Cheaper, easier, faster travel in the UK
BritRail Passes are prepaid tickets valid for unlimited travel for specified periods of time. They are sold as:- Consecutive Passes, good for a fixed number of days of unlimited British rail travel.
- Flexipasses, for a specified number of days (4, 8 or 15) - not necessarily consecutive - during a longer period, currently two months.
BritRail passes are available for UK, Scotland-only or England-only travel; and as Senior, Youth, Party or Family passes. They are not sold in UK and must be purchased before you arrive.
Because the tickets are prepaid, most of the time, all you have to do is show up on time and hop on the train. If you need to book a seat or sleeper accommodation, you need to do that at a manned railway station. Seats are usually free, as are reclining seats in overnight trains, but there is a charge for sleeper births.
Happily, unless you are partial to traveling during rush hours, you almost never have to book a seat, and there are only a handful of overnight journeys, most of which can be taken as day trips as well.
