Return tickets could be scrapped in demand-based system as part of wider reforms to ‘broken model’, says transport secretary

Train tickets in Britain could be priced like airline seats under a demand-based system being trialled by the government as part of a wider rail shake-up.

The transport secretary, Mark Harper, announced on Tuesday evening that fares on some long-distance trains run by LNER on the East Coast line will fluctuate according to availability.

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