Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Exeter to Crawley. From €24.54, fastest 2h 40m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Travelling from Exeter to Crawley costs €24.54 at the cheapest and takes 2h 40m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 274 km. Cheapest is by Train, fastest is by Train.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on 29 September 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 2h 40m | 1h 56m | 44m | €35.54 | 9.0 kg | 4 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Gosport, with 80 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 8h 31mCO2 23.2 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 2h 40mCO2 9.0 kgChanges 0Refundable
Changes at Southampton, with 98 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 4h 20mCO2 8.6 kgChanges 1Refundable
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of travelling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Exeter to Crawley | Wed9 Sept | Thu10 Sept | Fri11 Sept | Sat12 Sept | Sun13 Sept | Mon14 Sept | Tue15 Sept | Wed16 Sept | Thu17 Sept | Fri18 Sept | Sat19 Sept | Sun20 Sept | Mon21 Sept | Tue22 Sept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferry | €56.44 | €56.44 | €53.69 | €47.09 | €38.29 | €34.99 | €40.49 | €27.84 | €41.04 | €38.29 | €35.54 | €34.99 | €28.94 | €31.69 |
| Train | €75.14 | €87.79 | €80.64 | €62.49 | €57.54 | €52.59 | €50.39 | €42.14 | €59.19 | €56.99 | €44.89 | €44.34 | €35.54 | €36.64 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-29 · €24.54
The journey ends at Crawley railway station. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 South Western Railway | €33.89 | 2h 40m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €20.50 | 84% |
| Taxes | €2.05 | 8% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 8% |
| Total you pay | €24.54 | 100% |
We cannot promise Crawley railway station still has a left luggage office, because plenty of stations closed theirs.
Priced by the bag and by the day, booked before you get there, and insured while it sits.
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The fastest journey from Exeter to Crawley takes 2h 40m door to door, of which 1h 56m is spent moving, on the Train. Most services take around 2h 48m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Exeter to Crawley is €24.54, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €52.04. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Exeter to Crawley is by Train, at €35.54 for one passenger on 29 September 2026. That journey takes 2h 40m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Exeter to Crawley bottom out around 90 days before departure, at €22.34. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 153 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Exeter to Crawley, at €27.84. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on 29 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Exeter to Crawley, at €22.88 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.
1 operators sell services from Exeter to Crawley across 1 modes: South Western Railway. 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.
20 percent of the services we sell from Exeter to Crawley are direct. The rest connect at Gosport, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole, with about 80 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Exeter to Crawley by Train leave from Exeter Central and arrive at Crawley railway station. Allow about 44m 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.
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Exeter to Crawley allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
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