Trainline User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience28.3% of reviews
Neutral8.0% of reviews
Negative experience63.7% of reviews

~ Based on 1,277 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Trainline Safe?

Trainline: Cheap Train Tickets appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Trainline is 98/100.

This assessment is based on 10,075 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

97.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 10,075 App Store ratings for Trainline.

Is Trainline Legit?

Trainline: Cheap Train Tickets appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Trainline is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great service

Better than national rail app!

Scam

Absolutely terrible service. My ticket was £50.90 but I paid £56.19 to be able to cancel the ticket. I tried to cancel 30 hours before my journey and the app wouldn't let me cancel. So what exactly did I pay the extra £5.29 for?

Don’t use this for splitting tickets

You get a split ticket from this app which saves you a few quid, but you can do so much better if you use other apps and websites. All of them take a cut of the savings, so I assume this one takes a much bigger cut.

Very Easy to use

Very Easy to use!

My tickets screen bad ux

Once ui components have loaded (even partially) they should not shift position underneath the user. It causes misclicks and frustration

Not helpful

I went on a train today and for some reason my rail card wasn’t working and I had to go on the train so I booked it at the full price expecting them to give me a partial refund or something but they said there is nothing they could do which is unacceptable bc if my railway card is not working what was the point of paying £80 for three years. Honestly I am highly disappointed
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extra charges for convenience of one app.

just seen how much ive been paying in admin fees and additional costs. will just be buying the ticket from train company apps from now on

Ticket tax

Don’t use this app, load of fees that are added on every purchase. Almost 10% more with 0 benefits which tbh is a massive fee for not using the rail companies app.

Do better for the fee you charge

It was great to see the new features rolling out which would justify the extra cost of booking through Trainline - except they failed spectacularly when needed.

My train was cancelled yesterday meaning I would miss my connection. No assistance replanning the journey, couldn’t update my journey to move my seat reservation - journey swap just kept taking me in an endless loop of ticket Ts&Cs - utterly useless. No help on delay repay either.

And I can’t move my reservation today - it’s just listed as ‘unavailable’. But it was easy enough in the old version, this new version is a big step backwards and I hope they fix it soon
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Stop already!

Recently started absolutely incessant marketing notifications with seemingly no way to switch them off. I don’t want to disable notifications for the entire app as they can be useful during a journey, but at this point it’s that or uninstalling.

No help when you miss a connection

My train was late and as a result I missed the connection but no suggestion by the app for alternatives

Wish it could also show how many carriages there are

Good app and easy to use but I wished it could also show how many carriages there are in different trains.

No complaints

Great up the Hebburn

Good for saving money

GREAT VALUES!!!

Tickets cock up

Please make it clear on the journey search results page which options involve an e-ticket (good) and which require collecting a physical ticket from the station (and probably missing your train).

Best Booking Service

Used this quite a lot of work and personal travel, easy to use and book and manage

Booking

Easy and at a great price.

Barely useable

Obese bloatslop, isn’t robust at all

Cheaper than other sites

So easy to use, return tickets for 3 to Liverpool £60 cheaper than elsewhere, over the moon. Done & dusted in less than 5 minutes.

Booking tickets

Excellent