One passenger pays £44.59, every fee included. Services cover 599 km and are run by 4 operators across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £44.59, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 26 October 2026
£44.59
- 176%Moves across the booking window
176%Departure times on this route
Departure times on this route12Go lists the departures it sells between Northampton and Aberdeen.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £105.37Wed7
- about £110.08Thu8
- about £111.50Fri9
- about £86.52Sat10
- about £87.93Sun11
- about £66.73Mon12
- about £62.96Tue13
- about £60.60Wed14
- about £74.27Thu15
- about £68.62Fri16
- about £78.04Sat17
- about £68.62Sun18
- about £52.59Mon19
- about £53.54Tue20
- about £53.54Wed21
- about £64.38Thu22
- about £59.19Fri23
- about £55.89Sat24
- about £56.84Sun25
- about £44.59Mon26
- about £50.23Tue27
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The train gets you into Aberdeen. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Aberdeen for the night the train gets in
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When to book Northampton to Aberdeen
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £40.3490 days
- £56.3760 days
- £46.9445 days
- £51.6530 days
- £50.2321 days
- £53.5414 days
- £62.967 days
- £111.503 days
- £105.371 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £40.34.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 176 percent. The dearest point is £111.50, 3 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.
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This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Northampton to Aberdeen 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
599 km
550 km as the crow flies, 9% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north.
Who lives at each end
245,899 → 198,590
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 599 km against 550 km in a straight line, a detour of 9 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Manchester, Leeds. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 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.
The fare from ABZ into Aberdeen is set by whoever drives it.
A car waiting when you land in Aberdeen
Settled in advance, so the ride into Aberdeen costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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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 Aberdeen railway station
Most of the points near Aberdeen railway station open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Northampton to Aberdeen
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 Northampton to Aberdeen?
Northampton to Aberdeen covers 599 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 Northampton to Aberdeen?
The cheapest fare from Northampton to Aberdeen is £44.59, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £66.97. 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 Northampton to Aberdeen?
The cheapest way from Northampton to Aberdeen is by train, at £44.59 for one passenger on 26 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Northampton to Aberdeen?
Fares from Northampton to Aberdeen bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £40.34. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 176 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 Northampton to Aberdeen?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Northampton to Aberdeen, at £52.59. 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 Northampton to Aberdeen?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Northampton to Aberdeen, at £36.57 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 Northampton to Aberdeen?
4 operators sell services from Northampton to Aberdeen across 1 mode: Avanti West Coast, Eastern Airways, Loganair, London North Eastern 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.
Is there a direct service from Northampton to Aberdeen?
0 percent of the services we sell from Northampton to Aberdeen are direct. The rest connect at Manchester, Leeds, with about 46 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Which station or terminal do services from Northampton to Aberdeen use?
Services from Northampton to Aberdeen by train leave from Northampton railway station and arrive at Aberdeen International Airport ABZ. 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 Northampton to Aberdeen?
2 of the 4 operators we sell from Northampton to Aberdeen 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
Being on the water gives Aberdeen a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips out of Aberdeen and across United Kingdom
Day trips that leave Aberdeen in the morning and cover a good part of United Kingdom by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Northampton reaches 13 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 25 to 550 km. Aberdeen reaches 20 places in 3 countries, from 92 to 14,603 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Northampton
- 13Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 7Operators
1
7Arriving in Aberdeen
Leaving Aberdeen
- 20Places you can leave for
- 3Countries
- 5Operators