Tickets at a saving of up to 50 percent off the normal price are now available on TransPennine Express (TPE) through the “Secret Fare” option on the Seatfrog Train ticket app.

TransPennine Express and Seatfrog have extended their partnership and added more routes where the savings are available.

Reduced price tickets offering up to 50 percent saving on normal Advance Standard tickets must be booked up to 48 hours before travel and customers must be flexible about the time they travel.

When booking a Secret Fare, the price will be discounted from the normal TransPennine Express Advance Purchase fare, giving the customer a saving of between 25% and 50% on the ticket price across the range of tickets available.

When booking tickets, customers can specify whether they want to travel in the morning, afternoon, or evening, but the exact time of their journey will not be confirmed until 24 hours before their departure.

Secret Fares were already available from Manchester to Newcastle, Liverpool to York, and Newcastle to Leeds, and the new routes eligible for savings include:

• Manchester-Carlisle
• Manchester-Penrith
• Manchester-Oxenholme
• Manchester-Lancaster
• Manchester-Brough
• Manchester-Selby
• Liverpool/Liverpool South Parkway/Warrington Central/Birchwood/Manchester-Meadowhall
• Liverpool/Liverpool South Parkway/Warrington Central/Birchwood/Manchester-Scunthorpe/Barnetby/Grimsby/Cleethorpes
• Liverpool South Parkway/Warrington Central/Birchwood-Doncaster
• Leeds-Middlesbrough/Thornaby/Redcar Central/Saltburn
• Manchester-Thirsk/Northallerton/Thornaby/Redcar Central/Saltburn
• Liverpool/Manchester-Darlington/Durham/Chester-le-Street

As well as the stations listed, TransPennine Express operates over 300 services every weekday to more than 85 stations across the North of England and Scotland, including Edinburgh, Manchester, Liverpool and York.

Last month, East Midlands Railway also entered a partnership with Seatfrog.

Seatfrog was launched in 2018, and customers using the app have saved more than £80m in travel to over 3,400 destinations. As well as offering tickets at the best price, the app allows customers to upgrade to first class or change to a different train. The Seatfrog app can be downloaded here.

Secret Fare has been a great success since its inception, and we’re excited to extend it further. We’re redefining train travel by offering affordable, flexible options that benefit customers and the environment, and a big part of that is making it as easy as possible to use.

Iain Griffin, CEO and co-founder at Seatfrog

Working with Seatfrog allows us to offer customers even more flexible and affordable options, and we’re really pleased we can extend the routes Secret Fare is offered on. We want our customers to have greater choices, which means exploring innovative options like this.

Darren Higgins, Commercial Director for TPE