Megatrain

For anyone who knows about and uses megabus, the same company have been slowly expanding the megatrain arm of their business, offering a similar service, only this time with trains. Go figure! In order to offer such cheap travel megabus had to sacrifice a number of comforts, in order that they could offer such cheap tickets. Obviously having to travel by bus also meant the journey took a lot longer, but thanks to megatrains a lot of these issues have vanished. The concept is more or less the same as megabus, but to summarise, megatrain are basically a company who specialises in pre booked travel to and from various major cities in the UK via train, that can ...  Read the complete review

This is a masively under used service! In all my days on trains and talking to people know one know's about the benefits of this place! That is why I am here :D The service I know most about is the train side of things so this is going to be geared towards that. Do not want to blag about something i have no idea about! The service offers cheap rates to travel shorter distances across the country. For example I know my friend can get from Sheffield to Peterborough for £2.50 return! To get the cheap prices you do need to buy in advance- For £1 tickets your looking at 3 or 4 weeks notice. At about 2 weeks the prices go up to around £5- ...  Read the complete review

Mega train is a website which allows cheap travel through out the country. When I mean cheap I mean very cheap! Infact as low as £1!!! The lines that they run tend to be within districts. For example you can not catch a train from newcastle to plymouth all in one go. If you were to use this service for that you would need to plan each step and pay for each step individually... Yes, that is a lot of messing about but if its stupidly cheap it may be worth it? The service gives you a code which you use instead of a ticket. You show this to the conductor, he inputs the code, bob's your uncle! I was nervous about the process the first time- it ...  Read the complete review

Most people are familiar with the Scottish based budget travel company Megabus, run by Stagecoach. The brightly coloured blue and yellow buses are road travel's answer to Ryanair and Easyjet - offering no frills trips at silly prices. However, Stagecoach's more recent foray into the realm of budget train travel is less well known. I would usually use thetrainline.com to buy train tickets (or preferably southwesttrains.co.uk - who do not charge a booking fee) but recently I was buying tickets for a day trip to London and the cheapest price I was quoted, booking well ahead, was well over £100 for 2 people, returning the same day. In desperation I scoured the ...  Read the complete review