train travel with 2 month old baby

antwilson

Hi,

I was just wondering how babies travel on trains? We are looking at going to york on friday on the train (30 minutes), but dont know how they would travel. do they travel on your knee, in the pram or either? I not in the pram, where do you store the pram? It is quite big when folded so dont think it would fit in a storage compartment!!!

Thanks

daphne_descends

Hi, I took my son on a train for the first time when he was about 12 weeks, I parked the pram in a space by the luggage compartment and sat him on my lap, he was fine there might be a space for a wheelchair you can use (obviously if a wheelchair user needs it you'll have to fold the pram up)

Quentin

Check out whether it would work out cheaper buying a family railcard, and getting the discount it allows for your journey (you will have to buy the baby a half price ticket, though this will also get discounted too).

Details for a 25% discount on a family railcard:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1243375

Krystaltips

You won't have to buy the baby a ticket at all. Children are free until they are 5.

Depending on the type of train, there may be a carriage with drop down seats you can park the pram in, or as someone pointed out there could be a disabled area. If it is a train with a large vestibule where the doors are then you could probably just leave the pram parked there and sit nearby.

I've travelled on many many trains in the last 4 1/2 years and it was only once DD was big enough to walk to her own seat I took to folding the pushchair up and putting it in the luggage area.

antwilson

Quentin wrote: »

Check out whether it would work out cheaper buying a family railcard, and getting the discount it allows for your journey (you will have to buy the baby a half price ticket, though this will also get discounted too).

Details for a 25% discount on a family railcard:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1243375

The tickets are cheaper than the railcard, and the amount of times we use the train its not worth it! We only live an hour and a bit away by car, but the train is 20-30 minutes and is about the same price considering petrol and parking. Thanks anyway though!

Quentin

Krystaltips wrote: »

You won't have to buy the baby a ticket at all. Children are free until they are 5.

You will if you use a family railcard. At least one member of the party must be a child when you use a railcard. (Of course you don't need to buy a baby a ticket normally, only if you are using one as the one child in your party).

foreversomeday

You could also use a sling or carrier and bypass the need for the pram entirely