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Outward and Inward Travel Days from and to UK

  • September 4, 2025
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We are travelling by train from North Scotland where we live, departing on a Thursday at 5pm from our nearest home station. We will then get the Caledonian Sleeper from Inverness to London arriving on Friday morning. We then get the Eurostar at midday on Friday from London to Paris.  We will do the reverse coming back for our inward journey. So, three joined train journies with a few hours in between each train in London and Inverness. All reservations have been made for the Sleeper and Eurostar.

With the 1 day rule for both the outward and inward journey in the UK, I believe that the journey described above each way is our 1 day outward and 1 day inward journey, so will only count as one day, even though it goes over 2 days each way, is 3 different trains including a sleeper and takes 24 hours to complete. 

If not, this would seriously disadvantage people like us who live in far corners of the UK and takes time to get to Europe by rail.

Can you also clarify how to just assign just one day to this whole journey each way on the app?

Many thanks.

Best answer by rvdborgt

The journey from the UK to the continent will use 2 outbound days. You can ask customer service for an extra in/outbound, since you live so far north:

https://eurail.zendesk.com/hc/en-001/requests/new

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  • September 4, 2025

The journey from the UK to the continent will use 2 outbound days. You can ask customer service for an extra in/outbound, since you live so far north:

https://eurail.zendesk.com/hc/en-001/requests/new


Many thanks for your advice. We contacted customer service and explained our situation and they added an additional day for both our outward and inward journey. Customer services were really helpful. Thanks again, we have started our trip today, it is already fantastic!