Trainline: Buy train tickets

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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 – 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? Check out our travel blogs and suggested “popular journeys”.

Why use Trainline to book train and coach tickets?
• Book all your train and coach journeys in one place.
• Use your Railcard and learn how you can get cheap train tickets.
• Auto-split your single ticket into multiple ones to save on longer journeys, with SplitSave.
• Compare UK train travel options from 220 rail & coach companies.
• Quickly find and buy the cheapest UK Advance tickets.
• 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).
• Book in advance or with our Best Price Guarantee for on the day travel.
• 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 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.

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.

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/
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*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.

Ratings and reviews

My tickets cost less at the train station than on the app. I needed to change or refund my ticket. I've tried to get to the page to do it for forty-five minutes (to the point where I had to buy a new ticket). The whole internet was working, but not that page. Infuriating! Edit: I've upgraded to 2 stars because the app has all of the train times. It's not the only one, but it does it. Also, I managed to get a refund for the ticket but only after trying to change it for 2 days.

At some point the last few months, something went wrong with this app. I can use it once, and it would work nicely, but from then onwards, when I want to buy tickets again, I get an "Something went wrong error", and the only way to fix it is by uninstalling and re-installing the app (android). Extremely dissapointing. UPDATE: Workaround applied. Phone upgraded. App updated many times. Still doesn't work after the first use. Switched to Uber trains

Update 3/8. Still getting the run around. Tried to cancel a 2nd class train ticket before departure. No one answering phones so sent a request via the app, a ticket was opened. By evening my ticket has not been canceled, called customer service and they said since the train had left/arrived they could not help. Asked me to email a screenshot of my attempt to cancel. Still no answer. Guess I'm out 250euros but if so please folks don't trust Trainline. If they sort this out I'll update my review.

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 we’ve done some work in the back-end to improve our app’s performance.