Transport for Wales is launching unlimited rail travel passes
Transport for Wales is launching unlimited rail travel passes this summer to encourage people to travel sustainably when exploring Wales’s beauty.
From the charming harbour town of Tenby to Harlech Castle in the north, customers can experience unlimited off-peak rail travel with four or one-day passes.
Passes also include travel on selected TrawsCymru bus routes – providing customers with more connections and route options.
Unlimited travel
The Explore Wales, Explore North and Mid Wales and Explore South Wales offer 4 days of unlimited rail travel over an 8-day period, while the Explore West Wales and Explore Cambrian offer unlimited travel for one-day.
Victoria Leyshon, Partnership Marketing Manager at TfW said:
“Wales is a beautiful country to explore with lots of attractions and these unlimited rail passes provide visitors and local people with the opportunity to explore using the railway.
“The selection of passes available allow customers to travel from North Wales to South Wales with stops in between, or simply to explore just one region. There’s a pass available for everyone and we hope to encourage people to use them and travel sustainably.”
Passes are available on the TfW website or app, and from ticket offices or onboard from a conductor.
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“Launching?”
That’s a bit of a stretch… The tickets they’ve listed have been around for years. All that’s happened recently is that they’ve massively increased the prices and tinkered with which buses accept them.
For example the “Explore Wales” pass was £109 but is now £149.
Decent products to be fair, but a little disingenuous in the publicity.
Quite. I’ve been buying such tickets for at least 30 years.
£40 price increase and still the can’t travel before 09:30 restriction, which means anyone travelling from English stations would be hard pushed to be anywhere before lunch!
Same old rubbish this, it’s constant these days with young journalists trying to climb the ladder, I get a message on my android that states a train collides with a lorry in a level crossing, read it a bit more and it’s over a year old the story.
TfW are about as good as the late Tory government at recycling things! Explore Wales has been around for years but it is often cheaper to buy regional passes such as the Cambrian Day Ranger. The reason for the “re-launch” is that sales have been very poor as services are so bad, you’re taking your life in your hands to go anywhere on TfW’s rural tracks and hope to get back on the same day (or week). Last Saturday’s Times (sorry Nation Cymru!) carried a glossy leaflet for TfW’s First Class services failing to mention they are only between Cardiff… Read more »
As others have already said these tickets have existed for years. Promotion of them does need improving.
TfW have inherited a lot of problems from Arriva, not least the rolling stock, though. I was travelling on the Aberystwyth to Birmingham International service yesterday and it was only two carriages due to mechanical issues, overcrowded and without air conditioning. These sorts of things put people off.
I also frequently travel between Abergavenny and Crewe and often find the rolling stock to be hopelessly inadequate.
Brilliant business plan though. Overprice and under deliver.
Thankfully they are not running an airport…..
“Tenby to Harlech”!!!!! Where is the line? Haven’t we got to travel into England to get from Tenby to Harlech?
It can take up to 10 hours by train to get from Tenby to Harlech but if you catch the afternoon train from Tenby it takes nearly 17 hours. You start your journey in the afternoon and arrive the next morning at 08.15. Just over 3 hours by car.
£149 is hardly a bargain!
That’s because businessmen are so wealthy these days they consider £149 is cheap. They have no idea!!