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Just looking at trains back from Leicester and there seems to be 2 problems.
1. RMT have announced a cross rail strike on Sat 19th Aug - not sure if that affects trains from Cardiff to Leicester
2. Every train coming back from Leicester to Cardiff says sold out or not available.
I was looking at the train line website
£27 on the coach, 18 seats remaining
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The Trainsplit system is pretty clever. As I am starting off from Yatton on Saturday but returning home to Taunton, I bought a single to Cardiff from Yatton and another single from Cardiff to Taunton. The latter single consists of 4 electronic tickets i.e. Cardiff to Newport return*, Newport to Bristol and Bristol to Taunton.
*I sent an email to Trainsplit as to why one of the three legs is a return ticket and I received a very quick reply stating that their system had calculated that it was cheaper to have a return on that particular leg even though it wouldn't be used. They think that the official system they tap onto and which belongs to the train companies is pretty dopey.
P.S. Even if you have 3 tickets for a journey it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to change trains!
A new one to me so useful for future reference. I usually split my ticket myself if I take the train. Does their ticketing address the problem of having a ticket from a station the train didn't stop at? I know some have had issues with that in the past as it invalidates the ticket.
Scenario would be for example - you are travelling Taunton to Cardiff, but you buy a ticket from Taunton to Bristol and a Bristol to Cardiff ticket as it works out cheaper. However, if you then get on a train at Taunton to travel to Cardiff that doesn't stop in Bristol your Bristol to Cardiff ticket is not valid.
websites like https://www.splitmyfare.co.uk/ (that I mention above) plan the journey as if you were changing at those stations. It's often 15 - 20% cheaper. And we have a railcard.
Went to Glasgow and back a couple of weeks ago, very affordable compared to some of the stories that people have to pay hundreds for tickets.
What a stupidly complicated and expensive railway system we have.