Get dropped at the right station.
Alex is driving from Reading to Bristol. You need to get to Cardiff. Partway checks every station along the drive and finds the best place for Alex to drop you, so you can catch a train the rest of the way without sending Alex miles off the motorway.
Free for iPhone. A search takes about ten seconds.
Three steps, about ten seconds.
Tell us about the drive
Where it starts, where it ends, and where you actually need to be. First names are optional, and that's honestly all we ask for.
We check every station on the way
Partway looks up real trains and ticket prices for every station along the route, then weighs each one against just catching a train from where you are now. The best two, three or four make your shortlist.
Alex picks a stop
Tick the stops you're happy with and send Alex one link. Alex sees the places and what each detour adds, never any prices, and picks one with a tap.
A shortlist, not a spreadsheet.
Usually two to four stops, each showing when you'd hop out, which train you'd catch, what the ticket costs, and what you save. Now and then your destination sits close enough to the drive that the best answer is simply being taken there, and that turns up on the list too. If you're curious how we pick, we've written up what makes a station the right place to be dropped off.
A lift saves you money, not time.
We measured real routes before building this. Trains out of big towns are quick, and motorway traffic is not, so a lift rarely gets you there sooner. What it does get you is a cheaper ticket from a better station, and that's exactly what Partway hunts for, right down to splitting the fare in two where that comes out cheaper. If you'd do better just catching a train from where you started, it tells you that straight.
Short reads for the ride.
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The cheaper uni run: drive partway, train the rest
For parents and students staring down September with a full car boot.
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Is it cheaper to drive or take the train?
Often the honest answer is the third option: ride partway, train the rest.
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One car home, friends in different cities
One person drove, everyone lives somewhere else. Pick each drop-off properly.
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Cheaper train tickets from the next station
Why fares work that way, and how much it saved when we checked.
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Can you get on the train at a later station?
What the ticket rules actually say about boarding partway along the route.
No accounts. No creepy stuff.
- There's nothing to sign up for. No email, no password, no profile of you anywhere.
- Alex sees places and detour times. Never prices, and never where you're headed after the drop.
- Everything deletes itself. Searches after 90 days, driver links a month after the trip.
- No ads, no tracking, no cookies on this site.
Get Partway on your iPhone.
It's free on the App Store, made for trains in Great Britain. On a computer? Point your phone's camera at the square and it'll take you there.
