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Hello, it's Saturday the 16th of October and thanks for joining me, Simon Calder, for the latest on

travel and destinations from the Green List and the Travel Desk of the Independent. Today, I'm going

to be talking about split ticketing, the entirely legal and very useful means of reducing the cost of rail travel.

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Split ticketing has been around, well, let's say, for the last 20 years. What is it exactly?

It is the practice of making a booking for a train journey, very often using just ordinary walk-up

fairs, so not having to book in advance or anything, that will exploit the anomalies in

Britain's incredibly complicated rail fare structure. And if you have a look at many many journeys you will find that

buying it into or more segments is cheaper than a through ticket very straightforward example

where you can save over one third shrewsbury to Liverpool now the anytime fair anytime fair, that's the one you'll charge.

You'll be charged if you go up to the ticket desk in Shrewsbury's lovely station and say,

I'd like to go to Liverpool.

29 pounds 90, please, madam, or sir.

You can have to change trains in Chester.

And so if instead you say to the nice person at the ticket desk, or indeed you book online,

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