Derby to Nottingham train
Trains from Derby to Nottingham start at £18.65.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Derby to Nottingham on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Trains from Derby to Nottingham starts at £18.65, run by 2 operators over 149 km. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 2h 48mDoor to door
- 1h 17mMoving
- £18.65 to £33.75From
- 4.9 kgCO2
2h 48m
1h 17m
£18.65 to £33.75
4.9 kg£18.65 to £33.75 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
Departure times on this route
Departure times on this route12Go lists the departures it sells between Derby and Nottingham.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £32.34Thu8
- about £33.75Fri9
- about £24.32Sat10
- about £21.02Sun11
- about £20.55Mon12
- about £18.67Tue13
- about £18.65Wed14
- about £21.02Thu15
- about £21.02Fri16
- about £18.65Sat17
- about £19.13Sun18
- about £18.66Mon19
- about £18.65Tue20
- about £18.65Wed21
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
Train operators
The train gets you into Nottingham. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Nottingham for the night the train gets in
Sort by distance from Nottingham and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Derby to Nottingham
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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- £19.13Sun
- £18.66Mon
- £18.65Tue
- £18.65Wed
- £21.02Thu
- £21.02Fri
- £18.65Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Derby
Rail- Derby railway station
- Derby Friargate railway station
- Derby Nottingham Road railway station
Nottingham
- Nottingham
- Nottingham railway station
- Nottingham Victoria railway station
What the journey looks like
- 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 149 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 Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Sheffield, Manchester. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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.
Questions about Derby to Nottingham
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 the Train from Derby to Nottingham take?
The Train from Derby to Nottingham covers 149 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 the Train from Derby to Nottingham cost?
The Train from Derby to Nottingham starts at £18.65 for one passenger, as of 7 October 2026. A typical fare is £21.50. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Train from Derby to Nottingham?
2 operators run the Train from Derby to Nottingham: Arriva Cross Country, Avanti West Coast. The operator table on this page sets out fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Train from Derby to Nottingham use?
The Train from Derby to Nottingham leaves from Derby railway station and arrives at Nottingham. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Train from Derby to Nottingham?
Fares for the Train from Derby to Nottingham bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £18.65. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 73 percent, measured on 7 October 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Train from Derby to Nottingham produce?
The Train from Derby to Nottingham produces about 4.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 149 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Train from Derby to Nottingham?
Operators on the Train from Derby to Nottingham publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
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Related journeys
The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Nottingham is somebody else's catalogue.
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