One passenger pays £18.65, every fee included. Services cover 147 km and are run by 2 operators across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £18.65, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 14 October 2026
£18.65
- 73%Moves across the booking window
73%12Go issues the ticket, and you book it here on Orlero.
Buying this journey
Pick a departure for Nottingham to Derby 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 £32.34Thu8
- about £31.39Fri9
- about £24.32Sat10
- about £21.02Sun11
- about £20.55Mon12
- about £19.14Tue13
- about £18.65Wed14
- about £20.55Thu15
- about £20.55Fri16
- about £18.65Sat17
- about £19.13Sun18
- about £18.66Mon19
- about £18.65Tue20
- about £18.65Wed21
- about £18.65Thu22
- about £18.67Fri23
- about £18.65Sat24
- about £18.65Sun25
- about £18.65Mon26
- about £18.65Tue27
- about £18.65Wed28
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The train gets you into Derby. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Derby for the night the train gets in
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When to book Nottingham to Derby
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £18.6590 days
- £18.6560 days
- £18.6545 days
- £18.6530 days
- £18.6521 days
- £18.6514 days
- £18.657 days
- £24.323 days
- £32.341 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £18.65.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 73 percent. The dearest point is £32.34, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 7 days ahead, so there is no rush yet.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Nottingham to Derby 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
147 km
22 km as the crow flies, 568% further by the route services take. The bearing runs west.
Who lives at each end
323,632 → 270,468
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 147 km against 22 km in a straight line, a detour of 568 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Manchester, Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Sheffield. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
The fare from EMA into Derby is set by whoever drives it.
A car waiting when you land in Derby
Settled in advance, so the ride into Derby 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 Derby railway station
Most of the points near Derby railway station open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Nottingham to Derby
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 Nottingham to Derby?
Nottingham to Derby covers 147 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 Nottingham to Derby?
The cheapest fare from Nottingham to Derby is £18.65, as of 7 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £21.50. 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 Nottingham to Derby?
The cheapest way from Nottingham to Derby is by train, at £18.65 for one passenger on 14 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Nottingham to Derby?
Fares from Nottingham to Derby bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £18.65. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 73 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 Nottingham to Derby?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Nottingham to Derby, at £18.65. 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 Nottingham to Derby?
November is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Nottingham to Derby, at £18.65 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 Nottingham to Derby?
2 operators sell services from Nottingham to Derby across 1 mode: Arriva Cross Country, Avanti West Coast. 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 Nottingham to Derby?
0 percent of the services we sell from Nottingham to Derby are direct. The rest connect at Manchester, Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Sheffield, with about 61 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 Nottingham to Derby use?
Services from Nottingham to Derby by train leave from Nottingham and arrive at Derby railway station. 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 Nottingham to Derby?
2 of the 2 operators we sell from Nottingham to Derby 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 Derby a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips out of Derby and across United Kingdom
Day trips that leave Derby in the morning and cover a good part of United Kingdom by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Nottingham reaches 32 places in 3 countries on services we hold, over distances from 22 to 8,606 km. Derby reaches 22 places in 1 countries, from 22 to 355 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Nottingham
- 32Places you can leave for
- 3Countries
- 9Operators
3
9Arriving in Derby
Leaving Derby
- 22Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 8Operators