Northern Rail has announced that train tickets will be available for passengers in County Durham, North Yorkshire, and Teesside for as little as £3 up until November. 

The rail company revealed its cheap ticket sale on Wednesday (August 14) which will give people cheap tickets for customers to book twelve weeks in advance of travel.

Bishop Auckland, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle, Saltburn, Northallerton and York are just several locations where people can travel using Northern's cheap train tickets.

The new rule takes effect next Friday (23 August) when tickets as far ahead as Friday, November 15 will be available to buy at the cheapest rate.

Here are some of the locations where customers can travel by train for as low as £3:

  • Darlington
  • Durham
  • Hartlepool
  • Chester-Le-Street
  • Eaglescliffe
  • Seaham
  • Bishop Auckland
  • Billingham
  • Stockton
  • Newton Aycliffe
  • Shildon
  • Northallerton
  • York
  • Newcastle

Advance Purchase tickets offer customers up to 65 per cent off the standard fare and are available on selected routes across the Northern network.  

The last time tickets were available 12 weeks ahead of travel was before the COVID-19 pandemic when strict travel restrictions came into effect.

Since then, they have only been available as far as six weeks in advance.

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Mark Powles, commercial and customer director at Northern, said: “We’ve listened to our customers and are reinstating the 12-week booking period.

“Advance Purchase tickets offer great low fares to places all across our network and we hope this decision will encourage people to use the train to get out and explore the region.” 

Northern's decision to reinstate the 12-week booking window for Advance Purchase fares is part of an industry move to provide more certainty to customers and enable them to plan further in advance.

More information about Advance Purchase tickets can be found here.