(20 Oct 2013, 1:24 pm)cbma06 wrote Went down to York last week for a weeks training, was going to take the car down but It would cost a lot of petrol even though I would get to reclaim my expenses back from the company, I decided to take the pain out of driving down there and looked at the Grand Central Train website and it only cost me £12.50 each way between Hartlepool and York, on the way back I finish my training earlier than I expected and I was booked on the 21:20 from York to Hartlepool arriving at 22:25, I got back to York Station at 5pm and I would of have to wait a few hours, I went into the booking office and see about transferring the ticket to the next Grand Central Station train will would be the 16:50 from London and it only cost me an additional 10p for transferring to that train so I got back into Hartlepool just before 8pm. The prices are not too bad.

Not a bad price, how much in advance did you have to book to get them fares or is that the normal walk on fares?

EDIT: Just looked at website, I see it takes just over an hour from Hartlepool to York, the same time it takes from Newcastle.....