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Your Cheap Fare Finder

The cheap fare finder from National Rail Enquiries shows the fares for all UK train operators on all routes.

Simply select your preferred dates and time of travel to find the best value fare you can purchase and get great savings on your journey.

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If you are flexible with dates and times for your journey, and can book in advance, you can often achieve huge discounts when buying train tickets. Whether you're travelling for work or leisure, the cheap fare finder is your one-stop shop to finding the best option for your selected point-to-point journey.

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Stay on track with the free National Rail Enquiries App, Great Britain’s number one destination for train timetables and travel information. Get live train times and cheap tickets from all the major train line operators. National Rail Enquiries lets you plan, book and keep up to date with all your train travel in one easy app. Manage your journeys across the Great Britain train network with My Travel, plan new routes with our comprehensive journey planner and receive real time travel updates. Personalised to you, you can check timetables, set up travel alerts, find out about disruptions fast, track your train and save your favourite journeys. You can also search for cheap train tickets. Features: • Click to buy tickets - We link you directly to the train operator so you can find the cheapest fares. No booking or credit card fees. • My Travel – Set up personalised travel updates. Save your favourite journeys and stations. Find the next train departure home and get relevant live updates from across the network at a glance. • Journey Planner - Plan your journeys with up-to-the-minute travel information and track the progress of trains and as well as being alerted to disruptions on the line along your route. • Live Train Times - View real-time departures and arrivals boards for any station in Great Britain. • Progress Tracking - Find out exactly where a train is along a route, from A to B and everything in between. • Watch a Train - Pin a train to My Travel to watch its progress across the network with a single tap. • Real Time Push Notifications - Get timetable disruption alerts sent straight to your phone or watch as they happen. • Wake-up alerts - Avoid missing your stop or getting caught out when the train divides or arrives at its destination. • London Underground and DLR - Plan your journey to or from London Zone 1 Underground and DLR stations. • Taking you from A to B, put in a postcode and get the best route planner to the nearest station • Alert Me - Get notified of your next train, its platform number and any known delays as you approach your departure station Apple Watch integration: National Rail Enquiries also offers an Apple Watch app which syncs with your smartphone. At a glance, learn about any disruption to your travel plans and view all the critical travel info you require, now from the convenience of your wrist. • Up-to-the-minute updates on your favourite journeys. • View live departure information for the station you select, or activate the GPS to access details of stations on lines nearest to you. • View your recent live trains on your watch for live departure information on the move. • Receive notifications of any timetable delays to network rail services. (The Apple Watch is compatible with iPhone 5 and above) National Rail Enquiries gives you live times and all the journey planner information you need about fares so you can buy cheap tickets for all journeys with the major train line operators across Great Britain:     Arriva Trains Wales     c2c     Caledonian Sleeper     Chiltern Railways     CrossCountry     East Midlands Trains     Eurostar     Gatwick Express     Grand Central     Great Northern     Great Western Railway     Greater Anglia     Heathrow Connect     Heathrow Express     Hull Trains     Island Line     London Midland     London Overground     London Underground     Merseyrail     Northern     ScotRail     South West Trains     Southeastern     Southern     Stansted Express     TfL Rail     Thameslink     TransPennine Express     Virgin Trains     Virgin Trains East Coast Find all the information you need about train fares and times then buy the cheapest tickets fast. Enhance your train travel experience - Download the FREE National Rail Enquiries app today. www.nationalrail.co.uk

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Best app to find train timings and plan trips.

Hello, this app is really good and helped me find the right train and board them on time. However, there is a small concern. I have dark mode enabled in iOS 13. Under this theme, the text that is used to search trains is white on white. Please fix this ASAP. Other than some ads on normal user the app is perfect. I hope that white text colour is fixed soon so that I can continue using the dark mode.

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You can create a personalised timetable and download as a PDF document for printing at your leisure. You can create a timetable for up to 3 separate departure or arrival stations and can select the days, dates and travel times to suit you. You can personalise the timetable further to show all or some intermediate stations or the services of particular Train Operating Companies. Timetables are available for the next 12 weeks and will include any known changes to train times.

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• In disruption, additional station-level information is added by the NRCC
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• Details of incidents affecting the rail network are published on the National Rail Enquiries website
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• Find the lowest fares for your journey
• Choose the train company you wish to travel with
• Tweak the dates or times to find even cheaper fares
• Input your journey details
• Choose how you want to travel, either by First or Standard Class
• Our calculator returns the available tickets, with options travelling on different routes where available
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• Includes origin and destination locations, journey times
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• National Rail Enquiries website reaches over 7 million UK adults each month
• These users are actively sourcing information prior to making purchase decisions
• Develop your own application using the same data used on our website
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• Includes information about platforms and disruptions
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• Simple web interface allows the information to be integrated into other devices such as help points
• Plan your journey through our online Journey Planner
• Receive your train times direct to your phone

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• Plan journeys to meetings direct from Outlook Calendar
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• Shows which train company certain tickets are valid with
• Includes info about booking restrictions / refunds
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• From ticket office opening hours to whether there's a cash machine, it's all there
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• We provide timetable and fares information, booking information, refund information, details of special offers, Travelcard and Oyster information, as well as a host of other train travel-related products
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