Outbound and inbound UK rail travel to and from Europe

Taking a day train (or any number of connections needed to complete the journey) from Cornwall to London and Eurostar the same day will be covered by one day of a pass.

Taking the sleeper than a Eurostar the following day will use 2 days, you can do this but it will use your 2 home country days (Inbound/outbound) and you will no longer be able to use your pass for any travel in Britain (including a Eurostar to London) so think carefully about your plan.

Wow AnnaB, thanks for your interest and responses, very interesting! Have you used this logic yourself becuase when I look at the webisite it says that only one journey in your home country both outbound and inbound is covered by the global pass.

My journey time to and from London is approx 2 hrs plus transit to St Pancras so the 24hrs is not an issue, its just the number of actual journeys.

Thanks again,

Johnnie

A journey can be made up of multiple single train rides.

There is also no rule stating that you must make a direct route, for instance if you wanted to leave your home first thing in the morning and visit somewhere else in England before resuming your journey to London for an evening Eurostar to Paris. that would be also perfectly acceptable.

The rule for overnight trains is standard and well understood, a pass day is any train taken between 00.01 and 23.59 (with mobile passes this is automatically calculated to CET) and includes any through train that is scheduled to depart your boarding station before midnight for it’s entire duration. Once you leave a train after midnight, any further connection would require use of the next day on your pass.

In your scenario, you could follow up the local travel and Eurostar with a night train (for example) from Paris to Vienna and all on 1 day of your pass.

You can use any number of trains on the inbound/outbound journeys, see the conditions of use. It is not limited to the trains you can squeeze into one single journey in the rail planner app.

I thought I had read that you could only take one train in and one train out of your country of origin?

As explained above, you can take as many trains as you wish on any 2 days of your choosing within the validity of your pass.

I find the easiest way to manage the In/Out rule is “On up to 2 travel days your home country is included in your Global pass.”.

(These do not have to include any train journey across the border, although they can. So for example you could use it to get to an airport or ferry terminal and then connect to a train at your destination.)

I think my question has been answered by this thread, but as it’s all new to me I want to check!

I need to travel from the Midlands and would like to visit a friend in London seeing as I am going through. So I think the following travel days will work?

Day 1 Birmingham to Paris

Days 2-11 in Europe

Day 12 Paris to London 

Day 14 London to Birmingham 

I think I am using 1 uk travel day out as part of 1 journey (Birmingham to London, London to Paris) then the other uk travel day at the end (London to Birmingham). Is that right?

thank you!!

No, you will use the second uk travel day from Paris to London, thus you either need to either buy a normal ticket for Eurostar from Paris or get a normal ticket from London to Birmingham, You need to check which one is the cheapest. 

As ​@AnnaB said, all travel within the UK will use an inbound/ outbound day. The Eurostar is travel in the UK.

You can take a morning Eurostar to London, and an evening train to Birmingham if you want to spend the day in London, but that’s it.

There are reasonable fares to Birmingham on Chiltern Railways or LNWR/WMR, as well as the main operator Avanti. Especially if you book in advance. That will certainly be the cheapest way if you want to break your journey in London.

Thanks both that’s really helpful 🙂