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| Train fares will go up by an average of 2.3 per cent from 2 January next year, the rail industry has announced. | |
| The increase in regulated fares, which includes season tickets, is capped at 1.9 per cent. | |
| But fares that are not regulated, such as off-peak leisure tickets, can increase by as much as train companies decide. | |
| The Rail Delivery Group, stressed that funding from ticket pricing was reinvested in the railways to improve services. | |
| "We understand how passengers feel when fares go up, and we know that in some places they haven't always got the service they pay for," said chief executive Paul Plummer. | |
| "Around 97p in every pound passengers pay goes back into running and improving services." | |
| Yet Lianna Etkind of the Campaign for Better Transport condemned the increase, warning that some passengers are "finding themselves priced off the railways". | |
| She said: "The train operating companies and the Government need to work closely together to provide fairer, simpler and cheaper fares making sure people are always sold the cheapest ticket available. | |
| "Between 1995 and 2016 passengers have seen average fares increase by 23.5% and much more needs to be done by train operators and the Government to give them a truly affordable railway." | |
| Ms Etkind accused the Government of "dragging its feet" over the introduction of flexible season tickets with "fair discounts" for the eight million part-time workers across the UK. | |
| "It is not right that part-time workers have to buy expensive one-off tickets, or season tickets which they then waste on the days they don't work," she said. | |
| Paul Plummer, chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group which represents train operators and Network Rail, said: "We understand how passengers feel when fares go up, and we know that in some places they haven't always got the service they pay for. | |
| "Around 97p in every pound passengers pay goes back into running and improving services. | |
| "Fares are influenced by government policy, either through government-regulated fares such as season tickets or as a result of the payments train companies make to government. | |
| "This money helps government to support the biggest investment in our railway since Victorian times." | |
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