London Day Trips by Rail Your Options

The best day trips from London by train and what each offers visitors

By Fiona MacLeod, London travel journalist.

The Options

Within two hours of the major London termini are the cathedrals of Canterbury, Winchester, and Salisbury; the Roman heritage of Bath; the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge; the coastal towns of Brighton, Broadstairs, and Margate; and the specific English countryside that the National Rail network makes accessible without a car.

The Best Choices

The best choices for specific visitor types: Winchester from Waterloo for a cathedral and a market town. Margate from St Pancras for beach and art scene. Cambridge from King Cross for the university experience. Bath from Paddington for Roman baths and Georgian architecture. Each is a different England in two hours from central London.

Fiona MacLeod Coverage

Fiona MacLeod covers London day trips because the accountable travel journalism of London requires covering what London makes accessible as well as what London itself contains, and because the day trip is often the experience that makes the visit to London memorable beyond the city itself.

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