Cheap Rail Tickets’ Tips – Buy Your Tickets Early
You may already be aware that if you book your tickets early and you can get cheaper train fares, but the cheap train tickets don’t hang around long. So in order to ensure you get the bargains you need to book your tickets specifically 12 weeks in advance of travel.
The reason for this is that Network Rail set the timetable exactly 12 weeks in advance and this is usually when tickets are made available.
The Trainline have a ticket alert system which will email you the moment a specific journey becomes available, which will usually be the cheapest fares.
Goto: http://www.thetrainline.com/ticketalert/