Basingstoke to Bath train

Trains from Basingstoke to Bath start at €14.64 and take 1h 33m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Basingstoke to Bath starts at €14.64 and takes 1h 33m door to door, run by 3 operators over 103 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 8 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 33mDoor to door
  • 49mMoving
  • €14.64From
  • 3.4 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€12.99
  1. First Great Western FG532606:2649m07:15Basingstoke railway stationBath Spa railway station

Door to door 1h 33mCO2 3.4 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFrom
First Great Western€12.99
Great Western Railway€12.99
GWR€14.64

The journey ends at Bath Spa railway station. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

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Booking window

When to book Basingstoke to Bath

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €12.9990 days
  2. €12.4460 days
  3. €15.1945 days
  4. €13.5430 days
  5. €12.9921 days
  6. €14.6414 days
  7. €17.947 days
  8. €26.743 days
  9. €26.191 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €12.44.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 115 percent. The dearest point is €26.74, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €17.39Sun
  2. €15.74Mon
  3. €14.64Tue
  4. €16.29Wed
  5. €19.59Thu
  6. €18.49Fri
  7. €18.49Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Basingstoke

Rail
  • Basingstoke railway station
  • Hook railway station
  • Ropley railway station

Bath

Rail
  • Bath Spa railway station
  • Bathampton railway station
  • Weston (Bath) railway station
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
60% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 40% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 103 km against 89 km in a straight line, a detour of 16 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Southampton, Salisbury, Waterlooville, Swindon. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Basingstoke at 06:20 and the last at 14:33, across 10 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Basingstoke to Bath

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 the Train from Basingstoke to Bath take?

The Train from Basingstoke to Bath takes 1h 33m door to door, of which 49m is spent moving. The route runs 103 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Basingstoke to Bath cost?

The Train from Basingstoke to Bath starts at €14.64 for one passenger, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare is €16.29. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Basingstoke to Bath?

3 operators run the Train from Basingstoke to Bath: First Great Western, Great Western Railway, GWR. Between them they file around 10 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Basingstoke to Bath use?

The Train from Basingstoke to Bath leaves from Basingstoke railway station and arrives at Bath Spa railway station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Basingstoke to Bath?

Fares for the Train from Basingstoke to Bath bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €12.44. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 115 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Basingstoke to Bath produce?

The Train from Basingstoke to Bath produces about 3.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 103 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Basingstoke to Bath?

Operators on the Train from Basingstoke to Bath publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 33m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Basingstoke to Bath on 8 September 2026: 103 km of route against 89 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €14.64, and 1h 33m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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