Legal
Affiliate Disclosure
1. How this site makes money
RailReserve is free to use. We do not charge you a booking fee, and we do not take payment for tickets at all — we cannot, because we are not the ticket seller.
Instead we take part in an affiliate programme. Our links to our booking partner carry an identifier that tells them the visit came from us. If you go on to book, they pay us a commission out of their own margin.
2. What it costs you
Nothing. The fare you pay is the fare our booking partner would have charged you had you gone to them directly. We do not add a mark-up and we cannot change their prices.
3. Does it change what you see?
No. The routes on this site were chosen because they are commonly travelled, not because they pay more. We do not accept payment to rank one route, operator or destination above another, and there is no paid placement on this page.
The one thing commission does affect is which booking partner we send you to — and we would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. You are always free to book directly with the rail operator instead, and on some routes that may be cheaper.
4. Which links are affiliate links
- the Search trains button;
- every route card in the “Most-booked routes” section;
- any other link on this site that opens our booking partner’s website.
These are marked in the page code with rel="sponsored", which is
the standard way of declaring a paid link to search engines.
5. Who our booking partner is
Booking, payment, ticketing and customer service are provided by a third-party travel company. Their identity is shown on the page you land on when you click through, and their terms and privacy policy apply from that point. See our Terms of Service.
6. Our commitment
- We will not claim to be a ticket seller, agent or operator, because we are none of those.
- We will not invent statistics, reviews or savings figures.
- We will say when a country is not covered rather than showing a lookalike station elsewhere.
- We will keep this disclosure linked from every page.
7. Our partner IDs
For transparency, our Trip.com affiliate identifiers are Alliance ID 8715064 and SID 319826011. They appear in the links we send you to, and they are how the commission is attributed to us.
8. Contact
Questions about how we are paid: bookings@railreserve.online.