Some of you may know
I"ve had a few incidents of late at APAT events. I can neither confirm nor deny whether or not they may have been down to a modicum of intoxication.
Obviously for the Newcastle trip, I"m going to be on my very best behaviour, at least until my captain"s duties have been completed and the winners" trophy is safely secured.
After this however I can foresee a limited and eminently respectable amount of alcohol intake. Also, immediately after getting home from Newcastle, I"m off on my travels again. I"m packing a bag and travelling down to Wiltshire with my sis for a week of walking and genealogical research. So for these reasons I thought it best to leave the car at home and investigate the possibility of letting the train
avoid the driving ban take the strain.
Although the Easter Monday return leg was a reasonable £34, I was dismayed to find the the outbound journey was a less economical £82!
Now I"d heard about the phenomenon of "split-ticketing" (the practice of buying tickets for individual legs of the journey rather than 1 ticket for the whole journey) and thought I"d give it a try.
Well, the Leicester-Newcastle trip involves a change at Derby, so I made that my first port of call.
Leicester-Derby £9.10
There are no further changes but the train from Derby calls at Chesterfield, Sheffield, Wakefield, Leeds, York, Darlington & Durham, en-route to Newcastle. After investigating several options, I decided these were my best:
Derby-Sheffield £8.70
Sheffield-York £7.50
York-Newcastle £12.50
So, a journey which would have cost me £82 is now down to a much more attractive £37.80! And I"m sat on exactly the same trains making the same, solitary change. The only difference being I"ve got three extra tickets in my hand and an extra £44.20 in my back pocket.
Tickets booked. License safe. A great weekend assured!
