What are Split Train Tickets

 

Splitting Train Tickets is when, instead of just one more expensive through ticket, you purchase separate tickets for two or more sectors of the rail route you wish to travel without affecting your travel options in any way.

 

For example, if you wanted to travel from Station A to Station D, you would expect to buy a ticket direct from A to D. However, you may find it a lot cheaper to buy a ticket from A to B, and another from B to C and still another from C to D for a cheaper combined train ticket price. This is especially true when not all sectors of your journey are during peak time.

 

Use the splittickets.com journey planner to automatically do the work for you by searching the entire National Rail fares database for every possible permutation of travel to identify the best of any available split ticketing options for the train route and at the times that you select.

 

If this all sounds too good to be true look at these recent examples of money saving split tickets found by splitickets.com:-

 

Example 1. CARDIFF to NEWCASTLE 18/05/20 same day return Total adults: 1 Total children: 0 Station Fare: £294.00 Split Ticket Fare: £114.40 Saving of £179.60 or 61%	Example 2. LEEDS to PLYMOUTH 18/05/20 next day return Total adults: 1 Total children: 0 Station Fare: £145.00  Split Ticket Fare: £98.50 Saving of £46.50 or 32%
Example 3. NORWICH to LONDON 18/05/20 anytime return. Total adults: 1 Total children: 2 Station Fare: £105.70  Split Ticket Fare: £58.20 Saving of £46.50 or 41%	Example 4. DERBY to LIVERPOOL 18/05/20 same day return Total adults: 1 Total children: 0 Station Fare: £61.50  Split Ticket Fare: £20.70 Saving of £40.80 or 66%

 

So, by buying several tickets that in combination make up the whole of your rail route, you could massively reduce your travel cost and you still travel on the same train, at the same time and most probably in the same seat. This is what split ticketing is all about!

 

 

Split Train Tickets Are Legal (and can save you a lot of money)

 

Split ticketing is allowed and it is perfectly legal. The National Conditions of Travel clearly state that you may use more than one ticket to complete a train journey provided that "the train you are in calls at each station where you change from one ticket to another". You also do not have to leave the train and get back on it in between the start and end of your journey.

 

This means that split ticketing is allowed and legal on the National Rail network. For more detailed information on this click here.

 

About Splittickets.com

 

Splittickets.com is the original online split train ticketing web site and the first to offer completely automated, and more importantly, genuine moneysaving split train ticket reservations.

 

Book moneysaving split train tickets using the journey planner above the same way you would ordinarily book your train tickets online. The only difference is that in place of just booking the more expensive through train tickets our system will first determine if cheaper split ticket options exist for the rail route and train times you have selected and then offer those for you.

 

Splittickets.com is a free service aimed at helping the general public lawfully pay less for rail journeys. We do however charge a nominal percentage of any additional savings we find you from splitting your train ticket. For example, if our service finds you additional savings totaling £46.00 we will charge you a service fee of £6.90, you will however then still pay £39.10 less than you otherwise could have for your train tickets without using our service. If we cannot find you any split train ticket savings we will not charge you any fee.