Train ticket splitting websites - save £ on train fares

Thanks to A to B magazine for pointing out https://www.splitticketing.com/ and https://raileasy.trainsplit.com/. (These are connected sites: the second can be reached via the "Need more options?" link on the first.)

The major breakthrough is that these sites can deal with more types of tickets, and you can buy tickets directly on them. The earlier sites were good for finding a split point, but then you needed to go off to another site to try out the splits on cheaper ticket types, and buy tickets.

My earlier posts on the subject are here http://stibasa.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/tickety-split-improved-version.html and here http://stibasa.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/split-train-tickets-and-save-money.html.

You can read up on the pros and cons of ticket splitting in A to B Issue 105 or on the above mentioned sites, but the sense of ticket splitting is that you buy several tickets for a journey, costing less in total than a ticket for the whole journey, whilst travelling on exactly the same train(s). The websites work this out for you (the train has to stop where your tickets are for) and the savings can be very large.

Tickety Split - improved version

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/split-cheap-train-tickets/

There's now an improved version of tickety split out, which doesn't cover just walk on fares, but advance fares too.

Tickety split works out where you can split your train tickets (not your journey - you use the same train) saving you substantial amounts of money on fares.

Split train tickets and save money

http://splitticket.moneysavingexpert.com/

I saw this useful utitility - Tickety Split - reviewed in A to B magazine. I'm not sure whether fares oracle Barry Doe has reviewed it yet, but I'm sure he will.

A split ticket means instead of buying a ticket from (say) Dorchester to Plymouth, you buy a ticket from Dorchester to Exeter and another from Exeter to Plymouth. You don't have to change trains at the spliiting station (Exeter in this example) - the split is valid if the train stops there.)

Currently Tickety Split only works with walk up single fares, so anyone who really wants to save money on fares can only really use it to uncover where to try out splitting their journey, and then use the information to save on advance fares. Independent rail ticket site redspottedhanky.com says (according to A to B) that "its licence forbids it from selling split tickets, although changes in the pipeline may allow it to offer advice of this kind."

Extending the range of ticket typess that Tickety Split can explore is a work in progress, and given the incredibly complex train fare system in this country, it may be some time before it can handle a really useful range of ticket types, but having internet based information about where these splitting points are must surely start a reform of this paricular "quirk" in the system.