Trainline: Buy train tickets

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4.7
6.2L reviews
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About this app

Welcome, future Trainliner. Get on board with millions of world-wide users, today, to travel or commute confidently with us ā€“ Europeā€™s leading train and coach app.

Why?
In a matter of clicks youā€™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 ā€“ 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? Check out our travel blogs and suggested ā€œpopular journeysā€.

Why use Trainline to book train and coach tickets?
ā€¢ Book all your train and coach journeys in one place.
ā€¢ Use your Railcard and learn how you can get cheap train tickets.
ā€¢ Auto-split your single ticket into multiple ones to save on longer journeys, with SplitSave.
ā€¢ Compare UK train travel options from 220 rail & coach companies.
ā€¢ Quickly find and buy the cheapest UK Advance tickets.
ā€¢ Pay in your preferred currency. Available in GBP, USD, EUR, AUD, CAD, CHF, and SEK.
ā€¢ Get great discounts like GroupSave for savings up to 34%.
ā€¢ Skip station queues using tickets on your phone (selected routes).
ā€¢ Book in advance or with our Best Price Guarantee for on the day travel.
ā€¢ Buy your tickets with Google Pay, PayPal, and all major credit cards and debit cards.

Why not book coach travel?
Book coach tickets with us and youā€™ll get air conditioning, free WiFi, and VUER ā€“ National Expressā€™ onboard entertainment system. Start a coach search and if thereā€™s a coach available, weā€™ll show you the options. No need to print tickets either ā€˜cause with etickets, your phone is all you need.

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), ƖBB (Austria), SBB (Switzerland), SNCB (Belgium), NS (the Netherlands), Alsa (Spain), First Bus, and Flixbus.

So, download Trainline and get access to everything you need to train across the UK and Europe.

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

*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.

*Refund subject to conditions. UK based customers only. Valid for in-app purchases only, if a lower price than the price on Trainline is found for on the day purchase for the same train (same journey and restrictions, date & time, class, train operator, number and type of passengers and Railcard(s) used if applicable excluding contactless fares) departing from the UK. Subject to contacting us within 5 days of booking with photo evidence containing the information listed. Refund to means of payment used for booking.
Updated on
28 Jan 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, Personal info and 3 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 5 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
6.1L reviews
Rae Green
27 January 2025
This app used to be great, now they have redesigned the menus so much that there's all this extra clutter in the way when you just want to buy a train ticket. The new search function is awful, almost missed my train because I accidentally changed my departing time instead of my return time and there was no way to reset it quickly. It's vague as hell about which bar means what, which was how I ended up changing the time in the wrong place in the first place. Either change it back or try again
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Matt Lee
30 January 2025
Terrible design. Always pops up with explanation of in app ticket even after years of buying. Doesn't offer cheapest option. Searching for train tickets takes about 6 clicks just repeatedly clicking on same icon. You're going to X station pops up rather than the qr code is very annoying! Doesn't have auto options for delay repay. These are all solvable but they're making it worse.
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Ashleigh Mason
27 January 2025
The app is good, the new home page is a bit more annoying then helpful though, and I'm not sure why but my app is so slow! It's not my signal because it just happens everywhere and everything else on my phone works as normal, but the app is just so slow loading my tickets up. Also please please please add a dark mode nearly every app now has this option !!
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What's new

The little things matter

This update lays the rails for essential fixes and improvements.

You might not notice any visual changes, but weā€™ve done some work in the back-end to improve our appā€™s performance.