cheapest public transport from Newcastle to Essex

[trikey]

Buy a 75 in Newcastle, drive it back home then sell it, you’ll double your money with the north south divide!!

[NigelOBB]

Originally Posted by FLYING BANANA

There's always the Pony Express system operated on here...............

Took the words out of my mouth Bob.

If you put a rear arm on my Connie you can use that, 😬😬😬

Seriously though there a single tonight Virgin are showing £46 to kings cross, on lner [IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180730/6bbf1370e9a522114cb18c0bd755fe3e.png[/IMGo

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[NigelOBB]

Originally Posted by NigelOBB

Took the words out of my mouth Bob.

If you put a rear arm on my Connie you can use that, 😬😬😬

Seriously though there a single tonight Virgin are showing £46 to kings cross, on lner [IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180730/6bbf1370e9a522114cb18c0bd755fe3e.png[/IMGo

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It might also be cheaper to get a ticket from Newcastle to york then Kings X. I’ve done it before on the same train from Durham, saved £15. Railcards are the way forward though

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[WillyHeckaslike]

Grand Central run several trains a day from Sunderland to Kings Cross with prices starting from as little as £16.40 when you book in advance. Click

Sunderland is only ~ 20mins away from Newcastle via car and not much more via the local Metro system.

Edit: Just noticed that Grand Central might also serve Newcastle so boarding the train there might be an option. Also noticed a sample price of £38.70 for 8 August afternoon.

[Best_of_British]

Originally Posted by trikey

Buy a 75 in Newcastle, drive it back home then sell it, you’ll double your money with the north south divide!!

Trikey is on to something here, much better value up in Scotland, just they might be rotted from salty roads.

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[marinabrian]

Originally Posted by Best_of_British

Trikey is on to something here, much better value up in Scotland, just they might be rotted from salty roads.

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Yeah, but Rick isn't travelling to Scotland though is he

Brian

[Rick-sta]

Haha thanks for all the suggestions guys we've decided to just return home via coach. Something different. Think we'll be going with megabus.

I was actually considering buying a 75 just to drive home in and sell lol

Thanks all

[stevestrat]

Don't want to rub salt in but I really appreciate my free rail travel. If you're an old f@rt like me and did over 25 years in the industry you retain it for life. Because I started with BR I can step on anybodies train unlike someone starting with a company post privatisation, they only get travel on their own services or a company with a reciprocal agreement.

[grivas]

Originally Posted by Rick-sta

Hi all,

Anyone on here good at finding the cheapest train tickets? I need to book a train ticket from Newcastle back home to Stanford Le Hope station in Essex for 2 of us. So far all i can find are train tickets for £70 each 1 way! absolute rip off!

Flight prices are even more of a joke, £170 each. I've flown cheaper flights to Europe!

And they wonder why the majority drive rather than using public transport outside of london... Driving up to Newcastle is going to take around £70 of diesel and that's with 2 people in the car.

any help would be much appreciated

I feel for you mate the public transport in the UK is not fit for purpose and long overdue for replacement, note i did say replacement and not upgrade, it is slow expensive inefficient chaotic and positively out of date we need a fast efficient cheap well ran public transport designed and built as well as operated by people who actually give a **** as opposed to morons interested only in profits and knighthoods.
We need to go to Japan to learn how to do it, any culture that apologises to customers when trains depart a station by 11 seconds too early tells you a lot, the Victorians were able to tell the correct time by the way trains operated we haven't got a clue, my advise is drive.

[trikey]

Originally Posted by Rick-sta

we've decided to just return home via coach.

https://youtu.be/bc6qFpbAgwM