Fares

Find out how much a trip on the East Lancashire Railway costs

We have several different ticket options for your journey on the ELR, depending on how often you’d like to travel.

**Children Go Free in 2025!**

Celebrate Railway 200 with our free ticket offer for children. Each paying Adult is entitled to purchase two free Child One Day Rovers OR Full Line Returns for 3 – 15 year olds, with additional Child tickets to be paid. Simply select the number of Child One Day Rovers (3-15 yrs) you require, and the system will apply the offer to the basket. (Railway 200 Children Go Free offer only applies to standard service Day Rovers and Full Line Returns, and is not valid for Young Persons 16-17 years old).

Kids Go FREE offer ONLY applies to an ‘adult ticket’ on non-event dates. Not valid on Dining Trains or other experiences. The following ticket-holders are also excluded:

• Essential Carers
• ELRPS free tickets
• Caravan & Motorhome members using Buy One Get One FREE offer
• Young Person (16-17 years)

Please note: standard travel (Day Rover / One Full Line Trip) tickets purchased will have a generic departure time, and you can use any service on the day of purchase. Please refer to the published timetable of your day of travel for train times.

In order to purchase a ticket and travel you MUST be over the age of 16. Under 16’s are only permitted to travel with an accompanying responsible adult over the age of 18 years old. Any persons who appear under the age of 18 years old will be asked to prove their age. If found to be under 16 years old they will have to leave the railway immediately.  There are NO exceptions to this rule. 

Special events and experiences are priced differently.

Please note: Advance purchase fares are unavailable for dates when Day Out With Thomas operates. However, it is possible to purchase a ticket for the ‘NON-THOMAS’ services on the day from one of our booking offices or on the train to travel on our scheduled services as indicated in the timetable.