Trainline: Buy Train Tickets

Category
Travel

Description of App

thetrainline.com is the UK's leading independent train ticket retailer. We sell tickets for all train companies to all national destinations.

This is the official app from thetrainline.com and is perfect for anyone who wants to view UK train times or buy tickets on the move. You can also download timetables and refer to them anytime, whether your iPhone (or iPod touch or iPad) is online or not.

Buy train tickets

  • Buy tickets quickly and easily in just a few taps with no booking or Debit card fees.
  • Buy and collect your tickets from the station right up to 10 minutes before departure.
  • Collect your tickets from self service ticket machines at over 900 stations. Ticket collection reference available even when you’re offline.

Plan your journey

  • View rail times and journey information for all national routes
  • No need to worry about missing your train - timetable information is updated daily 
  • Find your nearest station from a list or map using your iPhone's location services

Saved Journeys and Timetables

  • Download timetables that can be viewed when you're not online
  • Save your favourite journeys for easy lookup 
  • Sync itineraries for booked journeys with your thetrainline.com web account

Next train home

  • No need to run for your train, one touch finds the next train home

Version

2.0.5

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

Not Known

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

9

Accessibility Comments

Completely accessible with voiceover, meaning all buttons and controls are labelled.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

App Store Link

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thetrainline/id334235181?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Developer's Website

http://www.thetrainline.com/

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

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Comments

By Kara Louise on Friday, September 9, 2011 - 17:03

I used this app as my primary source of looking up train times for quite a while. As the review says, it is totally accessible. However, be awair that when your search results are displayed, VoiceOver reads the columns in a bizarre order which some of you may find frustrating. After spending time with it,, I was able to get used to the mangled way in which it would read so it was no problem for me. I have now switched over to the UK Train Times app, which in my opinion is far superior and so much easier to use than this one. It's worth every penny of the nearly £5 I paid for it.

By alex wallis on Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 17:03

Hi all, wondering if anyone knows how to activate mobile tickets in this app? I successfully purchased my mobile ticket, and it says the ticket is ready for activation on the day of travel, on the my tickets tab next to where it shows the date of my journey I see two unlabeled buttons followed by a view tickets button.
I don't particularly want to tap either of these unlabeled buttons not knowing what will happen, if I tap view tickets I only see information for my outward ticket but not my return one. any help would be appreciated, and of course if there is a friendlier app than trainline I would certainly be interested in knowing about it, all the train operators apps seem to use the same rather poor user interface. I did look at the traintimes UK app recommended on this page but it hasn't been updated in around two years so assume its a bit out of date by now, certainly one of the reviews says that a particular station can't be found.
I did also read the forum topic from 2016 about activating mobile tickets, and I think the UI has been revised since then as I actually see nothing at all about activating tickets, and the two unlabeled buttons weren't mentioned in that topic so I presume the controls in the app have been changed since that topic was created. wondering if it was really such a good idea buying a mobile ticket, but really I don't want to fiddle with loads of bits of paper, plus it saves me 20 pence on the booking fee.