Buy tickets for all UK trains and check times - with no booking fees!
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Train tickets and times all in one place
With Northern's simple-to-use mobile app, you can streamline your journey and get tickets straight to your phone. Making your journey contact-free, you can plan and buy tickets for any train journey and view real-time information for any train service.
All this, and no booking fees!
Save 50% on your first app purchase
Sign up and receive a unique code get 50% off your first Advance ticket purchase on the Northern app!
Get your discount codeBenefits of the Northern app
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Paper-free tickets
Real-time travel updates
Apple & Google Pay
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Smart card refunds
Let us show you how to get travel updates
If you are downloading our App for the first time, we’ll ask if you want to get travel updates. The video above shows what this looks like.
If you’re already using our App, you can easily enable notifications by visiting the "My Account" section and enabling travel update notifications. If you're having trouble locating it, no worries! You'll find it in the video above. Happy travels!
Other features to help you on your journey
- Reserve seats for longer journeys, download tickets straight to your phone or collect them from a station in 15 minutes
- The app automatically finds the best fare for your journey - we’ll even remember what you looked at to make it easy next time.
- Our real-time information comes fresh from National Rail Enquiries and lets you check any train service in Great Britain, including ours. Check departure times, platforms (for most places), and find out how trains are running at any National Rail station.
- We’re proud to provide local and regional services with more than 2,500 trains every day operating at over 500 stations in the North of England.
- Buy tickets right up until the moment the train departs.
- Swap your Advance Tickets for as little as £2.50 on the day.
- Quicker refunds on season tickets.
- The promoter of this promotion is Northern Trains Limited (trading as Northern) of George Stephenson House, Toft Green, York YO1 6JT (the “Promoter”).
- The “Promotional Routes” means any of the Promoter’s rail services available to view at https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/app.
- 50% off introductory discount applies to new customers only
- One code per account
- Offer valid on Advance purchase tickets on Northern services only
- Discount code only valid on the Northern app
- Valid for one transaction only
- Up to two children under the age of 5 years may travel free with each adult that holds a Qualifying Ticket.
- All purchases of Qualifying Tickets are subject to the Promoter’s terms and conditions available to view at https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/legal/conditions-of-travel and https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/legal/booking-service-terms-and-conditions.
- A Qualifying Ticket cannot be purchased in conjunction with a Railcard.
- A Qualifying Ticket is valid for travel ONLY on the date and service stated on the ticket and passengers must travel in the Class shown on the ticket.
- Passengers may not start, break and resume, or end their journey at any intermediate station except to change to/from connecting trains as shown on their Qualifying Ticket or other valid travel itinerary.
- Qualifying Tickets are non-refundable. Unless industrial action is announced, when the tickets could be changed in line with our Advance fares. Full T’s and C’s available at: https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/tickets/advance
- The National Rail Conditions of Travel apply for travel on all of the Promoter’s rail services. A copy of the National Rail Conditions of Travel is available at https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/46427.aspx
- The promoter of this promotion is Northern Trains Limited (trading as Northern) of George Stephenson House, Toft Green, York YO1 6JT (the “Promoter”).
- The “Promotional Routes” means any of the Promoter’s rail services available to view at https://www.northernrailway.co.uk
- Valid for members of Network via the following websites;
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- One code per customer
- Offer valid on Advance purchase tickets on Northern services only
- Discount code only valid on the Northern website and App. Claim discount by entering unique PIN in promo box.
- Valid for one transaction only
- Up to two children under the age of 5 years may travel free with each adult that holds a Qualifying Ticket.
- All purchases of Qualifying Tickets are subject to the Promoter’s terms and conditions available to view at https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/legal/conditions-of-travel and https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/legal/booking-service-terms-and-conditions.
- A Qualifying Ticket cannot be purchased in conjunction with a Railcard.
- A Qualifying Ticket is valid for travel ONLY on the date and service stated on the ticket and passengers must travel in the Class shown on the ticket.
- Passengers may not start, break and resume, or end their journey at any intermediate station except to change to/from connecting trains as shown on their Qualifying Ticket or other valid travel itinerary.
- Qualifying Tickets are non-refundable. Unless industrial action is announced, when the tickets could be changed in line with our Advance fares. Full T’s and C’s available at: https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/tickets/advance
- The National Rail Conditions of Travel apply for travel on all of the Promoter’s rail services. A copy of the National Rail Conditions of Travel is available at https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/46427.aspx