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The Great British Rail Sale returns this week – here’s how to get half-price train tickets

Get your mittens on some super cheap trips this winter

Amy Houghton
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Amy Houghton
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The Great British Rail Sale is back, folks. The government last ran the nationwide sale back in 2022 and now UK train travellers will once again be able grab some banging bargains. 

The massive sale gets underway at midnight tomorrow (Tuesday, January 23) and will apply to journeys taking place between January 30 and March 15Customers will be able to get up to half price off certain advance and off-peak rail tickets on routes across England and Wales, as well as on cross-border trips into Scotland.

There will be over a million cheap tickets there for the taking, including £15.30 between Birmingham and Bristol (normally £30.60) and £21 tickets from Portsmouth to Penzance (normally £43). You can get your hands on tickets on the Great British Rail Sale website but one caveat to be aware of is that customers will have to pay full fares on strike days

Rail prices are a non-stop topic of conversation right now. It’s hoped that the upcoming deal will help boost domestic travel but it comes just before train fares are due to rise by 4.9 percent across England on March 3. Elsewhere, off-peak train fares between London and Edinburgh are being scrapped while in some more positive news, London tube prices are being frozen for an extra year

Did you see that Britain’s cheapest train ticket has been revealed - and it only costs 70p?

Plus: the Royal Shakespeare Company is selling loads of cheap tickets right now

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