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Grantham_Mariner
April 15, 2018, 6:47pm

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Decided to go, already have train tickets to London, anyone know the cheapest tickets (breaking route etc) on to Swindon?


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Decided to go, already have train tickets to London, anyone know the cheapest tickets (breaking route etc) on to Swindon?


The only cheap way to do it is to get the National Express coach from Victoria but it takes over 2 hours each way.


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Decided to go, already have train tickets to London, anyone know the cheapest tickets (breaking route etc) on to Swindon?


I've had a look at this.  If you go to splitticketing.co.uk, it looks as if there's a marginal saving (from £47.90 to £46.00) by buying separate London-Reading and Reading-Swindon tickets. Journey takes about an hour.

If you don't mind taking rather longer travelling to save a bit of cash, you could go

12.22 Paddington -> Oxford 13.20 (£8.50 single)
13.37 Oxford -> Swindon 14.29 (change at Didcot) (£11.60 return)
17.11 Swindon -> Oxford 18.16 (change at Didcot)
18.31 Oxford -> Paddington 19.26 (£5.40 single)

Total £25.50

So you can save about £22 if you don't mind taking twice as long getting to/from London (NB some of the tickets are "limited availability" so buy in advance if you plan to do this).

Or you can go with National Express coaches for £13 but it takes 2h15 and you're at the mercy of traffic!
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Decided to go, already have train tickets to London, anyone know the cheapest tickets (breaking route etc) on to Swindon?


This site will always work out the cheapest route unlike virtually all the company web sites and rip off sites like TrainLine

https://www.ticketclever.com/


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I've had a look at this.  If you go to splitticketing.co.uk, it looks as if there's a marginal saving (from £47.90 to £46.00) by buying separate London-Reading and Reading-Swindon tickets. Journey takes about an hour.

If you don't mind taking rather longer travelling to save a bit of cash, you could go

12.22 Paddington -> Oxford 13.20 (£8.50 single)
13.37 Oxford -> Swindon 14.29 (change at Didcot) (£11.60 return)
17.11 Swindon -> Oxford 18.16 (change at Didcot)
18.31 Oxford -> Paddington 19.26 (£5.40 single)

Total £25.50

So you can save about £22 if you don't mind taking twice as long getting to/from London (NB some of the tickets are "limited availability" so buy in advance if you plan to do this).

Or you can go with National Express coaches for £13 but it takes 2h15 and you're at the mercy of traffic!




Thanks for that......

We are on the 12.22 from Paddington to Oxford, but we are leaving the train at Reading for train to Swindon. On return we go Swindon to Reading on 17.31 train an then pick up the  Oxford to Paddington train at Reading.

This way we got back in Paddington at 18.59 which give us 49 minutes to get to Kings Cross.   Worked out £24 each with TwoTogether Railcard.

Say hello if you see us (Me, GollyGTFC, and grandson).


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all electric trains cancell3d from Paddington(No drivers!). !!!! We are on a train as far as Reading. Should get there but how we get back will be a problem.


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