Trains across Britain and Ireland

NaN routes and 35 operators across 2 countries Fares and travel times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.

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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 October 9, 2026, the cheapest fare is €11.88 and the fastest trip is 1h 11m door to door. A median route runs 93 km.

Checked October 9, 2026Priced for October 9, 2026One passenger, all fees included

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Routes
Countries
When to book
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Questions

The network

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

Door to door

How the modes compare across Britain and Ireland

Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in Britain and Ireland, priced on October 9, 2026 for one passenger.

Median fare, median door-to-door time and median carbon per passenger, over the corridors of Britain and Ireland where each mode runs.
Mode	Corridors priced	From	Door to door	CO2
Coach	13	€10.07	2h 6m	2.6 kg
Train	16	€13.27	1h 29m	3.2 kg

Routes

The corridors that matter in Britain and Ireland

Ranked by how much service runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.

The busiest routes we sell in Britain and Ireland, priced on October 9, 2026 for one passenger with every fee included.
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
Leeds to Sheffield train	€11.88	1h 11m	46 km
Archway to Milton Keynes train	€11.88	1h 21m	68 km
Oxford to Slough train	€11.88	1h 14m	53 km
Harrow to Oxford train	€11.88	1h 21m	67 km
Brighton to London train	€11.89	1h 25m	76 km
Oxford to City of Westminster train	€12.99	1h 28m	82 km
Hull to Sheffield train	€13.54	1h 29m	85 km
Nottingham to Leeds train	€15.19	1h 35m	97 km
Northampton to City of Westminster train	€15.19	1h 35m	98 km
Manchester to Birmingham train	€17.39	1h 42m	113 km
Birkenhead to Birmingham train	€19.59	1h 48m	126 km
Leeds to Birmingham train	€22.34	1h 59m	148 km
Leicester to Liverpool train	€22.89	1h 59m	150 km
Islington to Birmingham train	€24.54	2h 7m	162 km

Countries

Countries in Britain and Ireland

Every country in Britain and Ireland we sell in, most routes first.

Routes, places and carriers in each country of Britain and Ireland.
Country	Routes	Places	Operators
United Kingdom	11,300	267	35
Ireland	156	14	1

Booking window

When to book in Britain and Ireland

The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in Britain and Ireland.

€15.743 days
€15.197 days
€11.8921 days
€11.8845 days
€12.4484 days

Cheapest lead time: Across the routes we sampled the typical fare is lowest around 45 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves: The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 25 percent. At the most expensive point the typical fare is €15.74, 3 days out.

Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell by Trains, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
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

Carriers

Rail operators

The carriers with the largest networks inside Britain and Ireland.

TransPennine Express Avanti West Coast Great Western Railway Cross Country Govia Thameslink Railway Arriva Rail North Arriva Cross Country Arriva CrossCountry Caledonian Sleeper Virgin Trains East Coast North TransPennine

Train destinations

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Other ways to travel across Britain and Ireland

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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 October 9, 2026, the lowest fare is €11.88 and the median is €13.27.

Is Trains the fastest way across Britain and Ireland?

On the corridors we priced, train takes a median of 1h 29m door to door, against 2h 6m 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 25 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.

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

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, travel 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.