Where to book in advance LNER speed train between London and Edinburgh?

3) You should have waited to book with the rail operator (LNER) when they open up ticket sales. You can set up an alert on their website to be notified when tickets go on sale.

I have no experience with Rail Ninja, but have seen many negative reviews.

Book at the official website https://www.lner.co.uk/ It's too early for the schedule to appear. Put your dates in and you'll get a pop-up message "Tickets for this date aren't available yet because we're still finalising our timetables. You can create a Ticket Alert and we'll send you an email when your dates are on sale."

If you can get out now.
Book direct ,dont panic about booking so far ahead either.
Even a few days ahead can give significant savings.
Not entirely appropriate to your trip but I came back from the Lakes to Yorkshire and the National Rail site typically was £40 ish ,I put it through Splitticket App and it was £20.80....on the same trains

Personally I would cancel.and wait for the official website to offer tickets. We bought tickets for our September 2023 trip probably in early June and had no problems.

I would also advise cancelling and booking direct. You will need to wait for the tickets to be released (I generally book a couple of months in advance for this route). There really is no need to book through a third party when you can easily get tickets directly from LNER, and it also makes it easier to get a refund or compensation if the train is cancelled/affected by strike action/significantly delayed etc.

In answer to booking rail tickets six months in advance, you can't. You just have to wait until closer to the date.

if you've bought tickets 6 months in advance then they won't be the cheaper Advance tickets but the full price, always available tickets.

Good luck trying to get your money back

LNER are usually open around 5 to 6 months ahead anyway- currently to the end of May.

If they are aren't open then no one else can sell you tickets as they don't exist yet. Any site that says anything else is selling a lie.

Rail Ninja are nothing but pirates and fraudsters, but your chances of backing out and getting your money back are very remote. They may have sold you for trains that don't exist.

If you can cancel the tickets, do it! You don't want anything to do with Rail Ninja.

Rail Ninja are scammers. So if they haven't yet delivered anything you need to reverse your CC charges now, and then forget you ever heard about them.

You do not need to book train tickets "way in advance". Trains would be useless if that was required. Train travel is mass transit. How far in advance do you book the NY subway? How far in advance do you make appointments are your grocery store?

Trains are used by people to go about their daily business. That is not possible if you need to book months in advance.

Book train tickets with the actual operator. And yes, you can do good deals if you book in advance, but there is no need to book half a year in advance. If you were to rock up to the station in London right now and say "I want a ticket for the next train to Edinburgh" you would get one. But you would pay a high price. Booking a few days before already gets you significant savings, and booking a few weeks in advance even more.

There is no need to book half a year in advance, and there is no need to go through third parties.

The cheapest on London - Edinburgh btw. Is Lumo. Their fares start at 19.90, and you do not need to book half a year in advance to get those...
https://www.lumo.co.uk/

The confusion is that the tickets with the best price are called Advance with a capital A, and people sometimes assume this means that any tickets bought in advance (lower case A) are therefore cheaper.

good luck getting your money back from them. Did they take very much?

Well, I suggest you not try to get your money back, but just contest the CC charges, as they have not delivered any tickets.

Hi -

If you can cancel the current deal and/or reclaim your money, then do so. Book direct with the operator - either LNER or Lumo. As regards LNER I recently bought a cheap ‘Advance’ ticket less than an hour before the train’s departure (long story). That said, I believe Advance tickets become available around twelve weeks prior to departure. (Others may have a more detailed/accurate take on availability, but twelve weeks is a handy rule of thumb). When booking note that ‘Advance’ tickets tie you to a single specific train. Miss that and it’s on you. Also reserve a seat - I don’t believe it costs any extra - at time of booking, as all these trains are nearly always busy and finding an unreserved seat can be difficult.

I’ve never booked with Lumo so can’t offer too much advice, but as far as I am aware, though the ticket prices may be cheaper, there is less choice as the trains run less frequently.

Good Luck!

Ian