The Upcoming
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Cinema
      • Movie reviews
      • Film festivals
    • Food & Drinks
      • News & Features
      • Restaurant & bar reviews
      • Interviews & Recipes
    • Literature
    • Music
      • Live music
    • Theatre
    • Shows & On demand
  • Fashion & Lifestyle
    • Accessories
    • Beauty
    • News & Features
    • Shopping & Trends
    • Tips & How-tos
    • Fashion weeks
  • What’s On
    • Art exhibitions
    • Theatre shows
  • Tickets
  • Join us
    • Editorial unit
    • Our writers
    • Join the team
    • Join the mailing list
    • Fund us
    • Contact us
  • Interviews
  • Competitions
  • Special events
    • Film festivals
      • Berlin
      • Tribeca
      • Sundance London
      • Cannes
      • Locarno
      • Venice
      • London
      • Toronto
    • Fashion weeks
      • London Fashion Week
      • New York Fashion Week
      • Milan Fashion Week
      • Paris Fashion Week
      • Haute Couture
      • London Fashion Week Men’s
  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Instagram

  • YouTube

  • Tumblr

  • RSS


Commuters face 6% rise in rail fares from next year

Commuters face 6% rise in rail fares from next year
28 November 2012
Jane Evans
Avatar
Jane Evans
28 November 2012

Rail fares are set to rise by an average of 4.2% in 2013, with some commuters in England, Scotland and Wales seeing increases of nearly 6% to their travel costs.

Commuters will soon be hit by increased rail fares of up to 6%. Photo: Matt Cornock

Last month the government countered announcements made in August, which set the average increase to rail fares at 6.2%, after David Cameron stepped in and limited such rises to 1% above inflation.

The consumer watchdog, Passenger Focus, reports that 42% of passengers are satisfied that their tickets are value for money. However, that figure has dropped to just 29% of commuters. 

They say the biggest rise of 2013 will be on the Canterbury to London route, which will see a 5.9% increase of £272 for average commuter fares.  However, lower rises of 2.3% will be evident in other areas, and a reduction of £16 will be made to the Shenfield (Essex) to London route.

Passenger Focus chief executive, Anthony Smith, said: “Passengers will feel this pain.  After years of above-inflation fare rises, fresh increases are piling pressure on already high fares. Government and the rail industry must now work together to deliver on the welcome promise to get fare rises in line with inflation.”

A spokesman for the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) responded to this, saying: “It is the government, not train companies, that decides how much season tickets should rise on average each year. Successive governments have instructed train companies every year to increase these regulated fares on average by more than inflation.”

Passenger Focus advises people to check the price of their season tickets. If an increase is impending, they recommend buying before 1st January to save money.

Jane Evans

Related Items

More in

Old Boys

★★★★★
Mersa Auda
Read More

Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me

★★★★★
Andrew Murray
Read More

Capernaum

★★★★★
Catherine Sedgwick
Read More

Cold Pursuit

★★★★★
Sylvia Unerman
Read More

Kalissi autumn/winter 2019 collection catwalk show for LFW

Sardis Jaque
Read More

UNDERAGE autumn/winter 2019 collection presentation for LFW

Fashion Week Team
Read More

Margaret Howell autumn/winter 2019 collection catwalk show for LFW

Fashion Week Team
Read More

Jeremy Loops and James Hersey at the Roundhouse

★★★★★
Daniel McLeod
Read More

A-Jane autumn/winter 2019 collection presentation for LFW

Sardis Jaque
Read More
Scroll for more
Tap

Tickets

Theatre tickets

  • Popular

  • Latest

  • TOP PICKS

  • Babylon Beyond Borders at the Bush Theatre
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Rip It Up: The 60s at Garrick Theatre
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Johnstons of Elgin autumn/winter 2019 collection presentation for LFW
    Fashion weeks
  • Demons
    ★★★★★
    Berlinale
  • Happy Death Day 2U
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Old Boys
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Capernaum
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Cold Pursuit
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Kalissi autumn/winter 2019 collection catwalk show for LFW
    Fashion weeks
  • Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Capernaum
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Cold Pursuit
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Jeremy Loops and James Hersey at the Roundhouse
    ★★★★★
    Live music
  • An interview with Piranhas (La paranza dei bambini) director Claudio Giovannesi
    Berlinale

Instagram

Something is wrong.
Instagram token error.
The Upcoming
Pages
  • Contact us
  • Fund us
  • Join mailing list
  • Join us
  • Our London food map
  • Our writers
  • What, when, why

Copyright © 2018 FL Media Ltd