Train Journeys on Monday 17th May to Portsmouth

Times and costs are now available for your likely journeys.
Keith and Maldwyn, who will use either Derby, Nottingham, Long Eaton or East Mids Parkway have little option but to route through London. It is not a long or particularly hazardous trip across London from St Pancras to Waterloo if you know the way (I can provide a route). There is a snag:
Your trip from London Waterloo to Portsmouth must begin before 16:45 or after 19:00.
If the former, you can leave Derby or Notts around 14:00 and arrive into Portsmouth a little after 18:00. The cost is £20.
Alternatively you can wait until about 17:00 from Derby/Notts to get to Pompy around 21:00 for £23.
From Burton on Trent the standard route is via Derby and London while from Birmingham there are a number of routes.
You can catch the 13:10 or 14:10 to London Euston thence over to Waterloo for a train to Portsmouth. Cost £12. This gets you to Portsmouth for about 17:00 or 18:00.
You can catch the 13:03 or 14:03 to Southampton Central and change there for a direct train to Portsmouth. This will cost £19
You can catch the 14:33 or the 18:33 to Reading, then to Guildford and finally to Portsmouth, also for £19.
These costs would be inflated by whatever it cost to get to Brum.
Alternatively, Shawn, I think I would consider asking Mrs B very nicely to take you to Derby or Leicester. Leicester costs are as Derby.
One other idea which has occurred for travel on East Midlands Trains and South West Trains which do the journey from us to London and from London to Portsmouth respectively. Both are owned by Stagecoach so you could look at the www.megatrain.com website to see if you can get any cheap tickets that day. You can book now for 17/5.
Any questions or doubts, ring me or e-mail me or raise the problem at our meet on 12/4.