Coleshill Parkway - Derby Season

[muug1982]

Hi,
I'm planning on a number of trips in and around the East Midlands and was hoping a couple of things could be checked for me.

1. Is a Coleshill Parkway - Derby Season ticket valid on journeys via Birmingham and Leicester? (I believe that it is)
2. To travel to Nottingham, could I use this ticket in combination with an East Midlands Parkway - Nottingham ticket.

Thanks in advance

 

[CallySleeper]

Hi,
I'm planning on a number of trips in and around the East Midlands and was hoping a couple of things could be checked for me.

1. Is a Coleshill Parkway - Derby Season ticket valid on journeys via Birmingham and Leicester? (I believe that it is)
2. To travel to Nottingham, could I use this ticket in combination with an East Midlands Parkway - Nottingham ticket.

Thanks in advance

Yes and yes, though re: 1. it might just be how you've worded it but I assume you don't mean CP - Birmingham - Leicester - Derby?

If you really wanted you could also go CP - Nuneaton - Tamworth - Derby if you wished.

 

[muug1982]

Thanks.

It wasn't best worded, although I suppose as Season tickets are valid for stopping short I could do that if I wished. I've got to go to Leicester and back on Monday / Tuesday, Nottingham & back on Weds - Fri and Derby on Sunday, so this feels like the best option, just adding the East Mids Parkway tickets as needed.

Journey time to Derby is virtually the same going via Leicester or via Birmingham

 

[OwlMan]

Yes it is - but don't buy a Coleshill - Derby season a Birmingham (or Walsall) to Derby ticket is the same price.
Select the station that you want from each of the two clusters below (journeys between all stations in the two clusters are the same price)
Cluster 1
1679 BELPER
1691 DUFFIELD
1823 DERBY.
1905 WILLINGTON
1687 PEARTREE
1699 SPONDON
1829 LONG EATON.

Cluster 2
0418 BIRMINGHAM STNS
1112 BOURNVILLE.
4503 FIVE WAYS.
4532 WYTHALL.
1003 BESCOT STADIUM.
1114 SMETHWICK GAL BG
4504 UNIVERSITY BIRM
4533 OLTON.
1004 ASTON.
1121 WATER ORTON
4513 BORDESLEY.
4535 SPRING ROAD.
1010 TAME BRIDGE PWY
1128 PERRY BARR.
4518 TYSELEY.
4536 WOOD END
1011 WITTON W MIDS
1130 CHESTER ROAD.
4519 DANZEY
4537 YARDLEY WOOD
1036 ADDERLEY PARK.
1132 GRAVELLY HILL
4520 EARLSWOOD W MID
4538 THE LAKES
1040 DUDDESTON.
1138 WYLDE GREEN.
4521 HALL GREEN.
4539 WHITLOCKS END
1041 ERDINGTON.
1145 HAMSTEAD BIRMNGM
4523 THE HAWTHORNS.
4540 WOOTTON WAWEN
1042 FOUR OAKS.
1149 SANDWELL & DUDLY
4524 HENLEY IN ARDEN
4595 LAPWORTH
1044 SUTTON COLDFIELD
1150 SMETHWICK RLF ST
4525 DORRIDGE.
4606 ROWLEY REGIS.
1097 JEWELLERY QUARTR
1159 TIPTON.
4526 SHIRLEY W MIDS.
4607 LANGLEY GREEN.
1105 SELLY OAK.
1176 BLAKE STREET.
4527 SOLIHULL.
4641 OLD HILL.
1109 KINGS NORTON.
1179 BUTLERS LANE.
4528 WIDNEY MANOR.
9882 COLESHILL PARKWY
1110 LONGBRIDGE.
1212 DUDLEY PORT.
4529 ACOCKS GREEN.
1111 NORTHFIELD.
1216 WALSALL.
4530 SMALL HEATH.

 

[Qwerty133]

Is another ticket needed for travel via Nortingham?
NRE suggests not.

 

[kieron]

Some people might claim that you are not allowed to end your journey at Nottingham given that you pass through Beeston and Attenborough en route, and would do again if you continued to Derby.

I wouldn't buy the East Midlands Parkway tickets, though. The season ticket is undoubtedly valid to Attenborough, so adding an Attenborough-Nottingham day return would be sufficient for a journey to Nottingham even if the above claim is correct (remembering that, when combining a season ticket with a ticket which isn't a season ticket, the train need not call at the station where you change from one to the other).

A Birmingham-Derby ticket would not be valid via Attenborough, Beeston or Nottingham, incidentally, so muug1982 is better off without one of those.

 

[OwlMan]

It all depends what the OP wishes to do - a return to Nottingham from either Long Eaton or EM P'way is less than £5; A Coventry to Derby season is only £5 more and that allows travel via Stafford & Stoke.
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Some people might claim that you are not allowed to end your journey at Nottingham given that you pass through Beeston and Attenborough en route, and would do again if you continued to Derby.

I wouldn't buy the East Midlands Parkway tickets, though. The season ticket is undoubtedly valid to Attenborough, so adding an Attenborough-Nottingham day return would be sufficient for a journey to Nottingham even if the above claim is correct (remembering that, when combining a season ticket with a ticket which isn't a season ticket, the train need not call at the station where you change from one to the other).

A Birmingham-Derby ticket would not be valid via Attenborough, Beeston or Nottingham, incidentally, so muug1982 is better off without one of those.

Beeston & Attenborough stations are in Nottingham Routeing Group so you are allowed to double back through these for connectional purposes.

The question is whether you are allowed to leave the station at Nottingham as under the "routeing groups rule" you are only allowed there for connectional purposes, it is debateable (and not defined) whether you can break your journey.