Train operator Northern are advising parents that they can save hundreds of pounds if their children travel to school by train by purchasing an “Education Season Ticket”.

The Education Season Ticket is valid across all of Northern’s network.

Northern has teamed-up with 124 secondary schools and university technical colleges across its network to make the special season ticket available. It allows students to purchase tickets with a reduction of up to 75% off the normal adult fare. On some routes, the savings are worth as much as £575 per year.

Education Season Tickets provide unlimited travel between two stations and are valid seven days a week. As such, they can be used at weekends and during the holidays – not just the 195 days per year that schools are open.

For a full list of participating schools and to purchase an Education Season Ticket for the new academic year, parents should visit the Northern’s special web page at www.northernrailway.co.uk/tickets/educational-season

Sample savings across the network are shown in the table below:

Mark Powles, customer and commercial director at Northern, said:

“Parents can save hundreds of pounds per year by investing in an Education Season Ticket at the start of the academic year.

“They’ll also be able to rest assured their child will always have the means to get to and from school – and they won’t have to scramble around for the train fare each morning.”

Northern is in the process of creating the country’s largest network of digital ticket infrastructure of any train operator in the country. This will make it easier for how customers purchase their tickets in the future, as they will have the choice between Northern’s mobile phone app, their website, or from one of more than 600 ticket machines across the network.

Northern is the second largest train operator in the country. It operates nearly 2,000 services a day to over 500 stations throughout the North of England.