Date: 01/02/2017

The sale of rail tickets is to undergo a complete overhaul to stop passengers being ripped off and to make the cost of journeys cheaper and easier to understand. Passengers will be offered the cheapest available ticket for a through journey, without having to compare if it would be cheaper to buy individual tickets for each section of the route run by different rail operators, as at present. And travellers will be shown the best available price for a journey, regardless of whether they are buying a return ticket or two single tickets.

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Rail fare rip-off set to end as ticket pricing system gets overhaul

Telegraph

The sale of rail tickets is to undergo a complete overhaul to stop passengers being ‘ripped off’ and to make the cost of journeys cheaper and easier to understand.

Overhaul of UK train ticket pricing to be trialled in May

Guardian

Scheme aimed at making cheapest tickets easier to buy will wipe out overpriced routes and flag up if two singles are cheaper than return

Thrifty Toon fan's 56-ticket Cup ride

BBC News

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