Trainline: Train & Bus Tickets

Name: Trainline: Train & Bus Tickets
Rating: 4.9 (358170 reviews)
Author: thetrainline

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Live: Eurostar 7-day sale – 25% off* Eurostar Standard and Plus tickets. Book top routes from London, Paris, Amsterdam and more. Hurry, sale ends midnight June 8th. Welcome, future Trainliner. Get on board with millions of world-wide users, today, to travel or commute confidently with us – Europe’s leading train and coach app.   Why? In a matter of clicks you’ll be booking the best seats in advance or saving money on-the-day with our Best Price Guarantee. And for those who like to stay looped, you can turn on real-time notifications and keep an eye on live timetable tracking. Plus, forgetting, misplacing, or totally destroying your paper tickets becomes a thing of the past when you purchase digital versions through our app! (That goes for Railcards and Season Tickets, too.) With so much to see and do, getting there should be the easy part – and when you book through our app, it is! Book domestic tickets for Avanti West Coast, GWR, LNER, National Express, ScotRail, Southeastern, South Western Railway, and more. Or plan your international trips across 45 countries in Europe, including France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. Need some travel inspo first? We got that covered, too, with travel blogs and suggested “popular journeys”. So, whether you want to book coach seats, buy a Railcard, or get cheap train tickets, you can always rely on our app to get you everywhere. Why use Trainline to book train and coach tickets? • Book all your train and coach journeys in one place. • Plan and book your journey based on your preferred route. • Auto-split your single ticket into multiple ones to save on longer journeys, with SplitSave. • Compare UK train travel options from 220 rail and coach companies. • Quickly find and buy the cheapest UK Advance tickets. • Ask Siri for your journey’s updates. • Pay in your preferred currency. Available in GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, CAD, CHF, and SEK. • Get great discounts like GroupSave for savings up to 34%. • Skip station queues using tickets on your phone (selected routes). • Find carriages with available seats, and the fastest bus route for your journey. • Book in advance or with our Best Price Guarantee for on the day travel. • Buy your tickets with Apple Pay, PayPal, and all major credit cards and debit cards. • Use your Railcard and learn how you can get cheap train tickets. Why not book coach travel? Book coach tickets with us and you’ll get air conditioning, free WiFi, and VUER – National Express’ onboard entertainment system. Start a coach search and if there’s a coach available, we’ll show you the options. Our Domestic Partners: In the UK, we partner with Avanti West Coast, London North Eastern Railway, London North Western Railway, Great Western Railway (GWR), South Western Railway, London Overground, TfL Rail, Gatwick Express, Heathrow Connect, Heathrow Express, Stansted Express, ScotRail, Greater Anglia, East Midlands Trains, West Midlands Railway, Thameslink, Southeastern, Southern Rail, c2c, Caledonian Sleeper, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, Hull Trains, Island Line, Grand Central Railway, Mersey Rail, and TransPennine Express. Our International Partners: Across Europe, you can browse routes with Eurostar (France and Belgium), SNCF (France), TGV Lyria (France), Thalys (France), Renfe (Spain), Trenitalia (Italy), Italo (Italy), Deutsche Bahn (Germany), ÖBB (Austria), SBB (Switzerland), SNCB (Belgium), NS (the Netherlands), Alsa (Spain), First Bus, and Flixbus. No matter who you choose to rail with, you’ll always be able to find the best fares available for every journey. So, download our FREE Trainline app and get access to everything you need to train across the UK and Europe like a pro. Visit our FAQs page to find out more: https://www.thetrainline.com/en/help/ Or, follow us on social: FB: thetrainlinecom TW: /thetrainline IG: @trainline *Book online 14 – 20 Jan for travel from 17 Jan – 31 Mar 2025. Tickets must be bought at least 3-7 days prior to travel, varies by operator. Selected routes only and subject to availability. See full Conditions for details. Booking fees may apply.

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4.9

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358k Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Anyone who’s booked train tickets in the UK knows it can be a labyrinthine task. Am I buying off-peak tickets? What is off-peak? What is “super” off-peak? Am I getting the best deal? We were thrilled to have all this—and more—finally made clear as day by a souped-up Trainline app. It’s become as essential to our train travel as a fully charged phone battery.

