One passenger pays between £44.60 and £50.23, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. Services cover 450 km and are run by 5 operators across 2 modes.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 0 operators and 2 ways of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares · Priced for 27 October 2026
£44.60 to £50.23
- 151%Moves across the booking window
151%12Go issues the ticket, and you book it here on Orlero.
Buying this journey
Pick a departure for Aberdeen to Preston and pay on tickets.orlero.com, our booking site.
The price is the one 12Go sets, with every fee shown before you pay.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £94.14Wed7
- about £98.69Thu8
- about £88.07Fri9
- about £70.89Sat10
- about £73.80Sun11
- about £56.23Mon12
- about £66.26Tue13
- about £57.74Wed14
- about £66.84Thu15
- about £62.02Fri16
- about £57.23Sat17
- about £50.67Sun18
- about £52.19Mon19
- about £50.67Tue20
- about £46.00Wed21
- about £60.27Thu22
- about £52.19Fri23
- about £55.89Sat24
- about £52.69Sun25
- about £45.11Mon26
- about £44.60Tue27
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The train gets you into Preston. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Preston for the night the train gets in
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When to book Aberdeen to Preston
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £37.5390 days
- £47.8860 days
- £43.0845 days
- £43.1730 days
- £44.6021 days
- £50.6714 days
- £66.267 days
- £88.073 days
- £94.141 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £37.53.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 151 percent. The dearest point is £94.14, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 90 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Aberdeen to Preston and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.
The shape of it
450 km
378 km as the crow flies, 19% further by the route services take. The bearing runs south.
Who lives at each end
198,590 → 313,332
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
The route
What the journey looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 450 km against 378 km in a straight line, a detour of 19 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Darlington, Glasgow, Edinburgh. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
Who runs this route
The train gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Left luggage near Preston railway station
Most of the points near Preston railway station open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Aberdeen to Preston
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does it take to get from Aberdeen to Preston?
Aberdeen to Preston covers 450 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.
How much does it cost to travel from Aberdeen to Preston?
The cheapest fare from Aberdeen to Preston is £44.60, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £63.90. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
What is the cheapest way to get from Aberdeen to Preston?
The cheapest way from Aberdeen to Preston is by flight, at £44.60 for one passenger on 27 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Aberdeen to Preston?
Fares from Aberdeen to Preston bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £37.53. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 151 percent, measured on 6 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Aberdeen to Preston?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Aberdeen to Preston, at £50.67. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 6 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Aberdeen to Preston?
November is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Aberdeen to Preston, at £38.46 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
Who runs services from Aberdeen to Preston?
5 operators sell services from Aberdeen to Preston across 2 modes: Arriva Cross Country, Avanti West Coast, Loganair, Northern, ScotRail. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
Is there a direct service from Aberdeen to Preston?
0 percent of the services we sell from Aberdeen to Preston are direct. The rest connect at Darlington, Glasgow, Edinburgh, with about 45 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
How much CO2 does the journey from Aberdeen to Preston produce?
Travelling from Aberdeen to Preston by train produces about 15.1 kg of CO2 per passenger, the lowest of any mode on this corridor. The same journey by Flight produces about 67.4 kg, roughly 4 times as much for one passenger.
Which station or terminal do services from Aberdeen to Preston use?
Services from Aberdeen to Preston by flight leave from Aberdeen International Airport ABZ and arrive at Bolton. Allow about 1h 57m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
Can I change or refund a ticket from Aberdeen to Preston?
4 of the 5 operators we sell from Aberdeen to Preston allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Where these numbers come from
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Preston is somebody else's catalogue.
Day trips out of Preston and across United Kingdom
Day trips that leave Preston in the morning and cover a good part of United Kingdom by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Aberdeen reaches 20 places in 3 countries on services we hold, over distances from 92 to 14,603 km. Preston reaches 15 places in 1 countries, from 25 to 378 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Aberdeen
- 20Places you can leave for
- 3Countries
- 5Operators
3
5Arriving in Preston
Leaving Preston
- 15Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 8Operators