thetrainline.com

The current advertising campaign for the trainline centres massively on how you can gain reduced fares on the site. This is certainly true, but by no means are these the cheapest prices on the net. I used to use this site regularly, and enjoyed great savings booking in advance train tickets as opposed to buying them on the day at the station. However, I was shocked when I started browsing other rail ticket sites, to find that the same tickets can be gained a lot cheaper on other sites like national express. I felt let down by the trainline as I had given them a lot of my business in the faith I put in them to have the cheapest options for rail travel. ...

I have been using the Trainline website for some time now. You have to register if you want to buy tickets but not if you just want to find timetable and price information. After you have registered, the Trainline will email you with special offers from time to time. It is a fairly user friendly website that is easy on the eye. It does tend to cut out mid transaction quite often. Sometimes you cannot get back to the part of the site you want and using the back button gets rid of the information you have already typed in. The main advantage of the site, is that you can find really cheap train tickets from the comfort of your own home. On the site, ...

I've bought tickets everal times using the Trainline I often find it highly frustrating as for some reason my computer often crashes on this site - not sure why but I'm not here to argue about that We bought tickets about 6 months ago so that my partner's son could travel down from Coventry for a week, and boy was it hard. It wasn't hard to book a ticket what was, was the fact that we visited the site over a few days (as I was waiting to pay on my next credit card statement), but as we were trying to find cheap tickets I couldn't believe that the prices kept fluctuating, and it was actually cheaper changing at Reading rather than Birmingham. In ...