.ics calendar event for rail journey

[td97]

The old Crosscountry website used to allow downloading any journey as a .ics calendar event to add to my personal calendar - from the booking engine and without completing a transaction.
The new Crosscountry (well, Trainline) website does not appear to carry over this feature.
Does a different website exist that allows this?

 

[miklcct]

Accessible UK Train Timetables

A blazingly small and fast UK train times journey planner and live departure boards, with bookmarkable URLs as a web app, and offline saving of viewed journeys.

traintimes.org.uk

 

[FuzzyDuck]

You can book any journey on any other TOCs website. I always use SWR and am pretty sure I get a .ics file attached to the email confirmation.

 

[Randomer]

I can think of several that send the file as part of the booking confirmation (Trainsplit does for example) but none that do as you requested and make it available before completing a booking.

Would be very interested if anyone else manages to find one that still offers this.

 

[ta-toget]

Out of curiosity, how do you find this of use?

 

[Randomer]

For me it puts a journey I intend to make in my calendar with an itinerary when using on the day tickets which I don't need to purchase before the day of travel (and have the hassle of changing or paying the admin fee for refund if not used).

It's much easier to remember when planning arrival times etc when I can put it into my work calendar easily and any clashes will show up automatically and puts me as unavailable when others are looking at meeting etc.

 

[miklcct]

For me it puts a journey I intend to make in my calendar with an itinerary when using on the day tickets which I don't need to purchase before the day of travel (and have the hassle of changing or paying the admin fee for refund if not used).

It's much easier to remember when planning arrival times etc when I can put it into my work calendar easily and any clashes will show up automatically and puts me as unavailable when others are looking at meeting etc.

I do that as well.

I can think of several that send the file as part of the booking confirmation (Trainsplit does for example) but none that do as you requested and make it available before completing a booking.

Would be very interested if anyone else manages to find one that still offers this.

https://www.traintimes.org.uk/ does the job perfectly.

 

[td97]

Out of curiosity, how do you find this of use?

I have an open return valid for a month but now know the exact train I want to use for my return.
Also for adding advance journeys purchased from a ticket office to my calendar.

 

[ta-toget]

For me it puts a journey I intend to make in my calendar with an itinerary when using on the day tickets which I don't need to purchase before the day of travel (and have the hassle of changing or paying the admin fee for refund if not used).

It's much easier to remember when planning arrival times etc when I can put it into my work calendar easily and any clashes will show up automatically and puts me as unavailable when others are looking at meeting etc.

I have an open return valid for a month but now know the exact train I want to use for my return.
Also for adding advance journeys purchased from a ticket office to my calendar.

That makes sense.

 

[td97]

Accessible UK Train Timetables

A blazingly small and fast UK train times journey planner and live departure boards, with bookmarkable URLs as a web app, and offline saving of viewed journeys.

traintimes.org.uk

Perfect - just got round to looking at this but exactly what I was looking for thanks