thetrainline.com

I know loads of people have already reviewed thetrainline, but I think this is a good case of changing Consumer expectations - two years ago I would have rated this excellent but I don't think it has kept up with the best This is illustrated by an experience I had yesterday. I don't want to bore you, but the bottom line is that it would have been far quicker visiting a station and queuing in-line for a ticket thetrainline is a joint venture Virgin ...
...ww.thetrainline.com The holding Company also owns QJump.com, the only rival. However QJump does not offer the full range of Virgin fares, eg first class upgrades, and does not always offer collection from a fastticket machine at a station, which I find rather convenient You can also get much the same service via virgin.com/trains, you can use the same Account ID and password as thetrainline, however the presentation on the web pages is not as clear. ...

mark-southside 14.05.2004 · Read full review
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...day of travelling, someone recommended thetrainline.com to me so I thought I would give it a go! Before writing this review, I was just scouring some of the very negative reviews written about the trainline previously and I'm wondering if they have completely reviewed their service, as my experience was pretty positive although I do have one or two niggles. First, a little about the site itself. It is apparently the largest independent retailer ...
...can use it to look up train times and book your tickets in advance which of course saves a whole lot of hassle on the day. On the home page it is pretty easy to see the links to click on to either check journey times or actually book your tickets. The quick timetable checker is very quick. You just put in your 'leaving from' and 'going to' station and it instantly brings up a number of options. They give you all the information you would expect ...

kingfisher111 03.02.2008 · Read full review
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I have been using thetrainline for quite a while since I work in another city and travel frequently during weekend. But as it introduced charging fees for credit card booking, I switched to virgin. But still most time I check tickets on thetrainline. Generally speaking, apart of credit card charge I think this is a quite good web site for booking train tickets. Even after I switched to virgin, I found it was powered by thetrainline. And I can use ...
...web site is designed in a very clean and friendly way. On the main page, you can search available train schedules for your travel, which including trains in the U.K, Eurostar, International, and InterRail. There are basically two ways to search available train schedules. If you know the departure and arrival station name, you just simple type them in and provide your travel dates. If you don't know the station name, you can click on station search ...

rosycn1979 07.02.2007 · Read full review
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...The latter part is where thetrainline.com excels. thetrainline.com is one of those sites that works due to its elegant simplicity. It professes to be nothing more than a website from where you can purchase train tickets; it's as simple as that. There are spin-offs from the site, understandably, that allow you to book UK Hotels or theatre tickets at the sister site seeyoumonday.com, and their online store offers car hire at your destination and travel ...
...lime green oval logo that thetrainline.com uses, but the site itself is clean. The homepage gives you the options to book train tickets or short breaks and the first thing that catches your eye is the simple online form that invites you to check the times of any train from one station to the next. If you're unsure where the nearest station to your destination is, thetrainline.com can research that for you and give you options to choose from. Once ...

markd_uk 07.03.2005 · Read full review
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...option at all. The site Thetrainline.com is owned by Virgin trains and it’s the same thing if you book through Virgintrains.co.uk or Trainline.com as you only have to register once and your same account is valid for both sites. The only difference is that on trainline.com you can book for any train company. It’s always better to check out the virgin site first as there is 90% chance that you’ll find a special offer. Few months ago ...
...Manchester for £ 12 only. Currently there is special summer sale offering 50% of any ticket like Return ticket from London to Birmingham for only £ 7.50. BOOKING ------- If you share my views then you’ll agree that buying a train ticket can be very confusing with so many train companies around with different routes, change over and different type of fares with a remarkable difference in prices. Trainline.com makes it so easy. As easy as ...

LostAngel 12.08.2001 · Read full review
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...online. Having experimented with thetrainline.com over the last few weeks I can conclude that there are two main advantages to using the site. Firstly, for the off-peak traveller, there are considerable savings to be made on fares. Secondly, when ordering tickets in this way you combine ticket purchase, with seat reservation and journey information all in one swoop. The layout and design of the website is rather uninteresting. The home page combines ...
...attention – a visit to thetrainline.com is definitely a functional task. The advantage of this, of course, is that the site tends to load very quickly on the browser and is very easy to navigate – even Grandma Roots would be able to use this. In order to actually purchase tickets you are required to register your details – nothing particularly complicated, just simple name and email address. Once registered, it is then a simple ...

LostWitness 19.05.2001 · Read full review
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I’m not a frequent user of trains; in fact the last time was in the infamous Petrol Crisis of 2000. However in the week ahead I (and 120,000 others over 3 days) am going to see Robbie Williams “sing and dance” in Milton Keynes. The dilemma was how were we (four of us) going to get there? We could drive – I know MK fairly well, as I commute down to the new city on a daily basis. Only problem is that means one of us i.e. me, ...
...the coaches laid on by Way Ahead – the only issue here is that they want £15 each just to take us from Northampton, which is only a 20- 30 minute drive. That’s too steep I’d say, especially considering we’ve already paid upwards of £25 for the gig ticket. Or catch the train! So I browsed over to www.thetrainline.com. I had used the site before, but I had never actually made a purchase. The site is simple from the front end, ...

alflavor 17.07.2001 · Read full review
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As a part of my having fun plan after confirming I have a hotel booked it occured that going to Birmingham and drinking the night away would probably make driving home the next day somewhat dangerous. So turning to the ever present cashback sites to look for a cheap and reasonably reliable way to get to the drinking city and then home again. As was almost expected the train was the easiest option, booking online being a way to attempt to get a few ...
...the traintimes is very simple, type in the station you want to leave from, and the destination station. Enter the date/s you want to travel, if you have a railcard and click 'next'. The page it brings up is a table showing train times, number of changes on the journey and finally the duration of the journey and an option to look for trains at an earlier or later time should the options given not suffice. Clicking the 'next' button takes you to ...

