Glasgow to Oldham train

Trains from Glasgow to Oldham start at €48.18 and take 3h 15m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Glasgow to Oldham starts at €48.18 and takes 3h 15m door to door, run by 1 operator over 337 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 15mDoor to door
  • 2h 31mMoving
  • €48.18From
  • 11.1 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

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

Cheapest€36.09
  1. TransPennine Express TP146606:352h 31m09:06Glasgow CentralOldham Mumps railway station

Door to door 3h 15mCO2 11.1 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Rail 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
TransPennine Express€36.093h 6m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Oldham for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Glasgow to Oldham

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

  1. €44.8890 days
  2. €33.3460 days
  3. €43.2445 days
  4. €45.9930 days
  5. €50.3921 days
  6. €64.1414 days
  7. €92.197 days
  8. €76.793 days
  9. €109.791 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €33.34.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 229 percent. The most expensive point is €109.79, 1 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. €64.69Sun
  2. €48.18Mon
  3. €48.19Tue
  4. €63.04Wed
  5. €64.14Thu
  6. €60.84Fri
  7. €68.54Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Glasgow

Rail
  • Glasgow Central
  • Paisley Gilmour Street
  • Pollokshaws East

Oldham

Rail
  • Oldham Mumps railway station
  • Oldham Central railway station
  • Oldham Werneth 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
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 337 km against 293 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 Blackpool, Southport, Preston, Fylde. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 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. 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 Glasgow at 06:35 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Glasgow to Oldham

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Glasgow to Oldham take?

The Train from Glasgow to Oldham takes 3h 15m door to door, of which 2h 31m is spent moving. The route runs 337 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 Glasgow to Oldham cost?

The Train from Glasgow to Oldham starts at €48.18 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €50.93. 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 Glasgow to Oldham?

1 operators run the Train from Glasgow to Oldham: TransPennine Express. Between them they file around 5 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 Glasgow to Oldham use?

The Train from Glasgow to Oldham leaves from Glasgow Central and arrives at Oldham Mumps 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 Glasgow to Oldham?

Fares for the Train from Glasgow to Oldham bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €33.34. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 229 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Glasgow to Oldham produce?

The Train from Glasgow to Oldham produces about 11.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 337 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Glasgow to Oldham?

Operators on the Train from Glasgow to Oldham publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 15m 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 modeled 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 Glasgow to Oldham on September 10, 2026: 337 km of route against 293 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €48.18, and 3h 15m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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