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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

Stafford to ...

If you are travelling to or from Stafford 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
(this will open in a small separate window to help you)

GLASGOW C split at Crewe+Wigan NW (a)
LANCASTER split at Warrington BQ (a)
MILTON KEYNES (via Birmingham*) split at Coventry (a)
OXENHOLME split at Crewe+Warrington BQ (d) or Crewe+Wigan NW (a)
PENRITH split at Crewe+Wigan NW (a)
PRESTON split at Warrington BQ (a)
WIGAN NW split at Crewe+Wigan NW (a)

* Travel via Birmingham change at Wolverhampton or Birmingham NS

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

Examples

Stafford to Glasgow C (anytime return) £176.00
Purchase 4 tickets : Savings to be made : £19.20
Stafford-Crewe (anytime day single) £9.30 s
Crewe-Wigan NW (anytime return) £17.20
Wigan NW-Glasgow C (anytime return) £121.00
Crewe-Stafford (anytime day single) £9.30 s

Stafford to Milton Keynes (via Birmingham*) (anytime return) £113.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £48.20
Stafford-Coventry (anytime return) £15.80
Coventry-Milton Keynes (anytime return) £49.00

Stafford to Oxenholme (off-peak (day) return) £51.20
Purchase 3 return tickets : Savings to be made : £10.80
Stafford-Crewe (off-peak day return) £9.80
Crewe-Warrington BQ (anytime day return) £10.60
Warrington BQ-Oxenholme (off-peak day return) £20.00

* Change at Wolverhampton or Birmingham NS
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.