There’s a discount sale on train tickets at the moment being offered by East Midland Railway, which does in fact include trips from London. Despite its name as a midlands railway, they run from London St Pancras station as well, connecting up to Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield and beyond.
The rates are £10 for trips from London to destinations up to and including Leicester — and then £15 for trips to destinations north of Leicester.
Those are one-way prices, so double up for the return ticket for standard class tickets.
The offer isn’t to every station though, but most of the key stations most people are likely to fancy a day trip to are included.
£10 tickets are valid to the following stations:
- Corby
- Kettering
- Leicester
- Market Harborough
- Wellingborough
£15 tickets are valid to the following stations:
- Ambergate
- Belper
- Chesterfield
- Cromford
- Derby
- Duffield
- East Midlands Parkway
- Long Eaton
- Matlock Bath
- Nottingham
- Sheffield
- Whatstandwell
- Loughborough
- Matlock
(children pay £5 for any destination)
If you fancy travelling first class, then it’s double again, so £20 each way for trips up to Leicester and £30 each way for trips north of Leicester.
Tickets are valid for travel between 24th July and 9th September 2023 if booked by 19th July 2023 from here.
The prices are subject to availability, but at the time of writing, I am finding a lot of discounted tickets to quite a few destinations.
Summer Sale tickets will not be available on EMR routes on 29th July, 26th and 27th August.
For the full T&Cs, go here.
A full EMR route map is here.
EMR are operated by the same company as Greater Anglia (Transport UK formerly Abellio) so this deal is pretty much the same as the GA “Hare Fares” available last month.
EMR also operates one major route into GA territory (Norwich-Ely-Peterborough & westward) butbut that route wasn’t included in the “Hare Fare” sale (and isn’t included in this sale either)
There’s a key difference, though – unlike the GA Hare Fares, these are special Advance fares (i.e. you can only travel on the train you booked).