City of Westminster to Leeds train

Trains from City of Westminster to Leeds start at €33.88 and take 3h at their fastest.

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The Trains from City of Westminster to Leeds starts at €33.88 and takes 3h door to door, run by 2 operators over 314 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3hDoor to door
  • 2h 16mMoving
  • €39.38 to €74.04From
  • 06:17 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 10.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€39.38 to €74.04 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €74.04Mon21
  2. about €60.84Tue22
  3. about €69.09Wed23
  4. about €72.39Thu24
  5. about €60.29Fri25
  6. about €70.19Sat26
  7. about €59.19Sun27
  8. about €42.13Mon28
  9. about €39.38Tue29
  10. about €44.33Wed30
  11. about €52.59Thu1
  12. about €47.63Fri2
  13. about €48.74Sat3
  14. about €52.04Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026

Cheapest€33.88
  1. Avanti West Coast AW405707:3028m07:58City of Westminster stationLuton railway station
  2. London North Eastern Railway LN169909:301h 49m11:19Luton railway stationLeeds

Changes at Luton, with 92 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 4h 33mCO2 9.2 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€41.04
  1. London North Eastern Railway LN973406:292h 16m08:45City of Westminster stationLeeds

Door to door 3hCO2 10.4 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

  • London North Eastern Railway
  • Lumo

The train gets you into Leeds. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Leeds for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book City of Westminster to Leeds

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

  1. €43.2390 days
  2. €35.5360 days
  3. €32.7845 days
  4. €32.2330 days
  5. €39.3921 days
  6. €52.0414 days
  7. €59.197 days
  8. €69.093 days
  9. €74.041 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €32.23.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 130 percent. The dearest point is €74.04, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €52.04Sun
  2. €42.13Mon
  3. €39.38Tue
  4. €44.33Wed
  5. €52.59Thu
  6. €47.63Fri
  7. €48.74Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Leeds

Rail
  • Leeds
  • Leeds railway station
  • Leeds Central railway station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 314 km against 273 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Mansfield, Nottingham, Luton, Sheffield. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves City of Westminster at 06:17 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about City of Westminster to Leeds

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 City of Westminster to Leeds take?

The Train from City of Westminster to Leeds takes 3h door to door, of which 2h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 314 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 City of Westminster to Leeds cost?

The Train from City of Westminster to Leeds starts at €33.88 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €40.22. 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 City of Westminster to Leeds?

2 operators run the Train from City of Westminster to Leeds: London North Eastern Railway, Lumo. Between them they file around 6 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 City of Westminster to Leeds use?

The Train from City of Westminster to Leeds leaves from City of Westminster station and arrives at Leeds. 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 City of Westminster to Leeds?

Fares for the Train from City of Westminster to Leeds bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €32.23. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 130 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from City of Westminster to Leeds produce?

The Train from City of Westminster to Leeds produces about 10.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 314 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 City of Westminster to Leeds?

Operators on the Train from City of Westminster to Leeds publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

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.

Derived from service area The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for City of Westminster to Leeds on 20 September 2026: 314 km of route against 273 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €33.88, and 3h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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