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Rail fares index, Great Britain

The ORR's index of rail fares in Great Britain each year since 1995 (1995 = 100), for all tickets and for regulated standard class fares, with the Retail Prices Index beside them, and the latest year's change on the year before.

Rail fares index, all tickets

296.5

2026 · fares changed by −0.02% on 2025, the Retail Prices Index by 4.1%

Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 14:54 UTC
Rail fares index, Great Britain
  • Regulated standard class fares
  • All tickets
  • Retail Prices Index
0100200300199520012007201320192026

Source: Office of Rail and Road. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data table

32 periods, newest first

PeriodRegulated standard class faresAll ticketsRetail Prices Index
2026257.0296.5280.0
2025257.3296.6268.9
2024246.2282.3260.6
2023234.2268.9249.9
2022221.7254.4220.1
2021213.9242.7202.0
2020208.7239.8199.0
2019203.2234.2193.7
2018197.6227.8189.0
2017191.4221.3181.8
2016188.0218.7177.1
2015186.4217.2174.9
2014182.0212.6173.0
2013176.7207.1168.3
2012169.5198.6162.9
2011159.6187.1156.8
2010150.0176.5149.2
2009150.6175.3143.8
2008142.0163.0143.7
2007135.2153.6138.0
2006129.1145.5132.5
2005124.0137.5129.4
2004118.7131.3125.4
2003114.1126.2122.2
2002111.9122.5118.7
2001111.7120.1117.2
2000111.2117.2114.1
1999111.0113.5111.9
1998108.9109.2109.3
1997105.3105.2105.8
1996102.9102.6102.9
1995100.0100.0100.0

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Source and licence

Publisher
Office of Rail and Road
Check it yourself
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/finance/rail-fares/table-7180-average-change-in-fares-by-regulated-and-unregulated-tickets/
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Retrieved
9 November 2026, 14:50 UTC
Raw files fetched

Verification

Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 14:54 UTC Run at 9 November 2026, 14:54 UTC; 96 of 96 figures matched the live source.

ResultCheckDetail
PassProvenance recordedOffice of Rail and Road; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-09T14:50:23Z; 2 raw file(s)
PassRaw files match recorded SHA-2562 of 2 files intact
PassRe-parsing raw files reproduces figures96 of 96 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's changes match
PassFigures are finite numbers96 figures, 0 invalid
PassLive source matches every figure96 of 96 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's changes match
PassORR table is currentthe latest fares change, 2026's, took effect by March 2026, 223 days before retrieval (limit 550)
PassTable 7182 moves as table 7180 does46 of 46 cases of the years' moves in table 7182's all-ticket index and RPI (https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/1691/table-7182-average-change-in-fares-by-ticket-type.ods?cb=faea1d60-850e-451e-8a30-ba99156bb97f) equal table 7180's, and their published changes within 1e-09 (45 exactly), 1 of them by the publisher's known difference: All tickets 2022 (-0.00016767)
PassThe latest change is the index's own3 of 3 cases of table 7180's changes for 2026 on 2025 equal its indices' change within 1e-06 (3 exactly)
PassSource page answershttps://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/finance/rail-fares/table-7180-average-change-in-fares-by-regulated-and-unregulated-tickets/ – HTTP 200

Notes

  • The index follows the average price of rail tickets in Great Britain, weighted by what passengers spend on each kind of ticket, at each year's fare change: 1995 = 100. Regulated fares are those whose rises governments cap, such as season tickets and off-peak returns.
  • Since 2021 the ORR compares fares with the Retail Prices Index for March, when the fare change in England and Wales takes effect; before 2021, with January's.
  • The ORR publishes the change on the year before for the latest year only, so the hub shows the indices for every other year and works out no change of its own.