Liverpool to Bradford train

Trains from Liverpool to Bradford start at €17.94 and take 1h 32m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Liverpool to Bradford starts at €17.94 and takes 1h 32m door to door, run by 6 operators over 105 km, with around 21 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 18 September 2026Priced for 22 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 32mDoor to door
  • 48mMoving
  • €14.09 to €27.84From
  • 06:12 to 17:28First and last departure
  • 21Per day
  • 3.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 22 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€14.09 to €27.84 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Caledonian Sleeper runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Liverpool to Bradford on your date, and you pay on their side.

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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 €27.84Sat19
  2. about €26.19Sun20
  3. about €19.04Mon21
  4. about €17.94Tue22
  5. about €19.59Wed23
  6. about €24.54Thu24
  7. about €17.94Fri25
  8. about €18.49Sat26
  9. about €16.84Sun27
  10. about €15.19Mon28
  11. about €15.19Tue29
  12. about €16.84Wed30
  13. about €17.94Thu1
  14. about €14.09Fri2

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 22 September 2026

Fastest€21.79
  1. Arriva Cross Country AC746406:2148m07:09Liverpool Lime StreetBradford Interchange

Door to door 1h 32mCO2 3.5 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromOn board
Arriva Cross Country€13.54Power sockets, Wi-Fi
Avanti West Coast€12.44Power sockets, Wi-Fi
Caledonian Sleeper€11.89Power sockets, Sleeper berths, Wi-Fi
London North Eastern Railway€12.99Power sockets, Wi-Fi
Lumo€12.44Power sockets, Wi-Fi
TransPennine Express€11.89Power sockets, Wi-Fi

The train gets you into Bradford. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Bradford for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Bradford Interchange and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Liverpool to Bradford

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

  1. €10.0790 days
  2. €10.0760 days
  3. €10.0745 days
  4. €10.0730 days
  5. €10.0721 days
  6. €10.0714 days
  7. €10.637 days
  8. €11.733 days
  9. €16.131 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 60 percent. The dearest point is €16.13, 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.
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. €10.63Sun
  2. €10.07Mon
  3. €10.07Tue
  4. €10.07Wed
  5. €10.08Thu
  6. €10.07Fri
  7. €11.18Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Liverpool

Rail
  • Liverpool Lime Street
  • Liverpool Central
  • Moorfields

Bradford

Rail
  • Bradford Interchange
  • Bradford Forster Square
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
88% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 13% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 105 km against 91 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 Manchester, Salford, Bolton. The gap between arriving and leaving is 64 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Liverpool at 06:12 and the last at 17:28, across 21 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Trains against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train1h 32m48m44m€17.943.5 kg21
Coach2h 11m1h 27m44m€10.072.8 kg3

Questions about Liverpool to Bradford

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 Liverpool to Bradford take?

The Train from Liverpool to Bradford takes 1h 32m door to door, of which 48m is spent moving. The route runs 105 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 Liverpool to Bradford cost?

The Train from Liverpool to Bradford starts at €17.94 for one passenger, as of 18 September 2026. A typical fare is €21.79. 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 Liverpool to Bradford?

6 operators run the Train from Liverpool to Bradford: Arriva Cross Country, Avanti West Coast, Caledonian Sleeper, London North Eastern Railway, Lumo. Between them they file around 21 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 Liverpool to Bradford use?

The Train from Liverpool to Bradford leaves from Liverpool Lime Street and arrives at Bradford Interchange. 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.

Is the Train the best way from Liverpool to Bradford?

Travelling from Liverpool to Bradford by Coach costs €10.07 and takes 2h 11m door to door, against 1h 32m by Train. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Train from Liverpool to Bradford?

Fares for the Train from Liverpool to Bradford bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 60 percent, measured on 18 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Liverpool to Bradford produce?

The Train from Liverpool to Bradford produces about 3.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 105 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 Liverpool to Bradford?

Operators on the Train from Liverpool to Bradford publish Power sockets, Sleeper berths, Wi-Fi. That is what 6 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 32m 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 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.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Liverpool to Bradford on 18 September 2026: 105 km of route against 91 km in a straight line, 21 services a day, 6 operators a cheapest fare of €17.94, and 1h 32m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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