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Advance Tickets

Before purchasing your rail tickets you should first check to see if there are any advance tickets available for your journey as they are normally the cheapest. Advance tickets can still be available up to the day before travel.

Have a look at our
ADVANCE TICKET GUIDE
to see just how easy it is to locate and buy cheap advance rail tickets, you could save yourself a fortune!

London Midland

LM operate trains between London Euston, the Midlands, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Crewe and Liverpool. Fares on London Midland Trains are much less than on fast Inter-City trains but they are a lot slower, if you like sitting on trains and have plenty of time you can save some money by purchasing London Midland tickets.

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Many online rail ticket retailers charge processing fees. When you buy your rail ticket with EAST MIDLANDS TRAINS you pay NO booking fee, NO credit card charge and NO postal delivery charge and you can purchase tickets for the whole network.

Tickets for the whole network

Coventry to ...

If you are travelling to or from Coventry look to see if you can find a cheaper fare by splitting your tickets as indicated in the panel below.
Ticket information applies : d = off-peak day | a = anytime

Use the EMT JOURNEY PLANNER to plan your journey
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CARLISLE split at Preston (d/a)
CREWE split at Wolverhampton (d/a)
GLASGOW C split at Oxenholme* (a)
LANCASTER split at Wigan NW (a) or Wolverhampton+Crewe+Wigan NW (a)
LIVERPOOL LS split at Wolverhampton (a)
MANCHESTER PICCADILLY split at Stafford (d/a)
OXENHOLME split at Wigan NW (d/a)
PENRITH split at Preston (d) or Wigan NW (a) or Wolverhampton+Crewe+Wigan NW (a)
PRESTON split at Wolverhampton (d/a)
STOKE-on-TRENT split at Wolverhampton (d) or Stafford (a)
WARRINGTON BQ split at Wolverhampton (d/a)

* Not all trains call at Oxenholme

Use the EMT JOURNEY PLANNER to plan your journey
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Examples

Coventry to Carlisle (off-peak (day) return) £80.70
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £10.80
Coventry-Preston (off-peak return) £49.00
Preston-Carlisle (off-peak day return) £20.90

Coventry to Crewe (anytime return) £70.50
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £27.50
Coventry-Wolverhampton (anytime return) £10.20
Wolverhampton-Crewe (anytime return) £32.80

Coventry to Manchester Pic (off-peak return) £41.20
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £6.70
Coventry-Stafford (off-peak return) £14.50
Stafford-Manchester Pic (off-peak return) £20.00

Coventry to Oxenholme (off-peak (day) return) £68.50
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £9.60
Coventry-Wigan NW (off-peak return) £42.90
Wigan NW-Oxenholme (off-peak day return) £16.00

Coventry to Stoke-on-Trent (anytime return) £64.00
Purchase 3 tickets : Savings to be made : £38.80
Coventry-Stafford (anytime return) £15.80
Stafford-Stoke-on-Trent (anytime day single) £4.70 s
Stoke-on-Trent-Stafford (anytime day single) £4.70 s

s There are no anytime returns between these stations only anytime day single tickets which are only valid on the date on the ticket

Not all ticket types will result in savings being made.
The above examples were correct at January 2012.