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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!

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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.

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Derby to ...

If you are travelling to or from Derby 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 | m = off-peak monthly | a = anytime

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

BERWICK-upon-TWEED split at Sheffield+York (a)
BRISTOL TM split at Birmingham NS+Cheltenham Spa (d/m) or Cheltenham Spa (a)
CARDIFF C split at Cheltenham Spa (d)
DARLINGTON split at Sheffield+York (d) or Doncaster (a)
DONCASTER split at Sheffield (d)
DURHAM split at Sheffield+York (d/a)
EDINBURGH via Crewe split at Crewe (/at)
EXETER SD split at Bristol TM (m) or Birmingham NS+Cheltenham Spa+Bristol TM (m) or Cheltenham Spa (a) or Cheltenham Spa+Bristol TM (a)
LEEDS split at Sheffield (d)
NEWCASTLE split at Sheffield+York (d/a)
NEWPORT SW split at Cheltenham Spa (d)
PENZANCE split at Cheltenham Spa (m/a)
PLYMOUTH split at Cheltenham Spa (m/a)
SWANSEA split at Cheltenham Spa+Cardiff C (d)
TAUNTON split at Birmingham NS+Cheltenham Spa+Bristol TM (m) or Cheltenham Spa (a) or Cheltenham Spa+Bristol TM (a)
YORK split at Sheffield (d/a)

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

Examples

Derby to Cardiff C (off-peak (day) return) £65.60
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £7.80
Derby-Cheltenham Spa (off-peak return) £39.60
Cheltenham Spa-Cardiff C (anytime day return) £18.20

Derby to Edinburgh (via Crewe) (anytime return) £225.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £38.50
Derby-Crewe (anytime return) £23.50
Crewe-Edinburgh (anytime return) £163.00

Derby to Leeds (off-peak (day) return) £31.10
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £11.00
Derby-Sheffield (off-peak day return) £10.20
Sheffield-Leeds (off-peak day return) £9.90

Derby to Plymouth (anytime return) £232.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £95.50
Derby-Cheltenham Spa (anytime return) £61.00
Cheltenham Spa-Plymouth (anytime return) £75.50

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