GB Rail Rover Guide
Unlimited travel for one day with weekday time restrictions in the Cheshire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester areas encompassing Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, Buxton and
Stoke-on-Trent and on the West Coast Main Line it is valid between Warrington Bank Quay and Crewe.
New fares from 2nd Mar 2025
One day ranger
adult: £31.20
child (5-15): £15.60
16-17 saver: £15.60
railcards ⯆
16 26 SE DI 2T FF H V: £20.75
FF H V child fare: £5.90
Railcards ⯈
Railcard:
16 = 16-25
26 = 26-30
SE = Senior
DI = Disabled
2T = Two Together
FF = Family & Friends
H = HM Forces
V = Veterans
Previous fares ⯈
Previous fares (adult):
2024 - £29.80
2023 - £28.40
2022 - £26.80
2021 - £25.20
2020 - £25.20
2019 - £24.50
2018 - £23.80
2014 - £22.00
time restrictions
Mon to Fri: valid from 09:00 but 2T railcard not valid until 09:30
No restrictions at weekends or bank holidays
route restrictions
Not valid east of Manchester Victoria
train operating companies
Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, London Northwestern Railway, Merseyrail, Northern, TransPennine Express, Transport for Wales
purchasing
Online: X
Train conductor: ✔ *
Station ticket office: ✔
Ticket Vending Machine (TVM):
i
Northern Ticket Vending Machines now sell most ranger and rover tickets but at the moment only for same-day travel (rather prohibitive for distant areas)
Some Avanti West Coast station TVMs for example Crewe, now sell local rangers and rovers.
LNER TVMs at Doncaster, Edinburgh, London King's Cross, Newcastle and York also sell them.
A number of PTE areas sell local rangers from TVMs in their area e.g. South Yorkshire, Strathclyde and West Midlands
* valid ticket to travel is required unless boarded at a station without ticket-issuing facilities
This ticket is valid at these national network stations:
Acton Bridge; Adlington; Aigburth; Alderley Edge; Alsager; Altrincham; Ardwick; Ashburys; Ashley
Bache; Bebington; Belle Vue; Bidston; Birchwood; Birkenhead Central; Birkenhead North; Birkenhead Park; Birkenhead Hamilton Sq; Bramhall; Bredbury; Brinnington; Broadbottom; Broad Green; Bromborough; Bromborough Rake; Brunswick; Burnage; Buxton
Capenhurst; Chapel-en-le-Frith; Chassen Road; Cheadle Hulme; Chelford; Chester; Congleton; Conway Park; Cressington; Crewe; Cuddington
Davenport; Deansgate; Delamere; Denton; Dinting; Disley; Dove Holes
Earlestown; East Didsbury; Eastham Rake; Eccles; Edge Hill; Ellesmere Port
Fairfield; Flixton; Flowery Field; Frodsham; Furness Vale
Gatley; Glazebrook; Glossop; Godley; Goostrey; Gorton; Greenbank; Green Lane; Guide Bridge
Hadfield; Hale; Halewood; Handforth; Hartford; Hattersley; Hawarden Bridge; Hazel Grove; Heald Green; Heaton Chapel; Helsby; Heswall; Holmes Chapel; Hooton; Hough Green; Hoylake; Humphrey Park; Hunts Cross; Huyton; Hyde Central; Hyde North
Ince & Elton; Irlam
James Street
Kidsgrove; Knutsford
Lea Green; Leasowe; Levenshulme; Little Sutton; Liverpool Central; Liverpool Lime Street; Liverpool South Parkway; Longport; Lostock Gralam
Macclesfield; Manchester Airport; Manchester Oxford Road; Manchester Piccadilly; Manchester Victoria; Manor Road; Marple; Mauldeth Road; Meols; Middlewood; Mobberley; Moorfields; Moreton; Mossley Hill; Mouldsworth
Nantwich; Navigation Road; Neston; New Brighton; New Mills Central; New Mills Newtown; Newton for Hyde; Newton-le-Willows; Northwich
Overpool
Padgate; Patricroft; Plumley; Port Sunlight; Poynton; Prestbury
Rainhill; Reddish North; Reddish South; Roby; Rock Ferry; Romiley; Rose Hill Marple; Runcorn; Runcorn East; Ryder Brow
Sandbach; Sankey for Penketh; Shotton; Spital; Stanlow & Thornton; St Helens Junction; St Michaels; Stockport; Stoke-on-Trent; Strines; Styal
Trafford Park
Upton; Urmston
Wallasey Grove Road; Wallasey Village; Warrington Bank Quay; Warrington Central; Warrington West; Wavertree Technology Park; West Allerton; West Kirby; Whaley Bridge; Whiston; Whitchurch; Widnes; Wilmslow; Winsford; Woodley; Woodsmoor; Wrenbury
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