The hardcore traveller's secret of splitting up long rail journeys to get cheaper tickets has gone mainstream, thanks to popular ticketing service Trainline integrating its SplitSave system within its booking app. Read More >>

People using Apple Pay at the ticket barriers of the London Underground will no longer be hated for all eternity by those behind them in the queue, as an update to Apple Pay and the official endorsement of Transport for London has unlocked the system's Express Mode for all commuters. Read More >>

As of today, StubHub has a new parent company. EBay has sold the ticket reseller to Viagogo for $4.05 billion (£3.14 billion) in cash, a neat little profit when you consider eBay initially bought the company for $310 million (£240 million) back in 2007. Read More >>

Virgin wants to help people pay less for train tickets, but it also doesn't want to make it too easy to do so. So it's going to launch a specific app for purchasing split-tickets, making it at least slightly easier to break down long journeys into shorter, hopefully cheaper, linked-up regional hauls. Read More >>

The nation could face a small new tax on the cost of flying overseas soon, with a review of the conditions of flight saying that a fee of around 50p per plane ticket should go into an emergency pool of money to get stranded passengers home should their airline go bust. Read More >>

The government has opened a new public consultation on What To Do About Train Tickets?, with one of the key proposed ideas being a national launch of a tap in/out PAYG travel system, as used to such success in the barriers and stations of London's transport network. Read More >>

One of the benefits of taking children anywhere is about to be taken away by the Scrooges at Scotrail, which is about to end the free travel tickets for children deal it's been running for years. Read More >>

Virgin Trains is trying a little something to make getting to your internet girlfriend on a Friday evening slightly easier – it is removing Friday afternoon from the peak ticket restriction period for all trains leaving London Euston, so more departures are accessible for people with cheaper off-peak tickets. Read More >>

The modern pop culture hate crime of scalping people for gig tickets is about to get a little harder to pull off, with market leader Ticketmaster saying it's giving up on trying to make money on selling things twice by closing its resale portals. Read More >>

A group of men sipping tea from chipped Intercity mugs are bored of being told that buying a train ticket is too complicated a task, so have decided it's time to simplify the process. Which is lovely, although one idea they're putting forward won't go down well -- binning advance tickets. Read More >>

'Tis the season for the rail companies to ruin the Christmases of millions of people, by revealing next year's ticket prices. And you'll never guess what's happened; they've only gone and handed themselves a massive pay rise for the privilege of being shuttled to work in a metal tube of armpits. Read More >>

Passengers using the train to get somewhere but not being bothered to book in advance are about to strike it slightly richer, with seven train companies reducing the cutoff point for buying Advance tickets to just 10 minutes before travel. Read More >>

Today's calamitous IT failure has been revealed: the trains. Specifically, people trying to buy train tickets this morning noticed that automated machines at stations to travel on many rail franchises were broken, with server issues meaning the systems couldn't process payments, therefore making the buying of tickets impossible. Read More >>

Amazon's Prime members have a new offer open to them today -- concert tickets. Physical concert tickets, sold through Amazon Tickets and non-refundable and non-transferable as is the modern way, for the amazing price of as much as £150. Read More >>

People trying to think up new ways that more travellers can be rammed onto our trains in less time have come up with an idea -- iris scanning. That way we can shuffle slowly forwards like automatons while being scanned by lasers, without breaking formation to get angry with a ticket machine. That'll be nice. Read More >>