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Since holidaymakers and day trippers travel outside these times so they may face higher fares than those covered by the 2.7% rise.

From January rail fares will go up by 3.4% except we all know that isn’t the real story. Some will rise by more and some by less.

As ever as a new year starts the first story with angst is always the rise in rail prices. This year it is less than the rate of inflation for the first time in 10 years.

With regularity bordering on tedium, rail fares rose yesterday. Commuters will still moan, politicians will do nothing and life will go on until the next fares increase in January 2014.

Yet again the time approaches when rail fares rise again. We moan, we complain, the media highlight how much annual season ticket costs but rarely do we consider the effects on tourism.