On 2015-12-05 22:48:58 +0000, Paul Corfield said:

On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 18:53:25 +0000, eastender wrote:

Take the point about booking to/from Dalston - this just hadn't occured to us.

A quick look at the fares at brfares.com for Wigan - Dalston and Wigan
- Euston shows about £2.80 difference on the std class Saver return
which is way less than the return fare by LU & Overground. The ticket
to Dalston includes tube travel as required (cross symbol is shown
against the route description).

One other difference that I don't entirely understand is that there
are more advance discounted fares to Euston than to Dalston.

Thanks. With a student card his fare Wigan to Euston (single) was just
£19, but he had to get a late train.

E.