Fastest€16.29
- First Great Western FG897414:2226m14:48Reading StationWoody Bay railway station
Door to door 1h 10mCO2 1.6 kgChanges 0Refundable
Reading to Brent train
Trains from Reading to Brent start at €11.88 and take 1h 10m at their fastest.
The Trains from Reading to Brent starts at €11.88 and takes 1h 10m door to door, run by 3 operators over 50 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 1h 10mDoor to door
- 26mMoving
- €11.88From
- 1.6 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 11, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Rail operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
The trip ends at Woody Bay railway station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Brent for the night the train gets in
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Reading to Brent
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €10.0790 days
- €10.0760 days
- €10.0745 days
- €10.0730 days
- €10.0721 days
- €10.0714 days
- €10.077 days
- €10.073 days
- €10.071 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 0 percent. The most expensive point is €10.07, 90 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €10.07Sun
- €10.07Mon
- €10.07Tue
- €10.07Wed
- €10.07Thu
- €10.07Fri
- €10.07Sat
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
Brent
Rail
- Woody Bay railway station
- Haste Hill railway station
- Willow Lawn railway station
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
- 75% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 25% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 50 km against 48 km in a straight line, a detour of 4 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Slough, High Wycombe, Weybridge, Staines. The gap between arriving and leaving is 65 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Reading at 06:02 and the last at 14:51, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Trains against the other ways to make this journey
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 1h 10m | 26m | 44m | €11.88 | 1.6 kg | 6 |
| Coach | 1h 30m | 46m | 44m | €10.07 | 1.4 kg | 4 |
| Ferry | 3h 20m | 1h 50m | 1h 30m | €11.88 | 5.8 kg | 6 |
Questions about Reading to Brent
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 Reading to Brent take?
The Train from Reading to Brent takes 1h 10m door to door, of which 26m is spent moving. The route runs 50 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 Brent cost?
The Train from Reading to Brent starts at €11.88 for one passenger, checked on September 11, 2026. A typical fare is €17.12. 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 Brent?
3 operators run the Train from Reading to Brent: First Great Western, Great Western Railway, GTS Rail Operations. 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 Reading to Brent use?
The Train from Reading to Brent leaves from Reading Station and arrives at Woody Bay 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.
Is the Train the best way from Reading to Brent?
Traveling from Reading to Brent by Coach costs €10.07 and takes 1h 30m door to door, against 1h 10m 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 Reading to Brent?
Fares for the Train from Reading to Brent bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 0 percent, measured on September 11, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Train from Reading to Brent produce?
The Train from Reading to Brent produces about 1.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 50 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 Reading to Brent?
Operators on the Train from Reading to Brent publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 10m 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 Reading to Brent on September 10, 2026: 50 km of route against 48 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 1h 10m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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