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Inverness by Train (via the West Coast Mainline) - How to do it for Less!
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- How much do you think a standard ticket costs to get from Shrewsbury to Inverness? Well, when I was researching this trip it came out at over £140! The (part) first-class option was more than double that!! And I would say that's roughly the same for other parts of the country a similar distance away.
So you’ll want to know when travelling to Inverness by train (via the West Coast Mainline) - how to do it for less! And believe me, it cost half the price of the advertised price! On the way, we’ll also take in a mini tour of Perth and a VERY close encounter on a bridge with a HST!
Please join me on this journey, travelling on several trains from Transport for Wales to Scotrail with a bit of Avanti West Coast Mainline travel thrown into the middle as well! I had a great days travel and I hope it encourages you to do it too, cheaply!
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Mark
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Great film. I was luck to have lived in Perth for 3 years (1967-70). Could see the Highland Main Line between a couple of houses on the other side of the road. Have had many trips that way since, and to Inverness. Great place and particularly the public lounge bar of the hotel next to the station. There's some great bus routes from Inverness to, including the one to Aberdeen. By preference have always used the slower service via Cullen the Moray Coast.
Cheers Peter, oh Perth is lovely I think - very interesting station and plenty of opportunities for onward travel. Yes there will be a few more adventures from Scotland to come I’m sure!
The line on the bridge goes from perth to dundee and aberdeen
Pretty impressive ticket prices when you plan ahead. It’s a shame a lot of people get ripped off paying the turn up on the day fare.
Agree, I enjoyed the trains up there but if it ended up over £100 I’d be catching a plane MAN - INV with Loganair tbh.
Lovely video. Always very interesting to watch! That certainly was a significant saving on the original price being charged. I will need remember that in future myself. Thanks for sharing.
Hey thanks AFUK. As always, split ticketing is the way to do it. It shouldn’t be necessary really but the complexities of UK rail fares is mind-boggling and if you don’t know how to play it, you just end up getting ripped-off.
I remember when I went from Leeds to Leicester back in 2019 and it cost me like £20 less to split fares at Sheffield and then go down to Leicester from there.
@@wilsonator2008 I’ve never done that route Josh. Is Sheffield the less-obvious but cheaper route or would it be normal to go via Doncaster, Newark?
The only tickets I remember being available for that day were via Sheffield and the MML. If I went XC to Chesterfield and EML from there to Leicester it would’ve cost more for basically the same trains
@@wilsonator2008 yep, I guess it’s all about searching out these fares which I kind of enjoy to a point. I mean I can get from Wolverhampton to Euston for £7 with West Midlands Trains which, although it’s slower than AWC, is pretty good value tbf!
Awesome video buddy from Alan in Lowestoft
cheers Alan - thanks for looking at some of my old stuff. Video quality has improved a bit since then I hope!
Fantastic video!
Thanks dude!
Another really interesting video. Splitting tickets, even taking non standard routes can work out cheaper. I travelled to Leeds last week. The direct Edinburgh to Leeds LNER or XC worked out at £75. But taking Aventi West Coast to Carlise then Northern Trains to Leeds cut the cost in half. It also had the advantage of travelling down the gorgeous Settle Carlisle line.
Hi again Patricia. Yes, I’ve never done the Settle - Carlisle line (it’s on my list). I agree, if you put the work in you can get some good deals. Not that I’m advocating ‘playing the system’ but you can also effectively employ the rail equivalent of ‘skiplagging’ to leverage lower fares (especially good tactic at Crewe this is where I’m normally continuing my journey). Rail/sail is also a good one and that’s just started up again at least to Belfast. Shrewsbury to Glasgow to Ayr to Cairnryan then over to Belfast on the ferry = £48.
You can walk between gllasgow central to queen street 15mins
Yes I've done this recently. OK if you know your way around and probably quicker than the bus link tbh.
i done that from Euston to Rugby spliting an off peak return at Milton Keynes saved me 15 quid from 60-45
Yeh, Milton Keynes seems a good point for splitting tickets. Also, I’ve found Preston good for doing that when going further north. Not sure of the reasons why tbh but if it saves money 👍
I got £53 from Crewe, one change via Edinburgh. Its actually £35 with a railcard. I also managed a return for £57.90 with railcard
Yes that’s pretty good Mike, I’m impressed! Actually the Shrewsbury to Crewe bit is probably more expensive (per mile) than any other leg when you add that bit on.
Really nice train trip
Hey thanks EE, glad you enjoyed it. Plenty more train trips on my channel if you’re interested and I’ve got a few more planned early 2021. Cheers 👍
@@LetsMakeaTrip Cant wait
This is an excellent video. Deffo going to try split ticketing in the future. May I ask what camera you use though? Thanks alot :)
Hi CT, yes split-ticketing is the way to go, is easy and gives me great satisfaction in avoiding some of the rip-off fares you *could* be sucked into paying in this country! The camera, well I’d just started using a DJI Osmo Action which I decided was slightly better than the Gopro at the time because it has a front-facing screen which is good for doing the on camera talking bits. I think the new GoPro has two screens now but is quite a bit more expensive. Hopefully, you should notice some improvement over my older videos which I just made with an old iphone6! Thanks for the comment, much appreciated 👍. Mark
Walk from Central to Queen St is simple in 5 minutes than bus...
Hi Martin, yep, know I know the city a bit better I’d definitely walk in future 👍
Were any of the tickets advance purchase, or were they all just standard fares?
nice journey and lovely tones from 170429
Perth is a really interesting Station if you’re ever up that way 👍
@@LetsMakeaTrip don't think so
Whats up with paper tickets
Theres the crewe to inverness sleeper dep crewe 2350 inverness arr 0845
I might try that one day. A lot more expensive unless you're in the seats though possibly.
"Wine and dine" in the trains of the Strathspey railway,
Aviemore No sunday fishing in the river .......
Hi Jaco, I'll bear that in mind, thanks. The Strathspey railway did look worth a visit. I'm not a fisherman but maybe some on here will take heed of the Sunday restrictions. All the best!
Anytime for me
Were there any ticket checks?
A couple later on at Glasgow Queen St and Perth if I remember correctly
Where did you get all your tickets printed off?
Hi Phillip. As I recall, I spent about 10 minutes in front of the ticket machine entering various reference numbers until I ended up with them all!
No it goes to Aberdeen
No you can’t get a train into Glasgow queen street from the south
Gary, thanks mate. Sorry, I thought I’d responded to this but obviously not! Was hoping to get back to Glasgow next week and check out the subway before flying back but obviously things have gone a bit crazy! Hopefully one day. Cheers 👍
You can get a train from crewe to fort william which calls at glasgow queen street low leval at 0548 the caledonian sleeper
The bridge is the branch line to dundee
Hey Gary, thanks for the info on this and the Glasgow QS line. Thinking about that, although Glasgow Central is on the ‘right side of the river’, there’s plenty of similar examples, London for one! I must spend a bit more time in Glasgow though, it looks a fascinating city of trains! I hope you enjoyed the video, I certainly had a great time on that trip. Lots more to come 👍
That bridge brings back some memories of 2015. I stood on the bridge and photographed a few DMUs and then the wife and I ate fish and chips by the river. Happy Days.
@@brianrose234 I think if I lived in Perth (which looks a lovely place btw) I’d be on that bridge all the time!
Hi there bro, is it true that the first train from stirling to inverness is at 5:30am