Raileasy offer a chance to win Glastonbury Festival tickets

& places still available on the special Glastonbury Express trains

By Scott Williams | Published: Fri 20th May 2011

Glastonbury Festival 2011 - around the festival site (01)
Photo credit: Chris Mathews

Glastonbury Festival 2011

Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June 2011
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£195 - SOLD OUT
Daily capacity: 175,000

For those people who didn't get a ticket to the sold out Glastonbury Festival, Raileasy, Glastonbury's official rail partner, are offering a pair of tickets in a competition.

around the festival site (01)
Raileasy have been given a pair of tickets by Festival organisers, the Eavis', and the competition is running on the Raileasy website which also offers Festival goers the opportunity to travel on the Glastonbury Express rail service from London, Preston, Bolton, Manchester, Crewe and Stoke-on-Trent.

So, if you weren't one of the lucky ones first time around, don't despair, ­you may still be in with a chance of getting a ticket. And you'll also win travel to and from the Festival on the special Glastonbury Express trains, courtesy of Raileasy.

To enter the competition (click here).

For those who have already got their Glastonbury Festival tickets, but haven¹t arranged travel yet, places are still available on the special trains,­ one sets off from Preston and one from London. So whether travelling from north or south ticket holders can still join the party on the Glasto trains. As an extra bonus, all trains will be met at the station by coaches, which will then transfer Festival ticket holders to the Glastonbury site for free. Rail tickets prices start from £60*. To book your seat on the train head to glastonbury.raileasy.co.uk.

eFestivals are also running a competition to win a pair of tickets to Glastonbury Festival here.

Pyramid Stage headliners are U2, Coldplay, and Beyonce. Other acts confirmed include Primal Scream, Mumford & Sons, Queens of the Stone Age, Morrissey, Biffy Clyro, BB King, Wu Tang Clan, Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Tinie Tempah, Rumer, Pendulum, Plan B, Paul Simon, Laura Marling, Don McLean, The Low Anthem, Fleet Foxes, Bright Eyes, The Wombats, The Vaccines, The Kills, Brother, White Lies, Friendly Fires, Jimmy Eat World, Jessie J, Kaiser Chiefs, Eels, TV on the Radio, Bombay Bicycle Club, Noisettes, Cee Lo Green, Chase & Status, Jimmy Cliff, DJ Shadow, Glasvegas, The Streets, Crystal Castles, Wild Beasts, Gruff Rhys, Caribou, Big Audio Dynamite, Warpaint, Brit Floyd, Deacon Blue, Suzanne Vega, Fatboy Slim, Professor Green, Pete Tong, Annie Mac, John Digweed, Subfocus & ID, Melanie, Terry Reid, System 7, Asian Dub Foundation, Lee Scratch Perry, Stereo MC's, The Wombles, Netsky, Bobby Friction, Gorillaz Sound System, Iration Steppas, Mark Thomas, Billy Bragg, Folkface, RSVP, Shlomo's Glasto Circus, Tony Benn, and many more. There are a few more of the smaller stages to be announced, and a few special guests to be confirmed.

To see the line-up in full, along with the latest rumours for some of the other stages, click here >> or to view it as a list click here.

Other attractions will include hands on craft, self-sufficient skill-learning, Hiroshima Peace Flame (burning since 1946), The Rabbit Hole, The Free University of Glastonbury, Mavericks Late Night Cabaret, Strummerville, Cubana Salsa Tent, Hurly Burly, Climate Camp Tripod Stage, HMS Sweet Charity, 'Babylon Uprising' Market Sound System, Arcadia, MP Caroline Lucas, The Dragon Field Underground Piano Bar, The Treehouse Café, The Cider Bus, White Ribbon Alliance Tattoo Parlour, The Crow's Nest Open Mic, The Pilton Palais cinema tent, The Worthy Farm Solar Array, Glastonbury FM, Worthy FM, sound artist Maria Marzaioli, The Glastonbury Firelighter daily newspaper and much, much more!

For detailed information on all aspects of the festival, click here.

*NB: Glastonbury Charter Trains Routes & Prices

West Coast Route ­Outwards on Wednesday 22nd June 2011 with return journey on Monday 27th June 2011
Preston Station depart 10.00 (arrive back 16.00) £93
Bolton Station depart 10.25 (arrive back 15.36) £90
Manchester Piccadilly depart 10.52 (arrive back 15.09) £87
Crewe Station depart 11.34 (arrive back 14.27) £70
Stoke on Trent Station depart 11.56 (arrive back 14.05) £60

Fares include guaranteed reserved seating on the train plus coach transfers from Cranmore to Glastonbury and return.

Train to start the outward journey at 10.00 from Preston arriving at Cranmore Station about 16.00hrs

Return journey on Monday morning departing Cranmore at 10.00, arrival times indicated above.

London Route ­ outwards on Thursday 23rd June 2011 with the return journey on Sunday 26th June 2011.

Train to depart from Euston at 16.00, direct to Cranmore station arriving at 18.30 - £70

The return journey to London will be from Frome station rather than Cranmore due to engineering work at 18.00 on Sunday evening, arriving back at London Euston at 20.20.





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