Trainline

Trainline Global API

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.

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Documentation
https://tps.thetrainline.com/our-products/global-api/
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Documentation
https://www.thetrainline.com/solutions/api

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Support
https://tps.thetrainline.com/partner-support/
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Website
https://tps.thetrainline.com/
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APIsJSON
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/trainline/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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/