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I’m booking trains in the UK and I carefully planned out what pass I wanted to get (if I needed a pass, if I wanted to do BritPass or Eurail), decided on the Eurail pass, and looked on the app to find which trains I wanted. I just bought my pass and went to reserve my seats, but the trains that it showed me are “not available on eurail.com” and it tells me to book it through another website. It brought me to acprail, and I was able to find the same train for a small fee, but that site says I need a pass for the train, but I think it means a BritRail pass. Is this the case, or will my Eurail pass work? (If not, then why did Eurail show the train that I’d have to buy a pass from another company to ride??)

 

I’m stressed and confused about this, does anyone know what the deal is? It’s happening for both the trains I wanted to book.

It can be confusing at first! Which trains were you trying to book?

Reservations for day trains in the UK are free of charge, so don't pay for them. Here's information about the best way to make reservations for UK trains. 

https://community.eurail.com/train-connections-reservations-47/how-to-get-reservations-105?postid=11554#post11554

 

In addition, please don't use the rail planner app to plan journeys. For GB, you'd better use https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

It can be confusing at first! Which trains were you trying to book?

Cardiff to Edinburgh and Edinburgh to London. 

You can book them free of charge through gwr.com, have a look at Anna's post.

Not all trains in the UK can be booked but yours are long-distance ones so it's possible

Reservations for day trains in the UK are free of charge, so don't pay for them. Here's information about the best way to make reservations for UK trains. 

https://community.eurail.com/train-connections-reservations-47/how-to-get-reservations-105?postid=11554#post11554

 

Thank you! Definitely helpful, because I was seeing websites with reservation charges. My main concern is just that all the other websites just say you need “a valid pass” but don’t specify at all what passes are accepted, so I mostly want to confirm that if I book on one of these other websites and show up with just my Eurail pass, that’ll be fine, right? I don’t need anything else?

(GWR currently isn’t letting me make an account, but one of my trains is on LNER, which is letting me reserve for free)

If you have a Interrail/Eurail Global Pass or a Interrail/Eurail One Country Great Britain that it is valid there. Brit Pass is of a other company in UK and it is also valid.

Reservations are not linked to the pass. The only problem you could have is that at the ticket check gates they can't check Interrail/Eurail passes in UK. You need to ask the staff at the station to let you go.

 

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