Trainline: Train & Bus Tickets 4+

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Description

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. No need to print tickets either ‘cause with etickets, your phone is all you need.

Sit tight, with Avanti West Coast, GWR, ScotRail, First Bus, and more, you’ll be spoilt for choice thanks to our array of UK train and coach providers.

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/
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What’s New

Version 350

The little things matter.

Bug fixes and changes to some of our tech should make our app snappier than ever.

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
341.3K Ratings

341.3K Ratings

Editors’ Notes

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.

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Winning Winnie!

The journey was so tense and exciting racing in traffic towards my new adventurous life with my honeysuckle betrothed - finally someone who understood every fibre of my being - right down to my love for the very roots of Pooh bear. My heart pulsed vibrantly in my chest until I realised it was my electric toothbrush instead! Every nerve and cell was on edge and yet I could still enjoy zooming on the fast train across 160 miles of beautiful British countryside. Was my story going to end the same, burying my ashes of the past? As I searched the treetops for my titanium strength while my stomach lurched and my heavy chest felt like it was being cracked with a vice like retractor ripping my body apart. The pain was excruciating! How could I survive this? Stepping anxiously onto the bridge I caught his sweet smouldering eyes as they met mine and those dimples simply melted my heart and we zipped into the zip car of love . Trevor Noah - therapy for life! Woohoo! Love you darling!

DafyddSS ,

Awful Customer Service and They Removed Free Exchange Policy without Notification

Trainline used to have a fee free exchange policy for advanced tickets but they secretly removed it in September without any notification on their website or on the app. I usually buy more tickets than I need for flexibility, and then change them the day before traveling if I don’t feel like commuting the next day. I found out this month that they are charging £15 per round trip for exchange and now I am forced to go into the office to utilize my tickets. Total lost is around £200.

You can’t even find their customer service email on their website and I had to find it via google. The team is obviously based offshore as all their emails were sent at 3am. They don’t have a complaint procedure and no matter what you say, their response is always a polite fxxx off.

The only reason I used this app and paid booking fee is because they provide free exchange, now that the policy is gone and I’ve had such a bad experience dealing with them, I will not use them again. I am sure there are some other apps that don’t charge booking fee and have lower exchange cost. TrainPal is a good alternative for now. I’ve told everyone around me about this and everyone who was using Trainline are switching to other apps like TrainPal.

Developer Response ,

Hello, thanks for leaving a review. To encourage passengers to return to rail travel after the height of the COVID pandemic, the rail industry introduced the “Book with Confidence” policy.
This enabled passengers to exchange their Advance Single tickets fee-free, should their plans change. The industry ended this policy in November 2022 however, Trainline made the decision to continue to waive the exchange fees for all Advance tickets until early September 2023. Those fees have now been reintroduced. Thanks, Jamie

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