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 and National Express (who ran QJump) The url is ww.thetrainline.com The holding Company also owns QJump.com, the only rival. However QJump does not ... more

Occasionally I have to travel by train for work, and rather than queue up for tickets on the 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 of train tickets and the best thing is that you can use it ... more

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 the same username and password for both systems. The web site is designed in a very clean and friendly way. On the main page, you can search ... more

Let's face it, public transport sucks. That might seem like a harsh attitude to have towards a public service, especially to people who don't have their own private mode of transport, but compared to public transport services in other countries, Britain's network of busses and trains is a pretty poor standard to set. But having discovered how much I'm costing him in pence-per-mile expenses to get up to York and back, my employer has asked me to consider using the train to get from my house to our offices in York. Here cometh the first problem - I live in a backwater village. To get to a train ... more

It was late in the evening, it seemed that it was going to rain and I was too tired as I came out of the Liverpool station. That’s nearly one year ago, a boy handed me a leaflet that said Glasgow return for £1 only. I looked at the leaflet and then the boy and said in my mind‘ YEAH RIGHT!’ I rolled the paper in my hand looking for a dustbin when I saw my bus coming and rushed towards it to catch it not realising that the paper was in my pocket now. That night when I found the leaflet in my pocket I thought let’s check out the website. The offer was by Virgin trains and ... more