£99 First Class London to Edinburgh train tickets

I was down at the Business Travel Show at Earls Court on Tuesday, of which more to follow. This is the best offer that caught my eye, but booking will be a little tricky. East Coast Trains is running a promotion called ‘try before you [...]

East Coast Rewards gets even better

In my long post on train ticket reward schemes last week, I explained East Coast Rewards. As I said then, if you would be interested in redeeming for travel on the East Coast line, then booking your tickets via the East Coast website (whatever train [...]

How to get the cheapest price and maximum rewards when booking train travel (part 2)

Two days ago I looked at the various ways of booking UK train tickets.  My conclusion is that the cheapest option – assuming that your train company does not offer an exclusive discount on its own website – was Southern Railway. They offer 6% cashback [...]

How to get the cheapest price and maximum rewards when booking train travel (part 1)

(EDIT:  Unfortunately, the Southern Railways deal with Quidco discussed in this post was withdrawn in January 2013.) Head for Points is, of course, primarily about collecting airline and hotel points. However, most of us probably spend some time on trains as well so I thought it [...]