One passenger pays £23.85, every fee included. Services cover 234 km and are run by 2 operators across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £23.85, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 28 October 2026
£23.85
- 182%Moves across the booking window
182%12Go issues the ticket, and you book it here on Orlero.
Buying this journey
Pick a departure for Exeter to Birmingham and pay on tickets.orlero.com, our booking site.
The price is the one 12Go sets, with every fee shown before you pay.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £60.60Thu8
- about £62.96Fri9
- about £44.59Sat10
- about £43.64Sun11
- about £37.98Mon12
- about £35.16Tue13
- about £31.39Wed14
- about £42.23Thu15
- about £34.69Fri16
- about £32.34Sat17
- about £34.69Sun18
- about £34.69Mon19
- about £30.44Tue20
- about £29.04Wed21
- about £30.92Thu22
- about £33.27Fri23
- about £33.27Sat24
- about £32.80Sun25
- about £29.04Mon26
- about £28.09Tue27
- about £23.85Wed28
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The train gets you into Birmingham. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Birmingham for the night the train gets in
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When to book Exeter to Birmingham
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £21.9690 days
- £30.9260 days
- £25.2645 days
- £21.5030 days
- £23.8521 days
- £29.0414 days
- £31.397 days
- £44.593 days
- £60.601 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at £21.50.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 182 percent. The dearest point is £60.60, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
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This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Exeter to Birmingham and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.
The shape of it
234 km
225 km as the crow flies, 4% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-east.
Who lives at each end
130,709 → 1,157,603
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
The route
What the journey looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 234 km against 225 km in a straight line, a detour of 4 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Cardiff, Bristol. The gap between arriving and leaving is 72 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
Birmingham is large, and the road in from BHX can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
A car waiting when you land in Birmingham
Settled in advance, so the ride into Birmingham costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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Who runs this route
The train gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Left luggage near Birmingham New Street
Most of the points near Birmingham New Street open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Exeter to Birmingham
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does it take to get from Exeter to Birmingham?
Exeter to Birmingham covers 234 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.
How much does it cost to travel from Exeter to Birmingham?
The cheapest fare from Exeter to Birmingham is £23.85, as of 7 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £33.52. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
What is the cheapest way to get from Exeter to Birmingham?
The cheapest way from Exeter to Birmingham is by train, at £23.85 for one passenger on 28 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Exeter to Birmingham?
Fares from Exeter to Birmingham bottom out around 30 days before departure, at £21.50. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 182 percent, measured on 7 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Exeter to Birmingham?
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Exeter to Birmingham, at £29.04. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 7 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Exeter to Birmingham?
January is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Exeter to Birmingham, at £21.49 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
Who runs services from Exeter to Birmingham?
2 operators sell services from Exeter to Birmingham across 1 mode: Arriva Cross Country, South Western Railway. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
Is there a direct service from Exeter to Birmingham?
0 percent of the services we sell from Exeter to Birmingham are direct. The rest connect at Cardiff, Bristol, with about 72 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Which station or terminal do services from Exeter to Birmingham use?
Services from Exeter to Birmingham by train leave from Exeter Central and arrive at Birmingham New Street. Allow about 44m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
Can I change or refund a ticket from Exeter to Birmingham?
2 of the 2 operators we sell from Exeter to Birmingham allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Where these numbers come from
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
Being on the water gives Birmingham a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips out of Birmingham and across United Kingdom
Day trips that leave Birmingham in the morning and cover a good part of United Kingdom by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Exeter reaches 20 places in 3 countries on services we hold, over distances from 29 to 8,641 km. Birmingham reaches 94 places in 22 countries, from 26 to 11,345 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Exeter
- 20Places you can leave for
- 3Countries
- 6Operators
3
6Arriving in Birmingham
Leaving Birmingham
- 94Places you can leave for
- 22Countries
- 29Operators