Trains

Season ticket holders who travel on Great Northern, Thameslink, Northern and TransPennine services may be able to claim back the cost of up to a month's travel as additional compensation following months of disruption.

Commuters who have a Northern train season ticket for routes through Lancashire, Cumbria and Greater Manchester will receive a month's worth of compensation.

Train booking website Takethetrain.co.uk has introduced a hefty £5 booking fee that's already caught some passengers out. If you want to book online without paying a fee, look at other sites instead.

The entire train ticketing system could be overhauled after Britain's rail companies and an independent transport watchdog called for radical changes.

Passengers who are given a penalty fare despite having a genuine reason for not having a valid train ticket will now be able to go to an extra stage of appeal where 'mitigating circumstances' will be considered, the Government has announced.

Toilets in all 18 Network Rail-managed stations will be free to use from next year.

Passengers may face more short-notice cancellations and changes to their train journeys after Network Rail announced some final timetables would only be published six weeks in advance rather than the usual 12.

Passengers are still not being told they could get a cheaper fare at 70% of train station ticket machines, according to a progress report from the Department for Transport into promised improvements to train ticketing.

Train passengers face disruption while travelling over Christmas with more than 250 sets of engineering works planned, plus industrial action on a number of routes.