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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.

Tickets for the whole network

Wigan North Western to ...

If you are travelling to or from Wigan North Western 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
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BIRMINGHAM NS split at Crewe (a)
CARLISLE split at Preston (d) or Lancaster (a)
GLASGOW C split at Oxenholme* (d/a)
LOCKERBIE split at Oxenholme* (d/a)
LONDON EUSTON (via Birmingham#) split at Wolverhampton (a)
LONDON EUSTON (via Crewe^) split at Crewe (a)
MILTON KEYNES (via Crewe^) split at Crewe (a) (use LM train from Crewe to save even more)
NORTHAMPTON split at Crewe (d/a) LM
NUNEATON split at Crewe (d/a) LM
PENRITH split at Preston (d)
RUGBY split at Crewe (d/a) LM

STAFFORD split at Crewe (a)
WOLVERHAMPTON split at Crewe (a)
* Not all trains call at Oxenholme
# Travel via Birmingham change at Wolverhampton or Birmingham NS
^ Change at Crewe
LM Change at Crewe to a London Midland train with a London Midland Only ticket

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

Examples

Wigan NW to Glasgow C (off-peak (day) return) £69.20
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £24.90
Wigan NW-Oxenholme* (off-peak day return) £16.00
Oxenholme-Glasgow C (off-peak return) £28.30

Wigan NW to London Euston (via Birmingham#) (anytime return) £282.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £55.00
Wigan NW-Wolverhampton (anytime return) £61.00
Wolverhampton-London Euston (anytime return) £166.00

Wigan NW to London Euston (via Crewe^) (anytime return) £282.00
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £37.80
Wigan NW-Crewe (anytime return) £17.20
Crewe-London Euston (anytime return) £227.00

Wigan NW to Northampton (off-peak (day) return) £53.60
Purchase 2 return tickets : Savings to be made : £23.40
Wigan NW-Crewe (anytime day return) £14.20 LM
Crewe-Northampton (London Midland super off-peak return) £16.00

* Not all trains call at Oxenholme
# Change at Wolverhampton or Birmingham NS
^ Change at Crewe
LM Change at Crewe to a London Midland train with a London Midland Only ticket

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