Editors’ Choice

Anyone who’s booked train tickets in the UK knows it can be a labyrinthine task. Am I buying off-peak tickets? What is off-peak? What is “super” off-peak? Am I getting the best deal? We were thrilled to have all this—and more—finally made clear as day by a souped-up Trainline app. It’s become as essential to our train travel as a fully charged phone battery.
Good App, but it has v expensive bugs
20/11/2023

Poor train commuter
Generally a great app and helps me to save money on my train tickets. I find it easy and convenient to use. However I have experienced issues when changing journeys online and these often cost me a huge amount of money. Today I discovered I did not need to commute tomorrow, so decided to change my advance ticket. There are two issues that i came across 1) the selected time on the new journey changes from from the time originally selected after you have selected your return journey time, so you have to go back and reset the outbound time. Not a huge issue, but definitely a bug 2) the much more costly issue was the fact that even though I had selected the journey for 21 Nov to change, part way through the process (when I was looking at standard vs first class fares on the payment page) the app changed the journey I was changing from 21 Nov to 28 Nov. It is not possible to check this on the payment page because those details are not shown, so I did not know this had happened until I processed the payment and saw that my return ticket for 28 Nov had been changed instead. I called customer service, but they could not help (unless I could prove the app was at fault, which of course I couldn’t). This bug cost me approx £200, because I had to rebook my journey for 28 Nov and had to pay £40 in admin charges. A very similar thing happened to me before, but I put it down to my own error, even thought I was sure I had selected the right journey. Now that it has happened again, I’m sure it is a bug. My advice is DO NOT CHANGE TICKETS ON THE APP!
Good App, but it has v expensive bugs
20/11/2023

Poor train commuter

Generally a great app and helps me to save money on my train tickets. I find it easy and convenient to use. However I have experienced issues when changing journeys online and these often cost me a huge amount of money. Today I discovered I did not need to commute tomorrow, so decided to change my advance ticket. There are two issues that i came across 1) the selected time on the new journey changes from from the time originally selected after you have selected your return journey time, so you have to go back and reset the outbound time. Not a huge issue, but definitely a bug 2) the much more costly issue was the fact that even though I had selected the journey for 21 Nov to change, part way through the process (when I was looking at standard vs first class fares on the payment page) the app changed the journey I was changing from 21 Nov to 28 Nov. It is not possible to check this on the payment page because those details are not shown, so I did not know this had happened until I processed the payment and saw that my return ticket for 28 Nov had been changed instead. I called customer service, but they could not help (unless I could prove the app was at fault, which of course I couldn’t). This bug cost me approx £200, because I had to rebook my journey for 28 Nov and had to pay £40 in admin charges. A very similar thing happened to me before, but I put it down to my own error, even thought I was sure I had selected the right journey. Now that it has happened again, I’m sure it is a bug. My advice is DO NOT CHANGE TICKETS ON THE APP!
Don’t download
24/08/2025

Angry@Trains
Believe it or not, it was a member of staff that works at the train station that actually informed me that this app is not recommended for train ticket purchases as they make you pay more than necessary to get from point A to point B; I had to deal with a massive delay being stuffed into a very overcrowded train for nearly 3 hours forced to stand up in the door ways with other members of the public who were stood up even longer than I was! We were trampled, pushed and had to help each other on and off the train to ensure everyone was safe while the train conductor heckled us for not being able to make space. After I complained to the app about having needing a refund after such a delay, I was told I had to fill out a form - however the tickets were from two companies so it made things very difficult to get my money back. But it gets better! I’m currently writing this at the train station as my train was cancelled, why I’m mad about this is because: 1) I had to pay over £100 to get a connecting ticket so I can make my way back home! 2) I was not notified of this delay at a suitable time, hence not being able to make other plans back home. 3) A direct train ride home would be over 10 hours, 5 hours of which is myself and my partner stuck in a city till 5:35am with no shelter! Honestly, this app is horrendous, makes travelling severely overcomplicated and such lack communication and proper information, has ruined my weekend experience!

