Www.nationalrail.co.uk is the official website of the National Rail. You can do any inquiries of rail ticket, journey plan, rail route map, train times and fares, etc. from this website. National Rail Journey‘s website only provides train inquires information, so you cannot purchase tickets from this website. Association of train operating companies (Preferred as ATOC) used the National Rail title as a generic term before the term National rail came in great Britan. ATOC provides the passenger rail services which are operated in Great Britain before the adoption of the term National Rail.
National Journey planner
For Journey planner, open www.nationalrail.co.uk and get all details of Journey planner menu. Click on About your journey option and get information like Stations & destinations, Rail maps, On the train, Passengers with disabilities, Cyclists, Luggage & animals, and Travel abroad.
Route Maps of the National Rail network
National rail’s website provides a map of the national rail route. If you want to do journey with National rail and need directions for the journey, then you can download geographic and schematic maps of areas, routes and station interchanges for mainland UK including ferry connections. On this route map page, there is provided various types of maps given as follows.
National Rail Network maps: Map shows route on the National Rail network, including ferry & airport links.
National Rail Operators maps: In this map, you can get 2 types of the map which show the routes that train operators on the National Rail network operate.
London Maps: National Rail routes and stations within the Greater London area, together with London Underground, Docklands Light Railway and Croydon Tramlink services and stations is shown by the London Connections.
Regional Maps: In this map, you can get the London’s all outside city map such as Birmingham, Cardiff & Bristol, Glasgow & Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester & Leeds, and Southampton & Portsmouth.
Accessibility maps: This map show stations that have access to platforms without the use of steps, and give an idea of staffing levels.
For tickets: National rail offers five types of tickets booking, such as advance, off-peak, anytime, season, and rovers & rangers. You can do all inquires about tickets like Finding ticket price, Where can you buy tickets? When can you buy tickets? Changing or canceling tickets, Rail and bus tickets, etc. To get full details, visit http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/purchasing_tickets/ticket_types.html
For timetable enquiries from overseas, you can contact National Rail enquiries International on +44 (0)20 7278 5240. Call on 0871 200 49 50 for updated information on train departures and arrivals.
Station services and facilities: You can also do inquiry about stations service and facilities by just selecting station name on service page and get full details of stations service.
Hotel Inquires: You can also do inquiry about hotel offers of London hotels, Birmingham hotels, Edinburgh hotels, Brighton hotels, Cardiff hotels, Manchester hotels, Leeds hotels, Liverpool hotels, Heathrow Airport hotels, Gatwick Airport hotels, Stansted Airport hotels, Glasgow hotels, Nottingham hotels, Southampton hotels, Newcastle hotels, and Norwich hotels.
Source : http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
I always use the high speed service to get to work in the morning; I find it so much easier and it saves so much time so you don’t have to rush!
Emily
NationalRail is a great resource. I wish they would open their system through API so other webmasters will be able to use it on their sites.