What does thetrainline.com track?
Before any consent, thetrainline.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.thetrainline.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- New Relic7 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Branch2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.branch.io, api2.branch.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- trainlinecontent.com14 requestsUnclassified
static.trainlinecontent.com
- usabilla.com1 requestUnclassified
w.usabilla.com
- OneTrust14 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Trustpilot1 requestFunctional
widget.trustpilot.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| context_id | Unclassified | www.thetrainline.com | Session |
| currency_code | Unclassified | www.thetrainline.com | 31 days |
| customerUserCountry | Unclassified | www.thetrainline.com | Session |
| pdt | Unclassified | www.thetrainline.com | 12 months |
| ravelinDeviceId | Unclassified | www.thetrainline.com | 12 months |
| ravelinSessionId | Unclassified | www.thetrainline.com | Session |
| tl_sid | Unclassified | thetrainline.com | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | thetrainline.com | 13 months |
| datadome | Necessary | thetrainline.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 8 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.