Exact date major railway sale is BACK is revealed – with more than 50% off advance & off-peak tickets for six-days
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MORE than two million train tickets will be discounted during a promotion starting next week, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced. Thousands of popular routes across almost all UK train operators, including Transport for Wales and ScotRail, will be offering discounted tickets with journeys spreading the length and breadth of Great Britain.
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Cheaper Advance and Off-Peak tickets will be available to buy in the rail sale between January 14 and 20. They will be sold for travel across Britain between January 17 and the end of March. Passengers in Liverpool could visit London for as little as £7, a journey from Preston to Edinburgh could be as cheap as £8.40, and a ticket from Nottingham to Manchester could cost less than a tenner.
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Examples of price reductions on typical Advance fares - which are the cheapest tickets and must be used on specific trains - provided by the DfT include:. Sale tickets will be available on a limited basis. The only operators in Britain not participating in the sale are Hull Trains, Lumo and Merseyrail.
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The DfT said passengers saved around £5.8 million during a similar scheme a year ago, when more than 600,000 tickets were sold. This was worth £5.1 million in fares revenue and resulted in "an extra 440,000 journeys taken by train", according to the department.
The DfT added that it "tasked the rail industry to deliver an even bigger sale" for 2025. The sale delivers on the government’s commitment to put passengers at the heart of rail services and to raise living standards as part of the Plan for Change so working people have more money in their pockets.