scuba_angel 09.06.2008 · Read full review
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...read a few reviews about thetrainline.com and was keen to put the site to the test. Other Ciao members had recommended this online booking service as being a good and efficient way of buying train tickets, and like anyone, I am keen not to waste money! Unfortunately, on my first visit, the site was not working, so later that evening I tried to log on once more, this time with some success. Joe Public may not know what all the various terms on the ...
...price. My faith in thetrainline.com was immediately shattered when a very helpful person at GNER started to explain the cheapest way of travelling for my daughter and me that we would save a total of £108.75 on the prices we had been quoted by thetrainline. Many people would have simply bought the overpriced tickets from thetrainline.com, but my perseverance had paid off. By buying a “Family Rail Card”, I was advised, Libby and I could ...

TrueChristian 19.08.2001 · Read full review
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As some of you will know Dave (my partner) has recently started his new job as a consultant and now has to travel to different places all over the British Isles. Next week he is going to Haverfordwest in South Wales and intends to stop in a hotel in Tenby. Now this sounds just my cup of tea so I shall be going with him on this occasion. The complication is that Dave will have to travel down on Monday and, due to my work commitments, I can’t ...
...why I decided to access the website www.thetrainline.com I was impressed with the clarity of the homepage, which is simply but stylishly set out in shades of blue offering a choice of ‘buy tickets’, ‘join us’, ‘rail news’ or ‘business service’. I decided to join the site and was impressed again as I was confronted with a request for name, e-mail address and password. Simplicity itself and, of course, ...

SusanLesley 31.10.2001 · Read full review
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Anyone who regularly travels by train will be used to all the delays (particularly if you travel by Virgin Trains!) and queues associated with rail travel, not just the travel itself, but the purchase of tickets and travel enquiries. Anything that can reduce the stresses involved is good in my books, and Thetrainline certainly does this. Thetrainline is owned by Virgin Trains, but unlike the trains themselves, this works very well. It is a portal ...
...travel, not just for Virgin Train routes, but for any rail journey in the country. You have to be registered to use the site, but this is a pretty painless process and is very advantageous, as once you have registered you only have to log-in using a username and password on subsequent visits. Your information, including payment details, is stored so as long as you want your tickets sent to the same address and you payment details do not change, ...

paule23 04.03.2001 · Read full review
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The trains may not run on time but ordering train tickets on the net is fast and efficient using www.thetrainline.com During the last twelve months my son has been using the train to travel significant distances from home to university. Not having used the railway network for some time, we soon discovered that the cost of the ticket could be a bit of a lottery. Travelling from Wolverhampton to Exeter, the cost of a return journey with a Young Persons’ ...
...of days in advance you purchased the ticket and the time of departure. Discussing all the various options available at the ticket office is not a task to be taken lightly, particularly if there’s a queue of impatient commuters behind you. There is a tendency to accept one of the limited options offered to you by the harassed ticket office clerk, which can over a period of months cost you dearly. Using the net as it should be used, I soon found ...

Merv 04.11.2001 · Read full review
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...The main aim of thetrainline.com is to supply users with times of trains that travel around the UK, hopefully taking you to your destination at the appropriate time, and then to hopefully make you purchase ticket(s) from them. My first purchase was very recently, as I need to go to Manchester, from Cambridge, to visit a University Open day at UMIST. To find out what trains are available, you enter the location from where you are travelling from, ...
...type in the city/town, and then click on "look up" which will lead you to a list of stations that match with that city. Pick the one you want to end up at. There is an optional option where you are able to enter a station you want to travel through OR avoid, which can be useful. Now, I've entered Cambridge, and Manchester Picadilly. Ticket type: Select from single, return, open return. I selected open return, so I can return within a month of travelling, ...

robertliu84 22.06.2001 · Read full review
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Thetrainline is a site I have used on many occasions. In fact, it is my preferred method of purchasing train tickets due to the simplicity of the operation and remoteness of my village, with the nearest town railway station unable to sell tickets. The option then remains to purchase tickets on the train when it arrives, which I am happy to do on shorter journeys but somehow having a long-distance ticket in your hand before you step onto the train ...
...look at thetrainline site, from its general look to the efficacy of the ordering system, whilst also venturing slightly into the newer services provided by the site since its inception. -Main Site Thetrainline loads promptly and ease of navigation is aided by clear menu structures and a reasonably uncluttered mains screen. The main function of the site is to find train times and book tickets accordingly. In my experience it certainly does this ...

heideroosjes 22.05.2005 · Read full review
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...for bookings and enquiries. thetrainline.com is a service provided for the usage of the country's train users. The rail service has, let's face it, been a little 'below standard' in recent times, but it's nice to see a site that can not only offer a full service, but also cope admirably with the adversity of these situations. thetrainline.com allows you to look at the availability of trains across the country from the comfort of your computer, ...
...thing that annoys me about thetrainline.com is the limitation on the times you can book your tickets. Now maybe I'm a bit of a night owl, but I would like to be able to order my tickets late at night, but the system doesn't allow you to book between certain times (11:30pm and 4am as I recall). This can be rather irritating, but it may be something inherent in the rail booking system that they can't get around. Overall, despite it's shortcomings, ...

Excelle 28.02.2001 · Read full review
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