Trainline: Train travel Europe

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About this app

Welcome, future Trainliner. Get on board with millions of world-wide users, today, to travel confidently with us – Europe’s leading train and bus app.

Why?
Whether heading to an international city or from an international terminal, 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 – you can even use Crowd Alerts to find out how busy your train is. Plus, forgetting, misplacing, or totally destroying your paper tickets becomes a thing of the past when you purchase digital versions through our app!

With so much to see and do, getting there should be the easy part – and when you book through our app, it is! Find cheap tickets for Eurostar, Avanti West Coast, GWR, LNER, National Express, Renfe, Iryo, Trenitalia, Italo, and many other European rail lines. Or if you want to buy bus tickets, simply search and book directly in the app. Need some travel inspo first? We got that covered, too, with travel blogs and suggested “popular journeys”.

So, whether you want to book bus seats, get cheap train tickets, or stay updated during your journey, you can always rely on our app to deliver the goods.

Why use Trainline to book train and bus tickets?
- Buy all your tickets in one place – plan your dream country-hopping journey on our app.
- Compare train and bus options from 260 train and bus companies.
- Compare prices and get cheap tickets in your preferred currency (USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, CAD, CHF, and SEK).
- Buy tickets with Amex, Google Pay, PayPal, and all major credit cards and debit cards.
- Add loyalty and discount cards to get benefits on cheap tickets on UK rail services, Eurostar, SNCF, Thalys, and Renfe.
- Book tickets in advance or buy same-day train tickets up to 15 minutes before departure.
- Buy tickets on your phone to skip station queues for selected routes.
- Add Cancel for Any Reason to your booking for cover up to 15 minutes before departure.
- Save plans for later and lock in tickets for up to 7 days.
- Find the best value train tickets using our price calendar.

Our partners:
Across Europe and the UK, you can browse routes with
Eurostar (UK, France and the Netherlands)
Heathrow Express (UK)
Avanti West Coast (UK)
GWR (UK)
National Express (UK)
London Overground (UK)
SNCF (France)
TGV Lyria (France)
Thalys (France)
Trenitalia (Italy)
Italo (Italy)
Renfe (Spain)
Alsa (Spain)
Deutsche Bahn (Germany)
ÖBB (Austria)
SBB (Switzerland)
NS (the Netherlands)
SNCB (Belgium)
Flixbus and many, many more…

No matter who you choose to rail with, we make buying European tickets a smooth experience while bringing you the best fares available for every fuss-free journey. But should you need it, our dedicated customer support team is on-hand (and on the phone) to help you navigate the railways of Europe. Just give us a call!

So, download our FREE Trainline app and get access to everything you need to train across the UK and Europe like a pro.

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
Updated on
Jul 6, 2026

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
878K reviews
Graham Dewey
April 12, 2026
Further to my previous posts, see below, this app now wants to know my age and those of my companions. This is crazy, I only want to buy a railway ticket! Time to close the account I think. Other issues: preferences no longer saved, itinerary for a journey doesn't show times of arrival or departure for each leg, slow to load and often crashes and the fact this used to be free, now we have to pay an Admin booking fee and in addition we get ads too.
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trainline
April 15, 2026
Hi Graham, Thanks for providing your feedback regarding your app experience. I'll ensure that this is fed back to the relevant teams. Thanks - Gareth
Carl S
September 14, 2024
One of *the* best apps. I used to dislike the booking fee but realise it's worth it given how convenient is (but please don't put prices up!). For UK national rail it's super easy and tells you if QR code will work on your journey. The game changer for me is the ease of booking international journeys across Europe, including by night train. It is also good at saving and applying railcards. Sometimes if the journey is too complex, you do need to search in segments.
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Grant Mitchell
October 12, 2024
What have you do e to this App. It used to be simple to use now you've made it guess work as the train you think you've booked doesn't pull through and ends up near enough being the same time as your return train which isn't what was wanted. Seat booking has given 2 seats in different carriages on the outbound and any between 8 seat numbers on the return. Days are numbered using this, doesn't default to the search page on opening instead wants to give me some random journey elsewhere.
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trainline
October 14, 2024
Hi Grant, thanks you for your feedback and can you share your details in here > https://bit.ly/3M9AXYX so we can look into this for you. Thanks. Lorcan

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.