{"id":355135,"date":"2026-01-06T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355135\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:29:10","slug":"discounts-now-live-on-millions-of-rail-fares-across-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355135\/","title":{"rendered":"Discounts Now Live on Millions of Rail Fares Across the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/railway-news.com\/uk-great-british-rail-sale-offers-discounted-train-fares\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Great British Rail Sale has officially returned<\/a>, with more than three million fares now receiving discounts on journeys spanning the entirety of England, Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Set to run from 06\u201312 January; the sale offers discounted fares on journeys booked between 13 January\u201325 March 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15690874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Embargoed-until-2230-Monday-December-8-GBR-Train-Livery-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A new train wrapped in GBR livery\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The sale will run from 06\u201312 January<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Department for Transport<\/p>\n<p>With a large number of fares planned to see discounts of more than 50% of their usual price, examples include tickets from Manchester Piccadilly to Manchester Airport at 1.20 GBP (down 59% from the usual price of 2.90 GBP), Newcastle to Middlesbrough at 2 GBP (down 62% from 5.20 GBP) and Portsmouth to London Waterloo at 10 GBP (down from 24.60 GBP).<\/p>\n<p>Alex Hornby, Commercial and Customer Director for Northern, said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__quote-text\">Rail is already one of the best and most affordable ways to get around the North and beyond, and the return of the Great British Rail Sale gives our customers a brilliant opportunity to save money while enjoying more days out and trips further afield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__quote-text\">With millions of discounted tickets available and fares as low as \u00a31 between some of the key northern towns and cities, it\u2019s the perfect time to plan ahead and make the most of what our region has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>    \t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Great British Rail Sale has officially returned, with more than three million fares now receiving discounts on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,6016,58,50,133928,3965,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-355135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-great-british-railways","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-rail-fares","tag-sales","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}