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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.

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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.

Tickets for the whole network

Stoke-on-Trent to ...

If you are travelling to or from Stoke-on-Trent 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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BIRMINGHAM NS split at Stafford (a)
CARLISLE split at Manchester P+Preston V (d) or Warrington BQ+Preston C (a) or Wigan NW C (a)
COVENTRY split at Wolverhampton (d) or Stafford (a)
GLASGOW C split at Wigan NW+Oxenholme* (a)
LANCASTER split at Manchester Piccadilly V (d) or Wigan NW C (a)
LOCKERBIE split at Wigan NW+Oxenholme* (a)
LONDON EUSTON split at Milton Keynes^ (a)
OXENHOLME split at Manchester Piccadilly V (d) or Wigan NW C (a)
PENRITH split at Manchester Piccadilly+Preston V (d) or Wigan NW C (a)
PRESTON split at Manchester Piccadilly V (d) or Warrington BQ C (a)

C Change at Crewe
V Purchase a Virgin Trains Only ticket to Manchester Piccadilly then change
* Not all trains call at Oxenholme
^ Not all trains call at Milton Keynes Central

Use the EMT JOURNEY PLANNER to plan your journey
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Examples

Stoke to Carlisle (via Manchester#) (off-peak (day) return) £58.90
Purchase 3 return tickets : Savings to be made : £17.30
Stoke-Manchester P (Virgin Trains off-peak day return) £10.00 V
Manchester P-Preston (off-peak day return) £10.70
Preston-Carlisle (off-peak day return) £20.90

Stoke to Glasgow C (via Crewe) (anytime return) £164.00
Purchase 3 return tickets : Savings to be made : £60.50
Stoke-Wigan NW (anytime return) £17.80
Wigan NW-Oxenholme (anytime return) £32.70
Oxenholme-Glasgow C (anytime return) £53.00

Stoke to London Euston (anytime return) £246.00
Purchase 3 tickets : Savings to be made : £53.00
Stoke-Milton Keynes^ (anytime return) £156.00
Milton Keynes-London Euston (anytime day single) £18.50 s
London Euston-Milton Keynes (anytime day single) £18.50 s

^ Not all trains call at Milton Keynes Central
# Change at Manchester Piccadilly
V Travel on Virgin Trains with a Virgin Trains Only ticket
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.