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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 (except for Liverpool-Stafford) 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

Liverpool Lime Street to ...

If you are travelling to or from Liverpool Lime Street 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)

CARLISLE split at Preston (d/a)
COVENTRY split at Wolverhampton (a)
GLASGOW C split at Wigan NW+Oxenholme* (a)
LONDON EUSTON split at Stafford (a) V
MILTON KEYNES split at Stafford (a) V LM
PENRITH split at Preston (d) or Oxenholme* (a)
STAFFORD purchase a Virgin Trains Only ticket (m/a) V
WOLVERHAMPTON split at Crewe# (d)

* Not all trains call at Oxenholme
# Only London Midland trains run direct from Liverpool to Wolverhampton - they all call at Crewe
LM Change at Stafford to a London Midland train with a London Midland Only ticket
V Travel on Virgin Trains to Stafford with a Virgin Trains Only ticket

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

Examples

Liverpool LS to Carlisle (off-peak (day) return) £44.60
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £11.70
Liverpool LS-Preston (off-peak day return) £12.00
Preston-Carlisle (off-peak day return) £20.90

Liverpool LS to Coventry (anytime return) £70.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £14.20
Liverpool LS-Wolverhampton (anytime return) £45.60
Wolverhampton-Coventry (anytime return) £10.20

Liverpool LS to London Euston (anytime return) £277.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £55.00
Liverpool LS-Stafford (Virgin Trains anytime return) £25.00 V
Stafford-London Euston (anytime return) £197.00

Liverpool LS to Milton Keynes (anytime return) £197.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £131.00
Liverpool LS-Stafford (Virgin Trains anytime return) £25.00 V
Stafford-Milton Keynes (London Midland anytime return) £41.00 LM

LM Change to a London Midland train with a London Midland Only ticket
V Travel on Virgin Trains to Stafford with a Virgin Trains Only ticket

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