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Discounted travel is only available on journeys where East Midlands Trains is the primary train operator. For travel between Derby and Nottingham, CrossCountry Trains, who are the primary train operator on this route, will be offering the cheap day off peak return fare for travel any time throughout the day, which reduces the cost of peak time travel by 7%.

For further information, to download a timetable or to sign up for future updates, visit www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/nottingham.

Notes to Editors

For media enquiries, please contact East Midlands Trains on 01738 442111. Out of office hours: An on-call service operates for urgent media enquiries out of hours. To access this service, please call 08448 222888 and quote MEDIA1. Please leave a short message, including your name, media organisation, phone number and the nature of your enquiry. The on call press officer will then return your call.

For a selection of East Midlands Trains images visit www.flickr.com/photos/eastmidlandstrains.

East Midlands Trains

- East Midlands Trains, part of the Stagecoach Group, runs fast, frequent trains from and to London St Pancras International and key UK destinations throughout the East Midlands, including Leicester, Derby, Sheffield, Nottingham, Manchester and Liverpool.

- East Midlands Trains is currently investing over GBP 40 million to improve stations across its network and every single passenger train within its fleet.

- East Midlands Trains is committed to offering great value fares. Use the Best Fare Finder to search for cheap train tickets and book cheap train tickets to London and on more than 400 routes across the UK.

Stagecoach Group

--  Stagecoach Group is a leading international public transport group, with    extensive operations in the UK, United States and Canada. The Group    employs around 35,000 people, and operates bus, coach, train, and tram    services.--  Stagecoach is one of UK's biggest bus and coach operators with around    8,000 buses and coaches. Around 2.5 million passengers travel on    Stagecoach's buses every day on a network stretching from south-west    England to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The Group's business    includes major city bus operations in London, Liverpool, Newcastle,    Hull, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield and Cambridge. Low-cost coach    service, megabus.com, operates between around 60 towns and cities across    the UK.--  Stagecoach is a major UK rail operator, running the South West Trains,    Island Line and East Midlands Trains networks. It has a 49% shareholding    in Virgin Rail Group, which operates the West Coast inter-city rail    franchise.--  Stagecoach also operates the Supertram light rail network in Sheffield.--  In North America, Stagecoach operates around 2,900 buses and coaches in    the United States and Canada. Megabus.com serves more than 100 cities in    North America. Stagecoach is also involved in operating commuter and    transit services, contracted bus services, charters, sightseeing tours    and a small number of school bus services.