aid: trainline
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/trainline/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Trainline
kind: company
description: >-
  Trainline plc is Europe's leading independent rail and coach ticket retailer and distribution
  platform, headquartered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange, with the United Kingdom
  as its home market. It aggregates fares, inventory and real-time journey data from 270+ rail and
  coach carriers across more than 40 countries and resells that content through its own consumer app
  and website, through Trainline for Business, and — via Trainline Solutions / Trainline Partner
  Solutions — as wholesale distribution to other travel sellers through its Global API, Agent Tool
  and White Label products. In distribution terms Trainline is an aggregator-reseller sitting between
  the carriers and the traveller: rail has no GDS-equivalent oligopoly and no NDC, so Trainline is
  itself the intermediation layer, holding the carrier connections, the ticket-issuing accreditation
  and the settlement relationships that a competitor would otherwise have to rebuild carrier by
  carrier. Its API posture is honestly gated: the Global API is publicly described as "a modern,
  intuitive RESTful API" on tps.thetrainline.com but there is no developer portal, no public
  reference, no sandbox and no OpenAPI — access requires a commercial agreement reached through a
  sales conversation, and in Great Britain a retailer also needs Rail Delivery Group / Rail
  Settlement Plan third-party retailer accreditation and a bond. The one genuinely open artifact is
  the ODbL-licensed European station database Trainline publishes on GitHub, which maps its internal
  station ids to UIC codes, ATOC/CRS codes and carrier-specific ids.
image: https://tps.thetrainline.com/apple-touch-icon.png
tags:
- Travel
- Rail
- United Kingdom
- Europe
- Booking
- Ticketing
- Distribution
- OTA
- Corporate Travel
created: '2026-07-28'
modified: '2026-07-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: trainline:trainline-global-api
  name: Trainline Global API
  description: >-
    Trainline Partner Solutions' wholesale rail and coach distribution API, sold to travel sellers,
    OTAs, TMCs and corporate booking tools. Trainline publicly describes it as "a modern, intuitive
    RESTful API built on the most up to date tech stack" covering search and browse (quoted at "600
    searches per second"), booking and ticketing, payment in 10 currencies including on-account,
    real-time information on delays, disruption and platform changes, and aftersales — "cancellations
    within an hour, exchanges, changes of journey and refunds" — plus market-specific features such
    as UK SplitSave and seat maps, across ">44.8k stations connected". No public documentation, API
    reference, sandbox, machine-readable specification or self-serve signup is published; the only
    onboarding path is "Get in touch", with a stated average integration time of 12 weeks and
    Trainline-assisted carrier accreditation. No baseURL is recorded here because none is published;
    the host api.thetrainline.com resolves but returns HTTP 401 with a Basic auth challenge on every
    path and is not documented as the Global API endpoint.
  tags:
  - Rail
  - Booking
  - Ticketing
  - Distribution
  - Travel
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tps.thetrainline.com/our-products/global-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thetrainline.com/solutions/api
  - type: Support
    url: https://tps.thetrainline.com/partner-support/
  - type: Website
    url: https://tps.thetrainline.com/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/trainline-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/trainline-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/security
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/trainline-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/security
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/trainline-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/trainline-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/trainline-llms.txt
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/trainline-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/trainline-packages.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/trainline-station-identifiers.yml
- type: JsonSchema
  url: json-schema/trainline-station.json
- type: Website
  url: https://www.thetrainline.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://www.trainlinegroup.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://tps.thetrainline.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://tps.thetrainline.com/our-products/
- type: Support
  url: https://tps.thetrainline.com/partner-support/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.thetrainline.com/terms
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://tps.thetrainline.com/terms-and-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/privacy
- type: Blog
  url: https://tps.thetrainline.com/blog-and-media/
- type: Blog
  url: https://media.trainline.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/trainline
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/trainline-eu
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/trainline-eu/stations
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trainline
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/thetrainline
- type: Support
  url: https://support.thetrainline.com/en/support/home
- type: Partners
  url: https://www.thetrainline.com/about-us/partnerships
- type: Investors
  url: https://www.trainlinegroup.com/investors
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com