t book tickets on a train company’s ticket site. One of the unexpected benefits of privatisation I guess.

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« Reply #155 on: August 12, 2021, 04:09:44 pm »
Will there be advanced fares on it?

Sorry I missed your message.

Did you sort train tickets for Burnley?

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« Reply #156 on: August 12, 2021, 04:10:27 pm »
Sorry I missed your message.

Did you sort train tickets for Burnley?

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« Reply #157 on: August 17, 2021, 07:31:35 pm »
If you have AMEX there's cashback on Avanti until end of September. If it doesn't appear for you and you're a relatively decent customer call them and they sometimes can add offers to your account if you ask nicely.
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« Reply #158 on: August 19, 2021, 01:50:13 pm »
Anyone knows why there are no trains listed for Sundays (London to Liverpool) from 26.09.?
I know it's said that timetables not confirmed yet - but why?
Do they put it randomly or are they do it on specyfic day for each Sunday?

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« Reply #159 on: August 19, 2021, 01:54:00 pm »
Anyone knows why there are no trains listed for Sundays (London to Liverpool) from 26.09.?
I know it's said that timetables not confirmed yet - but why?
Do they put it randomly or are they do it on specyfic day for each Sunday?

they seem to be releasing tickets a bit later recently but I just briefly checked TrainPal (a third party app) and it seems to show me times.

you can put on notifications for advance fares https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/tickets-and-savings/ways-to-save/advance-ticket-alerts
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