London - Tamworth ... for the Snowdome - again ...

thinking of travelling to Tamworth to try out the Snowdome on Sunday 25th March ...

thetrainline.com gives the price of singles at 33.30 gbp for most of the trains that day - apart from the 08.30 departure, arriving in Birmingham at 10:55, with the connecting bus arriving in Tamworth at 12:05 ...

sometimes singles to a major town are cheaper than connecting journeys or those to smaller towns, but singles to birmingham are all 34 gbp, apart from the same 08:30 departure which is 13.50 gbp ...

virgintrains.co.uk has the same prices for these journeys ...

London - Tamworth ... for the Snowdome

thinking of travelling to Tamworth to try out the Snowdome on Saturday 2nd Dec ...

thetrainline.com gives a return price of 36.30 gbp with a journey time of just over 2 hours ... if you play around with the timings, you can get singles from london - birmingham and for 10 gbp, and the return from birmingham to tamworth for 5.40 gbp, totalling 25.40 gbp ... saving 10.90 gbp !

however, using the viamichelin.com website it estimates that the journeytime (despite a bit of a complicated routing for a couple of pickups) would also take around 2 hours ... and the petrol cost would be 20 quid each way ...

so the moral of the story - even with 2 pax, it's cheper to drive by at least 10 gbp (32gbp if you take the preferred routings) ... and if there are 3 pax, the saving would be between 36.20 and 68.60 gbp ...

travel by train aint cheap !


for the record ... the train details are listed below ...


to get to the snowdome for 1.30pm (and depart around 4.45pm)

dep 11:03 arr 13:08
dep 17:03 arr 19:34

cost 36.30


to get to the snowdome for 3.30pm (and depart around 6.30pm)

dep 13:03 arr 15:08
dep 18:47 arr 21:35

cost 36.30


2 x £10 singles london to birmingham, plus £5.40 for birmingham to tamworth return = 25.40

to get to the snowdome for 3.30pm (and depart around 6.30pm)
dep 13:03 arr 14:36 dep 14:49 arr 15:08
dep 19:03 arr 19:27 dep 20:00 arr 22:32