{"id":269311,"date":"2025-08-19T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/railuk.com\/?p=181605"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:13:00","slug":"1-rail-travel-on-all-pay-as-you-go-routes-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269311","title":{"rendered":"\u00a31 rail travel on all Pay As You Go routes in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/railuk.com\/travel\/1-rail-travel-on-all-pay-as-you-go-routes-in-wales\/\" title=\"\u00a31 rail travel on all Pay As You Go routes in Wales\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"485\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19105026\/110321-TfWRail-PayG-SALE-ROUTE-D48-11152x648px-BIL-2_cropped-485x360.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19105026\/110321-TfWRail-PayG-SALE-ROUTE-D48-11152x648px-BIL-2_cropped-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19105026\/110321-TfWRail-PayG-SALE-ROUTE-D48-11152x648px-BIL-2_cropped-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transport for Wales is offering customers a limited-time opportunity to travel on Pay As You Go (PAYG) rail services for just \u00a31.<\/p>\n<p>Running from 19th August until 28th August, this exclusive tap in, tap out promotion is available across the 95 PAYG-enabled stations in South East Wales. This includes all Valleys lines and routes to Bridgend, Maesteg, the Vale of Glamorgan, Abergavenny, and Chepstow.<\/p>\n<p>This \u00a31 per single journey promotion is exclusively available to passengers using PAYG, and excludes all other ticket types.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"NTxd0K4Sbg8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#x1f686;Just \u00a31 a journey - for 10 days only\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NTxd0K4Sbg8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The one-off promotion could see passengers receiving a maximum discount of \u00a33.20 on a single fare journey, adding further reinforcement to PAYG being the cheapest way to travel on Transport for Wales\u2019 services in the Metro area.<\/p>\n<p>Transport for Wales was the first train operator outside of London and the South East of England to introduce this paying system last year and it has become their fastest selling product.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales, Ken Skates, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany customers across Southeast Wales are already benefiting from the fastest, easiest and cheapest fares through TfW\u2019s Pay As You Go (PAYG) service. This limited time \u00a31 fare provides a great opportunity for those passengers not using the service to give it a go, with many journeys on new trains as a result of our \u00a3800m investment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd of course with the introduction of PAYG across North Wales coming soon, more and more people will get the opportunity to benefit from cheaper fares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexia Course, TfW Chief Commercial Officer said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Pay As You Go (PAYG) service offers our customers the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to travel on our network, with the added flexibility of being able to tap in and tap out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince launching last year, Pay As You Go has become our fastest selling ticketing product. Through this exclusive and time-limited summer campaign, we\u2019re offering customers the ability to travel between any of our PAYG-enabled stations for just \u00a31 per single journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that this promotion will really encourage existing and new customers to give PAYG a try, travel on our services through the cheapest means possible and inspire confidence in using the technology more regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhilst this ticketing method is currently exclusive to South Wales for the moment, we are excited to be exploring how we can roll it out across North Wales as a part of the Network North Wales project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: TfW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/railuk.com\/travel\/1-rail-travel-on-all-pay-as-you-go-routes-in-wales\/\" title=\"\u00a31 rail travel on all Pay As You Go routes in Wales\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.railuk.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/19105026\/110321-TfWRail-PayG-SALE-ROUTE-D48-11152x648px-BIL-2_cropped-485x360.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"><\/a>Transport for Wales is offering customers a limited-time opportunity to travel on Pay As You Go (PAYG) rail services for just \u00a31. Running from 19th August until 28th August, this exclusive tap in, tap out promotion is available across the 95 PAYG-enabled stations in South East Wales. This includes all Valleys lines and routes to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16013,47,16016,913,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-rail-news","category-train-operating-companies","category-travel","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269391,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269311\/revisions\/269391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}