East Coast travel on New Years Day

[donnievic]

Any news on this yet as cheap tickets are due on sale end of next week or so

[silent majority]

I spoke to my colleague a couple of days ago and he was due to speak to them again. I'll ring him again in the morning.

[andysly]

Definitely, if not having to work

[Padge_DRFC]

How much are tickets likely to be? Usually pay 14 quid return with a railcard to London.

[Jenny]

The joys of young persons rail cards eh! I used to be able to commute between Doncaster and London for only slightly more than the cost between Doncaster and Leeds...

If you book in far enough in advance, an adult single to London is £10 - worth noting that there are still plenty of cheap tickets for the rearranged Charlton game in November too.

[graingrover]

Another forward thinking idea !
May I respectfully suggest you make sure you know the FULL ID of those that take up the offer to prevent the unseemly behaviour often associated with football specials in the past.Specials seem to attract cliques of yobs with cans . 
       

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

I got return to London next week for 11 quid. They are there if you look hard. Only booked it last week too.

[not on facebook]

The joys of young persons rail cards eh! I used to be able to commute between Doncaster and London for only slightly more than the cost between Doncaster and Leeds...

If you book in far enough in advance, an adult single to London is £10 - worth noting that there are still plenty of cheap tickets for the rearranged Charlton game in November too.

Them persil washing power british Rail Ticket offers were the dogs b*llocks back in the mid 1980s.

Think it was you had to collect 3 tokens from the back Of persil washing power boxes,then fill in a form and take down to doncaster train station.

It meant that you could Get to kingsX for the normall fare £8.20 back then but yer mate went free.no age or status restrictions,it was a football lads Dream and everyone was asking  Their mams to Get extra boxes Of persil washing from the big super market weekly shop.

[Mustapha-Dump]

Jenny would you mind directing me the right way for these cheap charlton train tickets please?

[RedJ]

Jenny would you mind directing me the right way for these cheap charlton train tickets please?

http://www.railcard.co.uk/ go to 16-25. £30 but you get 30% off each journey. Pays for itself if you travel by rail a lot.

[Jenny]

I always use the east coast website when booking trains as they have no booking fees and generally the cheapest (plus you can earn loyalty points - 12 months between Doncaster & London resulted in lots of free journeys).

www.eastcoast.co.uk

The 15:53 down (and lots of trains before it) and the 23:30 back are still £10 as I type.

If you get a YP rail card it goes down to about £6.35 from memory.

[bigdonnybob]

Yes, Jenny, I just priced it up with my senior Railcard and it comes out at £14-90 + booking fee on Trainline.com, I looked on there because that 2330 departure didnt show when I looked on East Coast site.

[donnievic]

Just booked 11 tickets for New Year's Day

[silent majority]

Do you mind saying how much you've paid?

The deal we were offered from East coast didn't look particularly attractive and we've gone back and complained. They initially offered to provide/reserve one carriage for the use of DRFC fans on one particular train. If memory serves me right it was a 10.30 train down and 20.35 train back but at a cost of £49.

That wasn't what we were negotiating when we started but they have used the fact it was a train on New Years Day as the reason to bump up the price I believe.

[RedRover45]

£20 return I think

[Jenny]

Too much Martin.

You can do it for about £22 on the East Coast website at the minute.

[donnievic]

Yeah Martin £10 each way 2 single tickets 10.25 from Doncaster and 20.30 back from kings cross the return train is actually  run by hull trains service aswell

[Pintolager]

It's only my opinion, but is the fact that it is on New Year's Day only part of the reason for the price of £49? Could it also be that it is a football special, that the price you are quoted is higher?

Keep at 'em SM 

[Jenny]

The prices are already going up - no £10 tickets on the 20:30 train now.

[donnievic]

Just looked again and although prices have gone up they have just put a few more later trains on back between 9 and half 11 at £10 but you can actually get a discount on a group booking now aswell,most you can book at one time is 9 people and is coming up at 176.85 at 19.65 each

[donnievic]

You can even get 9 back at the cost of £67 around 9pm train or later but around 110 getting down there

[Pintolager]

There's also a train at 9.54 down to King's Cross for a tenner

[silent majority]

It's only my opinion, but is the fact that it is on New Year's Day only part of the reason for the price of £49? Could it also be that it is a football special, that the price you are quoted is higher?

Keep at 'em SM 

The point was that we would encourage football supporters to use the train and self police by using the SLOs and ticket purchase through organised groups therefore taking the initiative in a positive way. They would relax the regulations they use against football supporters and provide reserved carriages at seat prices that would reflect the ones currently available. They haven't done that.

[Pintolager]

Fair point, I understand where you're coming from

[DN5Rover]

I paid £26 today. Travel down 9:25 returning at 20:30.

[CusworthRovers]

Just paid £60 for 4 return tickets. 2 Adults, 2 Juniors on a family railcard. Good times too.

Do us a favour you crazy kids. Don't buy all the match day tickets and leave me feeling deflated having to leave Gods Country for no reason.

 

[LINCrover2]

Would be extremely interested and so would 2/3 others I travel with.

Would be brilliant if the FSF can pull this off!

 

[CraigyBoy]

Looks like the best option is to buy your tickets privately and then travel down to the match without the hassle historically associated with the old time "specials" from yesteryear. Why anyone would want to sit with people singing and lurching about on the way to the match is anyone's guess?
Footy is changing, despite what some people might want to think.