Reading to Putney train

Trains from Reading to Putney start at €11.88 and take 1h 14m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Reading to Putney starts at €11.88 and takes 1h 14m door to door, run by 3 operators over 60 km, with around 9 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 14 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 14mDoor to door
  • 30mMoving
  • €11.88From
  • 2.0 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 14 September 2026

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

Cheapest€11.88
  1. GTS Rail Operations GT957114:0034m14:34Reading StationPutney station

Door to door 1h 18mCO2 2.0 kgChanges 0Refundable

Fastest€12.44
  1. South Western Railway SW448414:4730m15:17Reading StationPutney station

Door to door 1h 14mCO2 2.0 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

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

Putney is small enough to walk across, so almost anywhere central works. We still do not sell the room.

A hotel room

A room in Putney for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Reading to Putney

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

  1. €11.8890 days
  2. €11.8860 days
  3. €11.8845 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €11.8821 days
  6. €11.8814 days
  7. €11.887 days
  8. €15.193 days
  9. €20.691 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 74 percent. The dearest point is €20.69, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
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. €11.88Sun
  2. €11.88Mon
  3. €11.88Tue
  4. €11.88Wed
  5. €14.09Thu
  6. €11.88Fri
  7. €11.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Reading

Rail
  • Reading Station
  • Winnersh Station
  • Reading West
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 60 km against 52 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 Worthing, Brighton, Swindon, High Wycombe. The gap between arriving and leaving is 57 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 Reading at 06:15 and the last at 14:47, across 9 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Reading to Putney

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 Reading to Putney take?

The Train from Reading to Putney takes 1h 14m door to door, of which 30m is spent moving. The route runs 60 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 Reading to Putney cost?

The Train from Reading to Putney starts at €11.88 for one passenger, checked on 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €15.19. 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 Reading to Putney?

3 operators run the Train from Reading to Putney: Great Western Railway, GTS Rail Operations, South Western Railway. Between them they file around 9 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 Reading to Putney use?

The Train from Reading to Putney leaves from Reading Station and arrives at Putney 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 Reading to Putney?

Fares for the Train from Reading to Putney bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 74 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Reading to Putney produce?

The Train from Reading to Putney produces about 2.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 60 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 Reading to Putney?

Operators on the Train from Reading to Putney publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 14m 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.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Reading to Putney on 9 September 2026: 60 km of route against 52 km in a straight line, 9 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 1h 14m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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