Trainline Reviews

1.2 Rating 548 Reviews
4 %
of reviewers recommend Trainline
1.2
Based on 548 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Postal Service, Own Driver, Courier
On-time Delivery
Greater than 15%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Live Chat, Telephone, Email
Queries Resolved In
Under An Hour
Customer Service
1.1 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process
Difficult
Returns Process
Could Be Better
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Disgraceful, unable to travel due to Covid in the family December 2021, 12 tickets £620. Emailed, emailed and emailed and fobbed off with it’s up to the Swiss Railway company, then you must wait for 3 weeks for a decision. If you book through company it’s THEIR responsibility to process a refund or a credit, not shift the blame. Watch out people before you pay for your tickets!
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Posted 1 year ago
Awful service all they care about is money 💰 pre booked tickets paid over £55 and could hardly step foot on the train was sold wrong ticket first time round and charged £11 to cancel that
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Posted 1 year ago
They gave me a day return instead of open return and would not engage with simply amending the date and time of the tickets which was exactly the same price meaning I had to buy a new ticket. You cannot contact them easily at all and when you do they are unhelpful. I've deleted my Trainline account.
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Posted 1 year ago
If you like complicated then book with trainline. The whole service is corrupt. Customers are expected to cover the cost of rescheduling tickets, even when they have booked insurance. There are so many loopholes they are clearly exploiting to sell you insurance. I booked a ticket with trainline and bought travel insurance. The train got cancelled and I was told I could travel on the next available train. This would not have got me to my destination in time, so I would have to book an earlier service. The earlier service cost an additional amount which trainline refused to pay because it was "out of their control and I would have to go through their insurance provider". When I went through the insurance provider, they refused to pay the claim because the cancellation did not leave me stranded because the ticket was not for a couple of days. I went back to trainline with this and their response was that I would have to contact the train company who cancelled (i.e Avanti west coast). Guess what, they wouldn't refund me because I booked through trainline and not them. Avoid this service and their terrible customer facing team like the plague
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Posted 1 year ago
i paid £50 for a ticket to my family home from London Liverpool st. I got mugged on the way and my very old phone was thrown on the floor and didn’t work. I did not end up using my Trainline ticket because my phone didn’t work. Even though I didn’t use the ticket, I cannot get a refund???? I am a 20 year old working class student who barely gets to see her parents. The customer service were so rude and obviously aren’t payed enough. I’d love a refund, it isn’t money I have to spare, I need it to pay for my flat let alone food. Disgusting company
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Posted 1 year ago
Avoid this company. They hide behind their “policy” and won’t ever issue a refund even when they can’t resolve an issue fast enough and you have to book a ticket with another company. Customer service is terrible.
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Posted 1 year ago
Don’t book first class to London as there are no first class coaches or seats
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Posted 1 year ago
Refund. As anyone had trouble getting a refund back from train line because of a train strike been waiting now about 4 weeks & keep getting fobed off saying it will be in my account in 5 working days as they now the tickets could not be used as their was no trains running as there was a train strike
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Posted 1 year ago
They withold your money and tell you its been refunded. Been chasing a refund for almost 2 months now with no sign of this payment being returned. But apparently I am the lier as according to them the money is in my account. Your system is a joke, your processes are a joke! I paid via my credit card and if my statements prove no money was returned then where the hell is my money!
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Posted 1 year ago
Stay away from these losers. Booked my tickets then they canceled a leg had to rebook at higher cost then they canceled another leg then printed two trips with the same date and no customer service they do not want to refund me for the unused ticket. I had to buy a ticket at the train station to make it back to Zurich. Buy direct from the rail company you do not need a middleman like Trainline it is cheaper
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Posted 1 year ago
ROBBERS, daylight robbery with the prices of tickets these days and the fact that you can only book a ticket a few days before you plan to travel. Stopping people visiting their families and absolutely robbing them when they have to!!!!!! Absolute disgrace I cannot believe this is allowed. I feel so sorry for people who hardly go anywhere these days because they cannot plan ahead and cannot simply afford it. Angry and upset doesn’t cut it!
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Posted 1 year ago
I bought a ticket and cancelled within 5 min on the same day. They said refund will be done ticket price was £19.70 refund was only £9.70 because £10 went toward admin fee!! Don’t you think this is a bit much. I don’t mind paying admin fee but make it reasonable and don’t rob the people that use your service.
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Posted 1 year ago
Their refund policy states: Ticket details Paris Gare de Lyon to Marseille St-Charles, Wed 19 Oct 2022 BUSINESS PREMIERE Exchange and refund free of charge up to 30 minutes after departure. From 30 minutes prior to departure, tickets can be exchanged up to two times (for the same day and the same journey), and are non-refundable after the first exchange. To take a different train, it must be exchanged. Guess what when you cancel they do not refund the entire trip cost... they keep a transaction fee that is not disclosed and that is called fraud... so if you have to cancel beware.
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Posted 1 year ago
I paid for 3 tickets for train with Trainline and finally it resulted there were not available. The company has send a refund of money but the conversion fee were about 100euros. What was not conform here, was the fact that Trainline has charged money instead of just blocked them on my account what is the standard procedure in similar cases. I do not recommend at all this service. I will fight for the refund as I find it very unfair to charge the Customer for the service which was not done at all.
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Posted 1 year ago
All Trainline need to do to resolve this issue is refund me fully because they won’t even transfer my error in putting the wrong date. There is no direct way of contacting Trainline and you are directed to webpages that get you nowhere and just frustrate you till you give up on claiming. Robbing bastards who have no customer care at all, nonsense. My day was ruined and Trainline seems to be devoid of any courtesy. It’s almost impossible to get hold of the company, no email addresses for customers service, no telephone numbers- just frustrating webpage that’s not helpful to anybody. Take the money and run is their policy.
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Posted 1 year ago
One second it's 30 quid for a ticket, one hour later you're having to sell your house for the same journey! Who makes up these prices??
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Posted 1 year ago
I bought a railcard via the trainline for 3 years- senior at 70 pounds. The money was subtracted from my bank account may 16 2022. Activation code for the railcard APP never worked. Long story short - many months of hours of emails and waiting on the phone and I am still without my card. I have been pushed around from pillar to post and railcard will not help as they say I bought the card via TRAINLINE and it’s their responsibility! Extremely poor service.
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Posted 1 year ago
Everything went wrong! I paid way too much online 29 Euros for a 9 Euro fare. Then I couldn't even use the ticket at the train station because didn't have the app or a printer. My email reply was undeliverable and I'm trying unsuccessfully to get a refund. Horrible horrible service. Complete rip- off!
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Posted 1 year ago
Awful experience. Purchased flexible ticket and activated it on first day accidentally while checking it was downloaded correctly. Explained to customer service but they could not care less. They kept repeating about T&Cs without any empathy about this genuine mistake. I would avoid at all cost. At the end I ended up paying more for a promotional product than I would have paid for the daily ticket. Stay away from Trainline.
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Posted 1 year ago
Terrible company happy to take your money but then not give you a refund. Passing the book to a 3rd party company to refund me, phone the 3rd party company and they tell me that trainline should refund me. Neither company want to take responsibility and they are both passing the book. No refund given. Will never use the company again nor recommend
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Posted 1 year ago
Trainline is rated 1.2 based on 548 reviews