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Rail fares are set to rise by another 1.6% in January, adding about £100 to the cost of many annual season tickets after an unexpected jump in inflation last month.The passenger watchdog, campaigners and unions have all called on the UK government to abolish the policy of annual fare rises at a time when passenger numbers on the railway have plummeted because of the coronavirus.
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Views sought on Regional Transport Strategy. Cast your mind back to the year 2000 - can you remember how you travelled to, from or within the North East? Travel in our region has transformed in the last 20 years. Back then we had not long said farewell to the green and yellow buses of Grampian Regional Transport. We were eight years away from having the new bus station at Union Square. There was no railway station at Laurencekirk, no terminal extension at the airport, no Diamond Bridge.
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Thousands of passengers could save money on rail fares as 'split tickets' become more common, experts predict.
Buying multiple tickets to split one journey into sections can work out to be cheaper than having a single ticket. Users do not have to change trains, as long as their train stops at the final destination printed on each ticket - but the practice has been 'niche'. Booking site Trainline has now released a SplitSave tool to help find cheaper journeys by splitting trips into legs. 'Split tickets' are legal provided that trains stop at ticket destinations. (Permalink) Rail fare |