Written questions

Railways: Tickets

Commons · Question 89805 · Tabled 11 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 18 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Blake Stephenson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press release entitled Cutting-edge rail ticket technology to be trialled across the Midlands and North, published on 1 September 2025, for what reason East Midlands Rail and Northern were

Answer

Answered by Keir Mather, 18 Nov 2025

The routes in the East Midlands and Yorkshire operated by East Midlands Railway and Northern were selected as being areas of the rail network that do not have existing or planned Pay-As-You-Go schemes and with large enough passenger numbers to give statis...