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Train ticket spike?

Posted by (Omaha, NE USA) on

So, I've been following train ticket prices. We will be traveling from Edinburgh to London King's Cross or Euston on Tuesday June 10th.

A week or so ago, I checked the Tuesday in May ticket prices for advance tickets and they were only 25 pounds a person. I checked May because the nationalrail website wouldn't let me check June yet.

Now, my June date has finally opened and I went to check the price...125 pounds per ticket!

What am I missing? I thought the earlier I bought, the better fair I could get.

The Tuesday before is still 25 pounds per ticket. Could it be that since tickets JUST opened up, they are more expensive?

Posted by
3098 posts

I think you need to wait a few days. The advance fares may be released in weekly batches! not day by day. At least that is what I saw when I was looking to buy tickets London to Edinburgh in mid-May. I signed up for fare alerts on the Eastcoast train website and was notified on the day the advance fares were available.

I registered on the site and noticed the "alert" notification option when I entered a date that was beyond the fare availability. It worked like clockwork.

Posted by
8700 posts

While you now can buy full fare tickets for 10 June, East Coast hasn't released its discount fare tickets that far ahead yet. Keep checking. They will appear.

Posted by
67 posts

I have been using nationalrail.co.uk.

Is there a better website?

Posted by
3098 posts

National rail website will show the fares but you cannot buy the tickets; it will send you to the correct site or sites for that route. Edinburgh to Londonnis East Coast trains so you may as well use that one.

http://www.eastcoast.co.uk/

You can sign up for fare alerts for your particular travel day as I explained above.

Posted by
1265 posts

In checking eastcoast.co.uk for Edinburgh - London for June 10th, I see a fare of £24.00 per person.

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