Swansea to Gloucester train

Trains from Swansea to Gloucester start at €17.94 and take 1h 46m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Swansea to Gloucester starts at €17.94 and takes 1h 46m door to door, run by 1 operator over 138 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 4, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 46mDoor to door
  • 1h 2mMoving
  • €20.69 to €42.14From
  • 06:33 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 4.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 4, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€20.69 to €42.14 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.

Great Western Railway runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Swansea to Gloucester 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 €42.14Fri18
  2. about €34.99Sat19
  3. about €32.24Sun20
  4. about €23.44Mon21
  5. about €23.44Tue22
  6. about €27.29Wed23
  7. about €25.64Thu24
  8. about €23.44Fri25
  9. about €26.19Sat26
  10. about €23.99Sun27
  11. about €21.79Mon28
  12. about €24.53Tue29
  13. about €20.69Wed30
  14. about €22.34Thu1

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 October 4, 2026

Cheapest€17.94
  1. Great Western Railway GW482106:331h 2m07:35Swansea railway stationGloucester railway station

Door to door 1h 46mCO2 4.6 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Rail operators

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
Great Western Railway€17.941h 46m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Gloucester for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Gloucester railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Swansea to Gloucester

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

  1. €17.3990 days
  2. €14.6460 days
  3. €19.0445 days
  4. €20.1430 days
  5. €19.5921 days
  6. €22.3414 days
  7. €25.647 days
  8. €32.243 days
  9. €42.141 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.64.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 188 percent. The most expensive point is €42.14, 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. €23.99Sun
  2. €21.79Mon
  3. €23.44Tue
  4. €20.69Wed
  5. €22.34Thu
  6. €23.44Fri
  7. €26.19Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Swansea

Rail
  • Swansea railway station
  • Swansea Bay railway station
  • Swansea Victoria railway station

Gloucester

Rail
  • Gloucester railway station
  • Gloucester Eastgate railway station
  • Gloucestershire Parkway railway station
The journey

What the journey looks like

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 138 km against 120 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 Newport, Cwmbran, Cardiff, Bristol. The gap between arriving and leaving is 66 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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 Swansea at 06:33 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 Swansea to Gloucester

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 Swansea to Gloucester take?

The Train from Swansea to Gloucester takes 1h 46m door to door, of which 1h 2m is spent moving. The route runs 138 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 Swansea to Gloucester cost?

The Train from Swansea to Gloucester starts at €17.94 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €21.78. 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 Swansea to Gloucester?

1 operators run the Train from Swansea to Gloucester: Great Western Railway. 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 Swansea to Gloucester use?

The Train from Swansea to Gloucester leaves from Swansea railway station and arrives at Gloucester 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 Swansea to Gloucester?

Fares for the Train from Swansea to Gloucester bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.64. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 188 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Swansea to Gloucester produce?

The Train from Swansea to Gloucester produces about 4.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 138 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 Swansea to Gloucester?

Operators on the Train from Swansea to Gloucester publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 46m 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 Swansea to Gloucester on September 17, 2026: 138 km of route against 120 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €17.94, and 1h 46m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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