thetrainline.com

I don't many train journeys but when I do, I never cease to be shocked and amazed at the never ending price rises. I thought we were hitting deflation mr train operator!. Unfortunately I don't control the prices of these train fares but what I can do is search for the cheapest prices I can find for any given journey. This is of course where trainline come in. When attempting to make some real savings on train fares, the key approach is to book very early, I had noticed advanced bookings before but had not really paid them close attention. However now I have, I appreciated the huge savings which can be made on all manner of journeys including 60% plus savings ...  Read the complete review

Many train tickets across the UK cost more than plane tickets to Europe - so with this is mind, I am always trying to find a cheap option. The website, moneysavingexpert.com is always recommending booking 2 months early with a site such as trainline.com. I don't do a lot of travelling by train but now and again go to London and want rock bottom prices. As my visits are for leisure, this means that I can be a little flexible with times/days. Coupled with an early booking time, this usually throws up some incredibly cheap options. I have been able to secure single fares from Nottingham to London for £9! This is a huge difference to a price of around ...  Read the complete review

Presumably somehow, somewhere there exists an effective means of quickly transferring useful and accurate information on train timetables, routes and prices to the general public, but in my experience I can say that thetrainline.com definitely isn't it. It's a website which in theory you can use to plan your railway journey anywhere in Britain (unless of course you intend using the main west-coast rail line in England, in which case your train journey will be broken up partway through as you transfer on and off a bus somewhere around Cheltenham, to leap-frog over the many broken bits of track). You put in the start and end points for your proposed journey, ...  Read the complete review

My friends and I decided to go to Cardiff to see the Dr Who exhibition, well... I decided to drag them there. So as soon as we decided when we wanted to go I decided to look at train prices etc. I looked at various other sites such as nationalrail.co.uk and many others. However, I actually decided to buy the tickets off of this site. Simply because they gave me the cheapest options! I was able to put in search options for the actual day I wanted to go, which was 4th November 2009. The site actually told me which times would be the cheapest for me, and I was happy to see that the site accepted my railcard, whereas the national rail didn't. I clicked the times I wanted and ...  Read the complete review

The Train Line is a UK wide website allowing passengers to check train information as well as actually booking tickets in advance for travel. The site isn't associated with one single train company so you get all the options availble to you for the particular route for your journey. When you first visit the site, it's not the easiest to navigate around. It took me quite a while to get used to getting around it. I also still notice that can the site can be quite error prone, where by you may put an enquiry and the page just times out with an error. Past these internet issues, the site itself is very useful & a handy resource for all train ...  Read the complete review