New photo Millions of commuters will have to pay extra £100 a year as rail fares rise

Britain's rail fares will increase by an average of 3.1 per cent on January 2, industry body the Rail Delivery Group said.

That means that some people face paying an extra £100 in 2019 despite complaints about delays and the biggest timetable change in living memory hitting rail bosses this year. 

The price hike includes unregulated fares, which are set by train operators, and regulated fares such as season tickets, which are set by the Government in line with July's Retail Prices Index (PRI) measure of inflation.

It means a season ticket for Blackburn to Manchester £58, Swindon to London Paddington by £270 and Brighton to London Victoria by £135.

Speaking from London Bridge station, the Rail Delivery Group's Robert Nisbet said that rising costs including that of fuel was behind the rise.

'We appreciate no-one wants to pay extra but the truth is there are rising costs going on all across the industry,' he told Good Morning Britain, but added: 'It's been a really difficult few months.' 

The rise in fares comes despite commuters consistently complaining of delays across the country this year 

Mr Nisbet also apologised on behalf of the industry for changes to the rail timetable in May which caused chaos for commuters.

But he added that the biggest shift in timetable in living memory was in order to help deliver on investment promises.

'What we're not going to as an industry is apologise for the reason behind that May timetable change,' he said. 'We want as many new stations as we can have and what that requires as investment.'   

Last night a Tory Mp blamed rising prices on trade unionists striking on the train lines. 

A year of strikes and delays will leave many commuters puzzled as to why some are forking out an extra £100 annually for travel

The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union, which has orchestrated crippling strikes across the country, is refusing to ditch the higher measure of RPI of inflation as a starting point for pay negotiations, despite the fact it has been widely discredited. 

Huw Merriman, a member of the Commons transport committee, told the Daily Mail: 'It cannot be right that the rail unions receive a higher wage based on RPI when most passengers, who fund these pay deals, only get pay rises using the lower CPI.

'If the unions are really serious about limiting fare rises, they should accept the same method for setting pay which their passengers are limited to, rather than threatening more strike misery.' 

 

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