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Just put in the departure point and leave the destination vacant and it will offer a selection of places. Now whether there are any available at the time you want to travel is another thing entirely!

Just looked at one of them (Trainsplit) and it clearly showed when a split ticket was (marginally) cheaper and when the sale tickets were cheaper. But the overall effect was a much greater choice of...

Has everyone who might be interested picked up on this year's Great British Rail Sale? Purchase by 29 Jan, or when the discounted quota runs out, for travel by 15 March.

First of the "New Year Sales" on Great Western - book by 10 Jan for travel up to 26 April.

Northern as well - travel from £1 (if you can find one)

For once a fairly accurate article - daily travel in an around London not greatly affected as daily cap cheaper anyway, but through rail journeys from outside Greater London become more...

Chiltern Railways have a half price offer on selected advance tickets for travel up to 14 March - book by 6 Feb. A cheap way of getting from London to Oxford or Birmingham and vv.

Their website is not written at all well, but if you dig far enough, this is hidden in the FAQs:

Buy your ticket from a ticket machine at these West Yorkshire rail stations:
Leeds, Batley,...

Great Western also have a sale on until 17 Jan, for travel up to 31 March

The Northern sale mentioned above ends today

Too early for any rail company offers yet, while the government is still forcing them to do everything they can to deter people actually travelling, however Travelodge have just unleashed "a million...

Some good news for a change - Great Western Railway has a sale on for the next 9 days for travel up to 3 April.
https://www.gwr.com/sale

Not recommended - The 4 coach CrossCountry train from Tamworth was so full it was leaving people behind last weekend!!

The major Kings Cross work should finish by the end of February, then it will settle down a bit. September and next winter don't look good though. https://eastcoastupgrade.co.uk/the-programme/.
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^^^What he said!

They are not going to offer cheap fares when they have a severely restricted service - See https://www.lner.co.uk/travel-information/travelling-later/kings-cross-upgrade/. And as...

In theory advance tickets are sold 12 weeks ahead (when the actual timetable should be finalised allowing for engineering works etc), however with the ongoing disruption to various operators and...

Travelodge are having one of their sales, with 20% off for selected dates/venues for bookings until 01 Jan. The discount code is 2020.

Just grabbed one for £22 !

Same trains, although the Liverpool Street ones are shorter until the tunnel opens, and indeed no toilets at all on board. Yet another decision by civil servants I am afraid - the official line is...

Indeed, and even then only the TfL Rail ones (the Purple trains) which take 55-58 minutes and only run half-hourly (4 an hour in peak). And perhaps more importantly for those with Freedom passes on...

Trying to remain zipped on this one, but suffice it to say that 80% of problems on the railways are attributable to interference by civil servants and/or politicians, so sadly any further...

Abellio is of course a subsidiary of Dutch State Railways and, whilst not being an apologist for them, the lack of any decision to replace HSTs is squarely the responsibility of the D(a)fT who...

Is for advance tickets during September - selected journeys and on their own trains only, but a great opportunity. website

Hey, try and keep up mate! The first of Northern's 101 new trains started running this week.

Not for an actual threat but when a 'suspect package' was reported. Mind you, the one occasion I actually reported one, after about 10 minutes a special branch guy appeared, ripped it open,...

It is the nationally agreed procedure for most public transport and is triggered automatically when a fire alarm is set off to alert staff without alarming passengers. Hopefully someone will...

Not sure what the first problem was, although does seem to be unrelated, but they had just got everything running again when the wires came down. Where Network Rail is concerned, I'd go for cock-up...