Trains across Britain and Ireland
11,392 routes and 35 operators across 2 countries Fares and journey times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.
11,392 Trains routes run across Britain and Ireland, reaching 273 places in 2 countries through 35 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on 11 October 2026, the cheapest fare is €11.88 and the fastest journey is 1h 14m door to door. A median route runs 93 km.
Trains in Britain and Ireland, in numbers
What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.
- 11,392Routes we sell
- 2,848Corridors
- 273Places served
- 2Countries
- 35Operators
- 10,456Domestic routes
- 64Cross border routes
- 872Routes out of the region
- 93 kmMedian route
- 1,004 kmLongest route
How the modes compare across Britain and Ireland
Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in Britain and Ireland, priced on 11 October 2026 for one passenger.
| Mode | Corridors priced | From | Door to door | CO2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | 12 | €10.36 | 2h 51m | 5.1 kg |
| Train | 16 | €13.82 | 1h 32m | 3.4 kg |
The corridors that matter in Britain and Ireland
Ranked by how much service runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.
| Route | From | Fastest | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield to Manchester train | €11.88 | 1h 14m | 52 km |
| Milton Keynes to Brent train | €11.88 | 1h 19m | 63 km |
| Nottingham to Birmingham train | €11.88 | 1h 23m | 73 km |
| Slough to Milton Keynes train | €11.88 | 1h 18m | 60 km |
| Milton Keynes to Coventry train | €11.88 | 1h 20m | 66 km |
| Southend-on-Sea to London train | €11.88 | 1h 17m | 58 km |
| Oxford to London train | €12.99 | 1h 28m | 83 km |
| Oxford to Archway train | €12.99 | 1h 27m | 80 km |
| Northampton to London train | €14.64 | 1h 35m | 97 km |
| Birkenhead to Birmingham train | €17.94 | 1h 48m | 126 km |
| Islington to Coventry train | €20.14 | 1h 52m | 137 km |
| Islington to Leicester train | €20.14 | 1h 55m | 141 km |
| Leicester to London train | €20.69 | 1h 55m | 143 km |
| Coventry to Leeds train | €21.79 | 2h 1m | 155 km |
| Islington to Nottingham train | €23.99 | 2h 9m | 173 km |
| Derby to Islington train | €24.54 | 2h 12m | 180 km |
Countries in Britain and Ireland
Every country in Britain and Ireland we sell in, most routes first.
| Country | Routes | Places | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 11,300 | 267 | 35 |
| Ireland | 156 | 14 | 1 |
When to book in Britain and Ireland
The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in Britain and Ireland.
- €34.443 days
- €31.147 days
- €20.1421 days
- €15.1945 days
- €20.6984 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Across the routes we sampled the typical fare is lowest around 45 days ahead, at €15.19.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 56 percent. At the dearest point the typical fare is €34.44, 3 days out.
How far people travel to get here
Every origin we sell by Trains, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.
| Distance | Routes | Share | Nearest of them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 200 km | 9,352 | 82% | Archway, 40 km |
| 200 to 600 km | 1,960 | 17% | Cardiff, 200 km |
| 600 to 1,500 km | 80 | 1% | Brighton, 674 km |
Train operators
The carriers with the largest networks inside Britain and Ireland.
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Eurostar
London North Eastern Railway
East Midlands
Lumo
Arriva
London Midland
Northern
Transport for Wales
South Western Railway
Southern
Southeastern
Chiltern Railways
Grand Central
First Great Western
Greater Anglia
ScotRail
GTS Rail Operations
GWR
c2c
Irish Rail
West Midlands Trains
Gatwick Express
Translink
Thameslink Railway
Train destinations
Other ways to travel across Britain and Ireland
Common questions about Trains across Britain and Ireland
How many Trains routes does Orlero sell across Britain and Ireland?
11,392 of them, across 2 countries reaching 273 places through 35 operators
How much does travelling by Trains cost in Britain and Ireland?
On the 16 busiest Trains corridors in Britain and Ireland, priced on 11 October 2026, the lowest fare is €11.88 and the median is €13.82.
Is Trains the fastest way across Britain and Ireland?
On the corridors we priced, train takes a median of 1h 32m door to door, against 2h 51m by Coach. Both figures include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the other end.
Which countries in Britain and Ireland have Trains routes we sell?
United Kingdom, Ireland.
Who runs the Trains services in Britain and Ireland?
Eurostar, London North Eastern Railway, TransPennine Express, Avanti West Coast, East Midlands, Great Western Railway, among 35 carriers we sell across Britain and Ireland.
When should I book travel across Britain and Ireland?
Fares on the corridors we sampled bottom out about 45 days before departure. Booking then rather than 3 days ahead was 56 percent cheaper on this sample.
How far apart are the places we sell in Britain and Ireland?
The median route runs 93 km in a straight line and the shortest is 40 km. The longest we sell is 1,004 km, from Islington to Marseille.
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.
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
- Regions
- A region is a set of countries, and a route counts for it when either end is inside it. Countries are grouped from their ISO code alone, so the map grows with the data and nothing here is drawn by hand.
- The sample
- Fares, journey times and carbon are measured on the 16 highest ranked corridors in this region, spread across it rather than taken from the top, so the figures describe the region and not its busiest country.