How to buy cheap UK train tickets...

If like most of us you are constantly bamboozled by the complexity of the UK train ticketing system which seems to operate 'ambush' tactics, penalising late booking, offering wildly differing prices for the same journey from different companies or websites and only making some fares available for miniscule windows of time at 3am on the first Wednesday of the month.

Well, in much the same way that www.seat61.com shed light on how to travel by train abroad, this natty new site helps to mystify the arcane process of booking a reasonably priced train ticket in the UK. Which can only be good news!

From how to get tickets for a £1, to the sneaky tactic of split-ticketing (getting a cheaper fare by booking two singles for the two legs of your journey rather than one overall ticket - I know, daft isn't it?!) the site should prove invaluable for getting a fair fare from the rail companies! Well done to the authors...it goes some way to addressing the 'rip=off' concerns of customers, eloquently illustrated by this protest poster I saw in Oaxacca, Mexico - rough translation 'The Bus company Octopus has stolen my money!'