Keeping the price of your rail travel down.

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Errr. so it is. Sorry Mods, delete please.

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Maybe a bit about it being even cheaper with an off-peak ticket Pad-Did but only on certain trains?

Yes, maybe I could have added more to the thread, Chris, but as I recall I was trying to explain a series of specific examples rather than give an overall explanation that got lost in a flood of "if"s and "however"s.

There is another section in my original post which suggest you travel offpeak if you can, and I think that sorta covers the extra bits your asking for ...

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It's perfectly simple. If you're not getting your hair cut, you don't have to move your brother's clothes down to the lower peg. You simply collect his note before lunch, after you've done your scripture prep, when you've written your letter home, before rest, move your own clothes onto the lower peg, greet the visitors, and report to Mr. Viney that you've had your chit signed. You are then entitled to buy, so long as no fewer than thirteen days (not including Michaelmas Day, unless it is a full moon) have elapsed since your wife began her premature labour, to buy a ticket for a train at 3.20AM to a station near to London Waterloo, unless QPR lose by more than 3 goals, or the NASDAQ index rises (nuclear power excepted) by less than four points above the Mirabel rate, for a price equal to (or less than) the increase in price of your electricity bill in percentage terms, unless you change at Swindon. Or not.
You can always buy two single tickets to and from Paddington, and an off-peak return to Didcot Parkway to keep costs down if you are travelling from Bristol.
Or so it seems. Not easy, is it?