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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.

Buy your tickets online here

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

Crewe to ...

If you are travelling to or from Crewe 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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BLACKPOOL N split at Wigan NW (d/a)
CARLISLE split at Preston (d) or Wigan NW (a)
COVENTRY split at Wolverhampton (d/a)
GLASGOW C split at Wigan NW (a)
LANCASTER split at Wigan NW (a)
OXENHOLME split at Warrington BQ (d) or Wigan NW (a)
PENRITH split at Warrington BQ+Preston (d) or Wigan NW (a)
WARRINGTON BQ buy a Stoke-Warrington BQ anytime return and get on at Crewe (see example below)

Use the EMT JOURNEY PLANNER to plan your journey
(this will open in a small separate window to help you)

Examples

Crewe to Blackpool N (off-peak (day) return) £34.70
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £8.40
Crewe-Wigan NW (anytime day return) £14.20
Wigan NW-Blackpool N (off-peak day return) £12.10

Crewe to Carlisle (off-peak (day) return) £57.20
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £12.80
Crewe-Preston (off-peak return) £23.50
Preston-Carlisle (off-peak day return) £20.90

Crewe to Glasgow C (anytime return) £164.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £25.80
Crewe-Wigan NW (anytime return) £17.20
Wigan NW-Glasgow C (anytime return) £121.00

Crewe to Warrington BQ (anytime return) £18.60
Purchase 1 return ticket : Savings to be made : £2.70
Stoke on Trent-Warrington BQ (anytime return) £15.90 (valid via Crewe)

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