Date: 22/09/2012

RAIL passengers are being overcharged for journeys throughout Scotland because of a failure to scrap long-established anomalies in the fares structure. Travellers could save up to one third of the price by buying two or more tickets for the same journey a practice called split-ticketing but there is no obligation on staff to tell them. Passengers at some stations are also paying similar or higher fares than others further away from the same destination. Now rail watchdogs have called for the urgent removal of the anomalies at a time when train travel in Scotland is booming. With split-ticketing, passengers can buy all the tickets at one time and do not have to leave the train at connecting stations. The impetus for faster action follows new UK Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin pledging to tackle the issue south of the Border and 
also examine anomalies in Scotland

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Split journey fares farce fleeces train passengers

Scotsman

RAIL passengers are being overcharged for journeys throughout Scotland because of a failure to scrap long-established anomalies in the fares structure.