Rail service to Bath
A train arriving at the Bath Spa railway station
Trains to Bath take 90 min (£17–£95) from London's Paddington Station
Trains to the Bath Spa rail station leave from London’s Paddington Station at least every hour.
The trip from London takes about 90 minutes.
Single (one-way) tickets from London to Bath cost as little as £17 when purchased a few weeks in advance, or £33–£95 (depending on the departure time) if you buy them within a few days of departure or just prior to embarkation.
There are also frequent trains to the regional hub in nearby Bristol, 15 minutes away.
The Bath Spa train station is actually right downtown, at the curve in the River Avon just a few blocks south of Bath Abbey (and the tourist office, and the Roman ruins) at the center of town.
Trains links
- Nationalrail.co.uk - Covers all of the lines once operated by the (since-privitized) old British Rail, as well as info on all British rail stations, including maps and services. This includes most major British railways, but notably does not cover many urban area light rail systems (such as London, Glasgow, Manchester, Blackpool, Sheffield, and Midland Metro), nor does it cover the Eurostar, Heathrow Express, nor a handful of heritage or privately owned railways. Still, it's the closest thing to one-stop shopping for finding train connections across the mainland U.K. (though not Northern Ireland).
- BritRail passes - Book railpasses good for travel all over Great Britain—or just in parts of all of England or Scotland.Partner
- Eurostar.com - The super-fast train through the Channel Tunnel connecting London with Paris (2.5 hrs.), Brussels (2 hrs.) and—though those hubs—the rest of Europe. » more
- Europetrainsguide.com - General train info from a private site devoted to European rail travel.
- Seat61.com - General train info from a private site devoted to rail travel, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to get from London to just about any other country in Europe via rail.
- Traintaxi.co.uk - Search stations to find out whether they have taxi ranks/stands, and the phone numbers for pre-booking a cab. (Not being updated after April 2016, but still handy.)
- Sleeper.scot - overnight train
- Heritagerailways.com - An association of historic, heritage, and narrow guage railways—many operating steam trains on historic scenic routes. The site is pretty bare-bones, but if you click on a railway and then look for the link in the box below the map (not teh name on the map itself), you can get to the website for that heritage rail line, train museum, or tourist train
- Train map - A rail network map courtesy of Nationalrail.co.uk.
