Trainline Best Fare Finder

Best Fare Finder - find cheap train tickets
Save 61% on cheap UK train tickets
Ticket Alert - save with advance tickets
SplitSave - split ticketing on rail travel
Cheap train tickets to London
Cheap train tickets to Manchester

Best Fare Finder

Trainline: Save 61% on cheap UK train tickets

Book in advance and save on average 61% on train tickets
Saving based on advance fares compared to purchase on day
Available on selected routes. Subject to availability

Trainline is the UK's most established rail search and booking tool. The Trainline 'Best Fare Finder' tool is the leading cheap fares search engine in the market. It's been around since 1999, so has more than a decade worth of experience over its more recent competitors.

The Trainline Best Fare Finder for cheap train tickets in 2025/2026

Since the beginning of its journey, the Trainline^* website has sold to more than 6 million customers and has double that number of registered users. The site has access to thousands of fare and journey combinations, giving it the ability to find the cheapest fares for you.

Trainline Best Fare Finder: find the cheapest fares for 2025/2026

if you're flexible with the times you're able to travel, the Best Fare Finder tool can help you choose a cheaper fare.
simply input the dates you're considering, and the fare finder will tell you which date and time on that date is the cheapest that week.
the Best Fare Finder tool also gives you the opportunity to tweak your choices, so if you are looking for just first class fares, you can select only first class fares.

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Trainline: Best Fare Finder - find cheap train tickets

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Find the cheapest tickets with the Trainline Best Fare Finder
Select your route & see lowest fares based on travel dates
Save 61% on travel day prices when you buy in advance

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Trainline: Save 61% on cheap UK train tickets

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Book in advance and save on average 61% on train tickets
Saving based on advance fares compared to purchase on day
Available on selected routes. Subject to availability

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Trainline: Ticket Alert - save with advance tickets

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Receive alerts for when advance tickets become available
Discover advance booking window for top train operators
Buy in advance and save 61% on travel day prices

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Trainline: SplitSave - split ticketing on rail travel

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Save on UK rail travel with Trainline SplitSave
Book split tickets & get cheaper train tickets
Learn more about how it works on UK routes

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Trainline: Cheap train tickets to London

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Find cheap tickets & train times to London
Travel from Manchester, Birmingham, York, Leeds & more
Use the Trainline Best Fare Finder to find the cheapest fare

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Trainline: Cheap train tickets to Manchester

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Find cheap tickets & train times to Manchester
Travel from London, Edinburgh, Nottingham & more
Use the Trainline Best Fare Finder to find the cheapest fare

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Trainline: Cheap train tickets to Birmingham

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Find cheap tickets & train times to Birmingham
Travel from London, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester & more
Use the Trainline Best Fare Finder to find the cheapest fare

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Trainline: Cheap train tickets to Leeds

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Find cheap tickets & train times to Leeds
Travel from London, York, Manchester, Newcastle & more
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Trainline: Cheap train tickets to Edinburgh

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Find cheap tickets & train times to Edinburgh
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Why book with Trainline?

when you book with Trainline, you have access to advance booking fares, which is almost always cheaper than booking on the day.
if you book far enough in advance, you can save as much as 43% of what you'd pay for a walk up fare.
you can collect most tickets you purchase from the fast ticket machines at the station or have them posted to you. In some cases, you can even print them out yourself at home.

Ticket Alert - cheapest fares emailed to your inbox

The Trainline Ticket Alert^* feature allows you to input a journey you want to take and receive emails when the advance fares for that journey first roll in. This means you will be alerted at the time you can make the maximum saving on that journey, as tickets are almost always cheaper in advance.

Live departure boards

The Live Departure Boards^* tool enables you to input destinations and see when trains are arriving from or departing to those stations. When the platform number is available, that information is also displayed.

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A window to the rest of the world

Trainline has partnered with Eurostar, Rail Europe and International Rail to give you access to train fares worldwide. There's a Eurostar booking form for buying tickets from London to Paris and other Eurostar destinations.

There's also a booking form for European train tickets and passes, provided by RailEurope, which is run by French operator SNCF. Passes for the rest of the world can be obtained from International Rail.

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Book trains and hotels all on one page

Trainline has a fantastic page for booking train journeys at the same time as hotels. This saves having to go all the way over to another site to suffer an overload of options. Here, you can simply go to the Trains and Hotels^* page on the website.

On the Trains and Hotels^* page, you can choose from more than 2,500 destinations to visit, add the number of people visiting, and let the booking engine do the rest.

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Get even more discounts on train travel across the UK, Europe and Japan from The Train Hacker, plus plenty of tips for saving money on fares and inspiring rail tales.

With its variety of fare finder tools the capability to book hotels and trains together, Trainline^* could put you right on track. If you're looking for more ways to save money with cheap train tickets in 2025/2026, check out our train discounts page.