Developer Response
Hi there, Sorry to hear about your journey! We aim to notify all affected passengers when their service has been disrupted, however this isn't always possible. As a third-party retailer we can only send out alerts when the operator have updated us directly. Please note that when you have made it to your destination, your tickets are no longer refundable - this is the case regardless of where you book your tickets or the disruption encountered. In these cases, Delay Repay is the process the UK Rail Industry have in place and we must adhere to this. Thanks, Leah
Don’t download
24/08/2025

Angry@Trains

Believe it or not, it was a member of staff that works at the train station that actually informed me that this app is not recommended for train ticket purchases as they make you pay more than necessary to get from point A to point B; I had to deal with a massive delay being stuffed into a very overcrowded train for nearly 3 hours forced to stand up in the door ways with other members of the public who were stood up even longer than I was! We were trampled, pushed and had to help each other on and off the train to ensure everyone was safe while the train conductor heckled us for not being able to make space. After I complained to the app about having needing a refund after such a delay, I was told I had to fill out a form - however the tickets were from two companies so it made things very difficult to get my money back. But it gets better! I’m currently writing this at the train station as my train was cancelled, why I’m mad about this is because: 1) I had to pay over £100 to get a connecting ticket so I can make my way back home! 2) I was not notified of this delay at a suitable time, hence not being able to make other plans back home. 3) A direct train ride home would be over 10 hours, 5 hours of which is myself and my partner stuck in a city till 5:35am with no shelter! Honestly, this app is horrendous, makes travelling severely overcomplicated and such lack communication and proper information, has ruined my weekend experience!
Developer Response 28/08/2025
Hi there, Sorry to hear about your journey! We aim to notify all affected passengers when their service has been disrupted, however this isn't always possible. As a third-party retailer we can only send out alerts when the operator have updated us directly. Please note that when you have made it to your destination, your tickets are no longer refundable - this is the case regardless of where you book your tickets or the disruption encountered. In these cases, Delay Repay is the process the UK Rail Industry have in place and we must adhere to this. Thanks, Leah
I just wanted to change my email
20 May

Breinndead
Wanted to update my email but keep my railcard. Train line website suggested it can be done through the app. There is no where in the app to do so. Instead logged into the website. Tried to get my email there and it said that my new email was already an account. Fine I’ve made an account with my new email before but couldn’t transfer my railcard. I log into that account through the app to delete the account. There is a delete account button but clicking it gives a failed message. I think it can’t delete it while I’m logged into the app so I log out of the app and into the website. There is no delete account option on the website. My solution I create a temporary email change my new email account to use that email then log out and back into my main account through the website and change my account to my new email. This works. Clearly there’s a few flaws in how the systems meant to work so I go to Trainline support to flag this issue in hopes of it being resolved. The support page asks what type of journey you need help with and asks for your booking details. No option I can find to report any kind of technically issue. So now it’s a review. Changing your email shouldn’t be this hard and deleting your account should not be impossible.

Developer Response
Hi there, sorry about your experience. I'd recommend reaching out to our Customer Service team about transferring a railcard to another account. You can find their contact details here > bit.ly/4m0ZNK7 Once done, you can request to delete your account via our Privacy Policy page here > https://bit.ly/4aWt0lc Thanks, Lorcan
I just wanted to change my email
20 May

Breinndead

Wanted to update my email but keep my railcard. Train line website suggested it can be done through the app. There is no where in the app to do so. Instead logged into the website. Tried to get my email there and it said that my new email was already an account. Fine I’ve made an account with my new email before but couldn’t transfer my railcard. I log into that account through the app to delete the account. There is a delete account button but clicking it gives a failed message. I think it can’t delete it while I’m logged into the app so I log out of the app and into the website. There is no delete account option on the website. My solution I create a temporary email change my new email account to use that email then log out and back into my main account through the website and change my account to my new email. This works. Clearly there’s a few flaws in how the systems meant to work so I go to Trainline support to flag this issue in hopes of it being resolved. The support page asks what type of journey you need help with and asks for your booking details. No option I can find to report any kind of technically issue. So now it’s a review. Changing your email shouldn’t be this hard and deleting your account should not be impossible.
Developer Response 25 May
Hi there, sorry about your experience. I'd recommend reaching out to our Customer Service team about transferring a railcard to another account. You can find their contact details here > bit.ly/4m0ZNK7 Once done, you can request to delete your account via our Privacy Policy page here > https://bit.ly/4aWt0lc Thanks, Lorcan

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