‘Golden’ train tickets: Here’s how you can get free rail travel across Britain for a whole year

Free train tickets for a year. Yes, you read that right. Train operators are giving away 12 “golden tickets” to inspire workers to take a day off to visit people and places they have missed during the Covid pandemic.

The lucky winners will be entitled to free rail travel anywhere across Britain for 12 months.

To enter the competition, passengers need to visit https://backontrack.nationalrail.co.uk/#/competition between Monday and midnight on October 7 and say why they deserve to win the prize.

Train operators are giving away 12 “golden tickets”.

A survey of 2,781 adults across the UK commissioned by the rail industry indicated that 28% of people have not taken any annual leave at all this year.

Nearly one in four (24%) of those respondents said they are waiting for coronavirus restrictions to be lifted before they book time off.

The poll also suggested that 47% of working adults have worked longer than their normal hours during the pandemic.

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