If you regularly travel by train, you can’t fail to have noticed that ticket prices in England and Wales rose by 4.9% earlier this month.…
View More Get a railcard and ditch season tickets: how to beat the rail fare risesTag: Rail industry
LNER simpler fares trial adds more than £100 to some train journeys
Journeys on many intercity trains running from London to Edinburgh are more than twice as expensive since the launch of a “simpler fares” initiative designed…
View More LNER simpler fares trial adds more than £100 to some train journeysCampaigners call for end to ‘peak fare rip off’ on trains in England and Wales
Campaigners are calling for an end to the “peak fare rip off”, where commuters in some parts of the country face far higher mark-ups to…
View More Campaigners call for end to ‘peak fare rip off’ on trains in England and WalesReturn train tickets expected to be scrapped in UK rail shake-up
Return tickets will be scrapped and new digital ticketing introduced under reforms of the British rail system expected to be announced this week. The two-way…
View More Return train tickets expected to be scrapped in UK rail shake-up‘People had to urinate in Pringles pots’: passengers on Avanti travel trauma
It would take a lot to make Arran Kent ditch the train to drive across the country for gigs. The musician, 32, has persisted with…
View More ‘People had to urinate in Pringles pots’: passengers on Avanti travel traumaBiggest UK rail strikes in decades to go ahead after last-ditch talks fail
The biggest rail strikes in three decades will start on Tuesday after late talks failed to break the impasse, with the RMT union leadership warning…
View More Biggest UK rail strikes in decades to go ahead after last-ditch talks failUK train tickets: the great rail sale is on – but is there a catch?
One million half-price rail tickets are up for grabs in the first Great British Rail Sale, which was announced earlier this week. The offer is…
View More UK train tickets: the great rail sale is on – but is there a catch?Rail fares to increase by 3.8% in March
Rail fares in England are to rise by 3.8% in March, the government has confirmed, in line with July’s RPI inflation rate and the biggest…
View More Rail fares to increase by 3.8% in MarchSouth Western left my 16-year-old son stranded at a locked, unstaffed station
A storm was raging when South Western Railway ordered all passengers to alight. The delayed 18.27 London to Exeter service was an hour from its…
View More South Western left my 16-year-old son stranded at a locked, unstaffed stationFlexible rail season tickets in England criticised over savings claims
New flexible rail season tickets will disappoint passengers and fail to bring them back to the railway, passenger groups and campaigners have said as the…
View More Flexible rail season tickets in England criticised over savings claims