You’ll find great-value tickets when you buy direct on our website and app, plus you’ll get access to our rewards scheme SWR Rewards and enjoy 2FOR1 offers. With over 150 SWR Rewards available, we can help save you money on theatre tickets, attractions, eating out and hotel stays, so you can make this a spring to remember.
Advance tickets
To help save the pennies and pounds, plan ahead (up to 12 weeks if you can) to get our cheap Advance tickets and save up to 50% on your travel. If they’re not on sale yet for your travel date, sign up to our cheap ticket alerts to be one of the first to know when they’re available and grab them before they’re gone.
Travel off-peak
If you need more flexibility with your travel, we have a great range of ticket types to save you money by travelling on quieter trains.
Off-Peak tickets – the best for days out and weekends away, travelling outside our busiest times
Evening Out tickets – great-value tickets to do something different with your evenings
Sunday Out tickets – make the most of Sundays and forget those dreaded blues
Semi Flex Return tickets – fixed outward journey with the flexibility to return on any day within a calendar month
Railcards and discounts
To save even more on cheap train tickets, see if you can get a Railcard or discount card and get at least 34% off your train travel - in just a few journeys a Railcard can pay for itself!
You can also save up to 34% on train tickets when travelling in a group of 3-9 people with GroupSave.
If 10 or more of you are travelling together you can save with a Group Travel ticket for off-peak journeys.
Buy direct
Ready to start exploring? Book your tickets today with us to pay no booking fee and thanks to our price promise, you won’t find the same ticket cheaper anywhere else or we’ll refund you the difference.
Get the latest offers, news & travel inspiration
The more rewarding way to book your train travel
Thanks – you have now been subscribed to receive emails from South Western Railway
Advance tickets go on sale up to 12 weeks before the date of travel.
For specific prices quoted, a minimum of 1000 tickets per day are available for when booking no later than the deadline quoted.
Availability by train varies and quoted fares will not apply to all trains. Higher fares may apply on selected services, or when booking closer to your departure date.
You can buy Advance tickets up to the day of travel, subject to availability on selected routes.
Advance tickets are for single journeys, so you can mix prices, class of travel and ticket types to suit your needs.
If you have a Railcard, you can save 34% on Advance tickets – but there’s no discount for Network Railcards or Gold Cards.
Child discounts are also available, with or without a Railcard.
Advance tickets are only valid on your booked train(s) and you must only travel between the origin and destination stations on your ticket. Break of journey is not permitted except to change trains.
Advance tickets are currently refundable until 30 September 2022, you can find full details here.
Some journeys may be affected by engineering works - please check here before travelling.
Tickets are sold subject to the National Rail Conditions of Travel. Normal refund conditions apply.
The promoter is First MTR South Western Trains Limited, company number 07900320, registered at 8th Floor, The Point, 37 North Wharf Road, London, W2 1AF ("South Western Railway")
Evening Out and Sunday Out terms and conditions
Evening Out and Sunday Out tickets are generally available as Day Returns, Day Singles and Day Travelcards for travel in Standard Class.
These tickets do not need to be pre-booked so you can buy them just before travel.
Evening Out tickets are only available for travel Mondays – Saturdays, including public holidays; Sunday Out tickets are only available for travel on Sundays.
Evening Out tickets are only valid at certain times of the day, Monday-Saturday, which is summarised below:
Travelling to London Waterloo, or any station in London Zones 1-6, tickets are not valid on trains arriving into London Waterloo before 14:01. On the return journey, not valid for journeys starting before 19:01, or 19:05 if boarding at Vauxhall, and 19:10 at Clapham Junction. These evening time restrictions do not apply to Evening Out Day Travelcards if travelling wholly within London Zones 1-6.
For any other journey, tickets are not valid for journeys starting before 12:01. There are additional time restrictions if boarding at: London Waterloo 16:00-19:01, Vauxhall 16:00-19:05, Clapham Junction 16:00-19:10.
Sunday Out tickets are valid for travel at any time on Sundays.
Child and Railcard discounts are available.
Tickets are refundable. If you buy your ticket through our website, app or at one of stations, we will give you a fee-free refund if you surrender it for before the date it’s valid. If you surrender your unused ticket on, or after, the first date it’s valid, or you buy from another retailer, you will need to pay a £10 administration fee.
Some journeys may be affected by engineering works - please check here before travelling
Tickets are sold subject to the National Rail Conditions of Travel.
The promoter is First MTR South Western Trains Limited, company number 07900320, registered at 8th Floor, The Point, 37 North Wharf Road, London, W2 1AF ("South Western Railway")
Off-Peak and Super Off-Peak tickets terms and conditions
