Rail booking website will split journeys into smaller legs to reduce fares

Loco2 claims its new Pricehack tool could save up to 50% on millions of UK rail journeys

Train booking platform Loco2 has launched a money-saving feature that it says could reduce the costs of one-way tickets by up to 50%.

Pricehack works by splitting journeys into smaller legs and working out the cheapest price for each leg. Split-ticketing, as the process is called, is already available on small, niche sites such as trainsplit.com, splitticketing.com, and ticketysplit.com, but Loco2 says it is the first to make it more accessible to passengers by making the feature an integrated part of its booking process. The company says it will apply to around 200 million UK train journeys, or a third of all journeys (excluding short journeys where it doesn’t apply). It currently applies to one-way routes only, including first class fares, but it will launch on return journeys over the summer. A £1.50 fee is charged on journeys that cost less than £100 and £6 on journeys over £100. The website covers continental Europe, too, but split-ticketing does not apply to those journeys.

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