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Veterans' rail discount set to become a legal right as government amends Railways Bill
The Department for Transport announced a government amendment to the Railways Bill placing the one third rail fare discount for veterans and service personnel into statute for the first time. The department linked the change to the planned creation of Great British Railways, and noted free rail travel was recently extended to bereaved military family members attending Remembrance events.
Our readWriting the discount into law rather than policy guidance means a future government cannot quietly drop it without changing the statute, something a minister could have done with a stroke of the pen under the old guidance.
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