So, with much help from many of you on this site, we do have our train tickets purchased. When we are in Liverpool, we want to take a day trip to Chester for one day. Can we just go to the train station and buy a ticket for that journey on the day we want to go or should we buy this in advance?
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OP
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
1446 posts
Thanks for the information, Emma, and the chart on the race days. You are right, shouldn't effect us since we don't plan to go on one of those days. Hope there won't be a strike but we will go with whatever happens. Thanks.
Posted by
Chicago
1347 posts
You'll want the all Zones saveaway ticket for 5 pound twenty.It's less expensive than a return ticket.
https://www.merseyrail.org/tickets-passes/daily-travel/saveaway.aspx
Posted by
OP
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
1446 posts
Great information SteveB. Thanks. I'm thinking it's OK to buy a one-way ticket (Liverpool to Chester) and then when we decide to return to Liverpool, just buy our ticket back at that time. Right? I am so inexperienced with trains that I know my questions probably sound silly.
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2808 posts
No Sharon, it is £7.45 return but £7.05 one way. Buy the ticket at the train station on the day. (It is only on longer distance trains that it pays to purchase in advance a one way ticket for a specific train). I did this route about 8 years ago and much of it is stop/ start at various commuter communities. You can always check fares from home at www.nationalrail.co.uk - but of course, you would have to allow for the time zone difference.
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Arctophilia, Northamptonshire, England
35430 posts
Throughout the country a Cheap Day Return - now in modern-speak an Off-Peak Return - but ask the booking office for a Cheap Day Return, they will know what you want - is only a few pence, often 5p, more than an Off-Peak Single.
Return = round-trip.