The price of train tickets will be frozen next year, the Government has announced.
A billion journeys will benefit from the freeze – saving passengers a total of £600m, according to Labour.
It is unclear which journeys will fall under the freeze, but the Government has insisted it will bring down the cost of travel for “existing rail passengers”.
Commuters have faced yearly increases to ticket prices since 1995. Rail fares across Britain rose by 5.1 per cent last year.
According to figures from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), unregulated long-distance advance fares rose by 5.9 per cent in the year ending March 2025, whilst advance fares on south east England trains went up by close to 10 per cent.
Under the new measures, those travelling on a season ticket from Birmingham to London will avoid the £804 increase projected for next year.
Meanwhile, commuters from Newcastle to York will have their fare capped at the current £8,096 rather than having to cough up an extra £468 a year.
Campaigners have consistently warned that train fares continue to rise and called on the Government to take action.
Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union chiefs have repeatedly said that bringing outsourced contracts back in house and moving towards a re-nationalisation of the railway could help make enough savings to fund a fare freeze of passengers.
The RMT have gone on strike several times calling for better pay and conditions. They are amongst those who have argued that nationalising the railways would stop profit leaking out to private providers and help bring costs down for passengers. (Photo: Guy Smallman/Getty)In August, the Liberal Democrats also urged the Government to scrap the 2026-27 rail fare rise.
At that time, their transport spokesperson Paul Kohler said that increasing rail fares at all “in the midst of a cost of living crisis” would “be nothing other than a slap in the face to ordinary people”.
In the Chancellor’s autumn budget last year, the cap for the fare increase was set at 4.6 per cent, whilst railcards went up some 17 per cent in March 2025.
The fare freeze marks the first time that a Government have taken such action since the network was privatised in the 1990s, although regional-based freezes have been enforced.
In London, Mayor Sadiq Khan froze TfL fares between 2016 and 2021, and again from 2024 until March 2025.
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Khan argued that the move was a key part of his plan to support Londoners having to deal with the ever-increasing cost of living, whilst political opponents lambasted the policy as a drain on financial resources.
Under the previous Conservative government, rail fare increases for 2023 were capped at 5.9 per cent in a bid to slow down the rapidly ascending prices which were tied to the Retail Price Index (RPI).
The Department of Transport further announced last week that contactless ticketing will be expanded to London Stansted and Southend Airport.
In an effort to streamline and simplify ticket-buying, the tap-in tap-out system will be expanded to 50 stations in December, and more than 90 stations across Greater Manchester and the West Midlands in the next year.
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