January Seat Sale 2023 terms and conditions

  • Promotional seat sale is for the lowest pricepoints for Advance fare ticket(s), discounted by 50% on one-way tickets and subject to availability.
  • Promotion booking period will run from from 10.00 on Monday 16 January until 23.00 on Monday 6 February 2023 or until all Sale tickets have been sold, whichever is sooner.
  • 50,000 standard class seats available to purchase.
  • Promotion may end sooner if ticket allocation sells out – when they’re gone, they’re gone.
  • Promotional travel period from Tuesday 17 January 2023 until 23.59 on Tuesday 14 March 2023.
  • Available to purchase via the Chiltern Railways website and mobile app – available to download from Apple App Store and Google Play.
  • Tickets from £3.20 one-way available for the promotional period on Chiltern Railway direct services in both direction between London Marylebone and Birmingham Snow Hill, Birmingham Moor Street, Banbury, Dorridge, Leamington Spa, Solihull, Warwick, Warwick Parkway.
  • Tickets from £2.70 one-way available for the promotional period on Chiltern Railway direct services in both direction between London Marylebone, and Bicester North, Islip, Oxford, Oxford Parkway.
  • Promotional Advance tickets are not available for stations between Aylesbury Vale Parkway and Harrow-on-the-Hill, or between Aylesbury and Monks Risborough.
  • Advance ticket(s) are only valid for the day and travel time shown on your ticket(s), travelling on Chiltern Railways plus connecting Train Companies where applicable.
  • Advance ticket(s) can be purchased up to 21.00 the day before travel via our website and mobile app.
  • Advance ticket(s) are available on selected routes only and are subject to availability.
  • All Advance tickets are sold as single (one way) tickets.
  • Advance ticket(s) are only valid for the day and travel time shown on your ticket(s), travelling on Chiltern Railways plus connecting Train Companies where applicable.
  • Changes of travel date and time are permitted up until the time of departure of the first booked train shown on your ticket(s), with a £10 admin fee plus any difference in fare payable per single ticket. The origin, destination and Train Company or route shown on the ticket(s) must remain the same. After this time, your ticket has no value and a new ticket must be purchased.
  • You may not start, break and resume, or end your journey at an intermediate station except to change to/from appropriate connecting trains where these are shown on your ticket(s) or other official itinerary.
  • Advance tickets are non-refundable.
  • There may be rare occasions where the cheaper Advance ticket(s) become available closer to the time of travel, for example if a group booking is cancelled and extra seats have become available. Please note that in these circumstances Advance tickets have already been bought and cannot be refunded in part or in full.
  • Railcards and other discounts cannot be used in conjunction with the promotional seat sale.
  • Availability is subject to specific travel exclusions across some routes due to engineering improvement works. Exclusions to travel and restrictions apply on certain journeys. These include 1 February, 3 February, 4 February, 5 February, 19 February, 26 February. These are subject to change.
  • In the event of industrial action, some journeys may also be removed and subject to change.
  • Advance fare terms and conditions apply to these promotional tickets, please visit the advance fare terms and conditions page to learn more.

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