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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

Milton Keynes Central to ...

If you are travelling from Milton Keynes 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)

BIRMINGHAM NS split at Coventry (a) or use London Midland trains
CARLISLE purchase a ticket to Lockerbie (a) travel via Manchester or Crewe
LANCASTER (via Birmingham B) split at Coventry (a)
LANCASTER (via Crewe C) split at Crewe+Wigan NW (a)
LIVERPOOL LS split at Stafford (a) * V
MANCHESTER PICC (via Stoke-on-Trent) split at Stoke-on-Trent V (a)
OXENHOLME split at Crewe (a) or Crewe+Wigan NW (a)
PRESTON split at Crewe (a)
STAFFORD (via Birmingham B) split at Coventry (a) or use London Midland trains
WARRINGTON BQ (via Birmingham B) split at Coventry (a)
WIGAN NW split at Crewe (a)
WOLVERHAMPTON split at Coventry (a) or use London Midland trains

B Travel via Birmingham change at Birmingham NS
C Change at Crewe
* Travel direct to Stafford on a London Midland train with a London Midland Only ticket and change
V Travel on Virgin Trains forward 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

Milton Keynes to Carlisle (anytime return) £261.00
Purchase 1 return ticket : Savings to be made : £19.00
Milton Keynes-Lockerbie (anytime return) £242.00 (alight/board Carlisle-travel via Manchester or Crewe)

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

Milton Keynes to Manchester P (via Stoke-on-Trent) (anytime return) £193.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £27.50
Milton Keynes-Stoke (anytime return) £156.00
Stoke-Manchester P (Virgin Trains anytime return) £9.50 VM

Milton Keynes to Warrington BQ (via Birmingham) (anytime return) £182.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £60.00
Milton Keynes-Coventry (anytime return) £49.00
Coventry-Warrington BQ (anytime return) £73.00

LM Travel on a London Midland train to Stafford with a London Midland Only ticket and change
VL Travel on Virgin Trains from Stafford with a Virgin Trains Only ticket
VM Purchase a Virgin Trains Only ticket from Stoke-on-Trent (most trains to Manchester run via Stoke-on-Trent)

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