There are 12 ways to get from Hanover to Chester by train (Eurostar), bus, train, car, car train, plane, or car ferry
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Train via Cologne
best- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbftrain 19 / ...
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intltrain Eil
- Take the train from London Euston to Chestertrain
11h 46m£242–526Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Hanover central bus station to London Victoriabus N1328
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Chester Bus Interchangebus Uk021 / ...
21h 50m£70–119Bus, train
- Take the bus from Hannover Hbf to Dortmund , Busbahnof Steinstrbus
- Take the bus from DORTMUND, Hbf Nordseite, Steinstrasse to LONDON, Victoria Coach Station-Departure Hallbus
- Take the bus from Green Line Coach Station to Gloucester Green Bus Stationbus
- Take the train from Oxford to Birmingham Internationaltrain
- Take the train from Birmingham International to Chestertrain
21h 16m£125–223Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Hanover to Calais-Fréthuncar
- Take the car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestonecartrain
- Drive from Folkestone to Chestercar
11h 11m£269–338Fly Hannover Airport to Manchester Airport, train
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Manchester Airport (MAN)plane HAJ - MAN
- Take the train from Manchester Airport to Chestertrain
7h 49m£123–419Train
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Amsterdam Centraaltrain 77
- Take the train from Amsterdam Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.train
- Take the train from London Euston to Chestertrain
13h 3m£185–435Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Hanover to Calaiscar
- Take the car ferry from Calais to Port of Dovercarferry
- Drive from Port of Dover to Chestercar
12h 13m£159–266Train to Hamburg Airport, fly to Manchester Airport, train
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbftrain
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Manchester Airport (MAN)plane HAM - MAN
- Take the train from Manchester Airport to Chestertrain
7h 36m£99–314Fly Hannover Airport to Birmingham Airport, train
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Birmingham Airport (BHX)plane HAJ - BHX
- Take the train from Birmingham International to Staffordtrain
- Take the train from Stafford to Chestertrain
8h 57m£124–295Fly Hannover Airport to Leeds Bradford International Airport, train
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA)plane HAJ - LBA
- Take the train from Bradford Interchange to Chestertrain
10h 17m£128–333Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Manchester Airport, train
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Manchester Airport (MAN)plane DUS - MAN
- Take the train from Manchester Airport to Chestertrain
8h 13m£129–315Fly Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport, train
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR)plane HAJ - LHR
- Take the train from London Euston to Chestertrain
7h 47m£144–394
Hanover to Chester by train and foot
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Hanover to Chester is to bus which costs £70 - £120 and takes 21h 50m.
The fastest way to get from Hanover to Chester is to train and fly which takes 7h 36m and costs £95 - £320.
No, there is no direct bus from Hanover station to Chester. However, there are services departing from Hanover central bus station and arriving at Chester Bus Interchange via London Victoria. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 21h 50m.
No, there is no direct train from Hanover to Chester. However, there are services departing from Hannover Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Chester via Koeln Hbf, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi and London Euston. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 11h 46m.
The distance between Hanover and Chester is 733 miles.
The best way to get from Hanover to Chester without a car is to train via Cologne which takes 11h 46m and costs £240 - £550.
It takes approximately 11h 46m to get from Hanover to Chester, including transfers.
Hanover to Chester bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Hanover central bus station.
Hanover to Chester train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Hannover Hauptbahnhof station.
The best way to get from Hanover to Chester is to train via Cologne which takes 11h 46m and costs £240 - £550. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs £70 - £120 and takes 21h 50m.
What companies run services between Hanover, Germany and Chester, England?
You can take a train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Chester via Koeln Hbf, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, London St Pancras Intl, and London Euston in around 11h 46m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Hanover central bus station to Chester Bus Interchange via London Victoria in around 21h 50m.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Manchester Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £50–280
Flights from Hannover Airport to Birmingham Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–280
Flights from Hannover Airport to Leeds Bradford International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–340
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Manchester Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £35–220
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £50–300
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Manchester Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £75–390
Flights from Hannover Airport to Manchester Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–370
Flights from Hannover Airport to Birmingham Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £100–300
Flights from Hannover Airport to Birmingham Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £75–360
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £140–260
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Manchester Airport via London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £140–500
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Manchester Airport via London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £65–300
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Manchester Airport via London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–280
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £65–210
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £65–160
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Manchester Airport via Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Friday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £65–160
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £65–150
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Manchester Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- £60–320
Flights from Hannover Airport to Birmingham Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Wednesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- £60–310
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Manchester Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–250
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Manchester Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 57m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £75–360
Flights from Hannover Airport to Birmingham Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £75–360
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £45–130
Flights from Hannover Airport to Leeds Bradford International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £80–400
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Manchester Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £100–220
Flights from Hannover Airport to Birmingham Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £130–160
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Birmingham Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £100–360
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £150–260
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Manchester Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- £60–230
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Leeds Bradford International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £80–400
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £45–140
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £35–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 33m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £70–210
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £28–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £40–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Koeln Hbf to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £55–100
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intl
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £100–170
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +44 (0)345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from London Euston to Chester
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- £60–110
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
Train from Birmingham International to Stafford
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £12–21
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
Train from Stafford to Chester
- Ave. Duration
- 42 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £16–27
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 3447 369 123
- customer.relations@crosscountrytrains.co.uk
- Website
- crosscountrytrains.co.uk
Train from Oxford to Birmingham International
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £30–45
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Birmingham International to Stafford
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £18–26
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- 03333 211 202
- Website
- tfw.wales
Train from Birmingham International to Chester
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £35–65
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
Train from Manchester Airport to Chester
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £19–35
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £117
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Standard fare
- £117
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Amsterdam Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £55–120
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £35–55
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 581 97164164
- info@der-metronom.de
- Website
- der-metronom.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £45–110
- Schedules at
- der-metronom.de
- Phone
- +44 333 311 0039
- contact.wmr@wmtrains.co.uk
- Website
- westmidlandsrailway.co.uk
Train from Birmingham International to Stafford
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £12–35
- Website
- https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 800 200 6060
- enquiries@northernrailway.co.uk
- Website
- northernrailway.co.uk
Train from Bradford Interchange to Chester
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £30–60
- Website
- https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/
- Phone
- +380 98 815 4444
- support@ewe.ua
- Website
- ewe.ua
Bus from Hannover Hbf to Dortmund , Busbahnof Steinstr
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £11–19
- Website
- https://ewe.ua/
- Phone
- +48 77 443 44 44
- bilety@sindbad.pl
- Website
- sindbad.pl
Bus from DORTMUND, Hbf Nordseite, Steinstrasse to LONDON, Victoria Coach Station-Departure Hall
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £45–90
- Website
- https://www.sindbad.pl/en/home
- Phone
- 0345 241 8000
- oxford.enquiries@stagecoachbus.com
- Website
- stagecoachbus.com
Bus from Green Line Coach Station to Gloucester Green Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 7m
- Frequency
- Every 10 minutes
- Estimated price
- £3–4
- Website
- https://www.stagecoachbus.com/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Hanover central bus station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £50–85
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from London Victoria to Chester Bus Interchange
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- £19–35
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.fr
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £7–40
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
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More Questions & Answers
Hanover to Chester bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at London Victoria station.
Chester is 1h behind Hanover. It is currently 8:05 AM in Hanover and 7:05 AM in Chester.
Hanover to Chester train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Köln Hbf station.
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