Minister announces ‘great sale’ of rail tickets

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Rail minister Huw Merriman defends the 4.9% rise in rail fares in March as he announces that more than a million train tickets are to be discounted by up to 50% during a seven-day promotion. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 What we found before is that as more people use the railways then actually it can end up funding itself,

00:05 not just for the rail sale but also for future patronage as well.

00:08 It's our aim to grow our railways so with 50% off, it's such an enticing offer,

00:13 a million tickets, over a million tickets that will be available for people to use.

00:17 We think this is just a great deal, a great sale and we hope that people will take advantage of it.

00:21 When it comes to fare increases, the fare settlement should have been 9% if we'd used the figure that's normally used.

00:29 Instead it will be below 5% so we're trying to share the load between the UK taxpayer that subsidised rail to a large degree

00:36 and also to the passenger.

00:38 But what's most important about this is come and use railways.

00:41 The railways are a brilliant way to see the best of our country, our cities.

00:45 Come and enjoy a break, visit your loved ones.

00:47 You can do so with over a million tickets available at up to half price.

00:51 This is a great offer and we're really excited to launch it.

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