CAMPAIGNERS fighting for the return of free rail travel for the elderly have suggested a £10 rail card be brought in for older people.
The so-called 'Freedom Riders' idea for operator Northern Rail to produce an annual £10 card comes almost a year after they began their fight for free travel to be restored.
Free train travel for the elderly and disabled was stopped on April 1 last year. There was a partial 'U turn' on June 8 when free train travel for the disabled at any time in South and West Yorkshire was reintroduced and older people were given half price train travel within South Yorkshire.
Barnsley Retirees Action Group member, Tony Nuttall, said the idea behind the annual £10 rail card is that once people have it, they would travel 'free'.
** The full story is in the Barnsley Chronicle newspaper, dated February 27. **
