Trainline: Train & Bus Tickets 4+

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Description

Welcome aboard Trainline. Travel confidently with Europe’s leading train and coach app.

We’ve made it quick and easy for you to travel across the UK and the rest of Europe by rail and road. Book tickets for Avanti West Coast, GWR, LNER, National Express and more. You can even plan your international trips by train or bus across 45 countries in Europe and the rest of the world, including the UK, France, Italy, Spain and Germany. And if you’re looking for some travel inspiration, why not check our pick of popular journeys?


Plus, you’ll always be in control of your trip thanks to our live train timetable (for UK rail, Trenitalia, Renfe, and SNCF routes), price alerts, mobile tickets / etickets and seat selection (where available).

Get live train times, railcards, mobile tickets / etickets and seat selection. Safe travel is our top priority - use contactless travel and crowd alerts to find out how busy your train is.

Why Trainline?
• Book all your train and coach journeys in one place.
• Compare travel options from 220 rail and coach companies.
• Quickly find the cheapest UK Advance tickets.
• Ask Siri how your journey’s doing.
• Pay in your preferred currency. Available in GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, CAD, CHF, and SEK.
• Get great discounts like GroupSave 34%. (GroupSave is a discount of up to 34% for adults travelling on a single or return journey at Off-Peak or Super Off-Peak times in groups of three to nine people.)
• Skip station queues using tickets on your phone (selected routes).
• Find carriages with available seats.
• Book in advance or on the day of travel.
• Buy your tickets with Apple Pay, PayPal, and all major credit cards and debit cards.

Save money with cheap UK Advance tickets. Once you’ve booked your tickets, save them to your phone and use live train times, platform numbers or delay info to keep your trip on track.

Have you considered coach? Book coach tickets with Trainline and you’ll get air conditioning, free WiFi and VUER – National Express’ onboard entertainment system. Start your search and if there’s a coach available, we’ll show you the options. No need to print tickets either because with etickets, your phone is all you need.
Trust Trainline to get you where you need to be.

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.

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) and Flixbus

You’ll always get the best fare for every journey and with every carrier. So, download your FREE Trainline app and get access to live train times and cheap train and coach tickets across the UK & Europe.

*Average savings on advance fares booked at least one week before day of travel vs Anytime fares purchased on day of travel. Subject to availability. Excludes coach.

To find out more, see our FAQs: https://www.thetrainline.com/en/help/

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• Instagram: @trainline

What’s New

Version 343

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
333.4K Ratings

333.4K 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.

fayce9 ,

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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The developer, thetrainline, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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  • Contact Info
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  • Browsing History
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Sensitive Info
  • Diagnostics

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