The government has announced the most important train collapse within the UK since its inauguration within the mid-1990s.
It is said the new agency , the good British Railway (GBR), will set timetables and costs , sell tickets in England and manage rail infrastructure.
Transportation Secretary Grant Ships acknowledged that the present system is “very complex” and “fragmented”.
Flexible season tickets
Under the reforms:
1-All tickets are going to be sold by GBR within the future, ending the system where passengers must buy them from
multiple companies online and in stations
2-There are going to be a "significant rollout" of more pay as you go, contactless and digital ticketing on smartphones
3-And from next month flexible season tickets are going to be available for a few people that commute two or three
times every week .
The flexible season tickets will offer savings on certain routes for people that don't visit work a day , reflecting the expected changes to commuting patterns after the pandemic.
They are thanks to continue sale on 21 June to be used seven days later, and can allow passengers to travel on any eight days during a 28-day period.
Darshita Rajani, who lives in Wellingborough but works in London, welcomes the thought of a versatile commutation ticket .
Currently a commutation ticket for her journey costs slightly below £8,000. But she is going to only be doing three days every week when she goes back to the office in order that would be prohibitively expensive.
"If things don't change i will be able to still need to buy a commutation ticket , which may be a waste of cash , but each day ticket costs £116," she tells the BBC.
"It's insane what proportion they charge for a 50-minute train journey. I hope there'll be two-days-a-week, three-days-a-week flexi tickets."
Anthony Smith, chief executive of passenger watchdog Transport Focus, said passengers would welcome a move "towards a more accountable and joined-up railway".
"Ultimately what they're going to care about is whether or not rail is that the best choice for them, if it's reliable, efficient and good value," he said.
But Manuel Cortes, general secretary of union the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association, dismissed the plan as "papering over the cracks".
"A concessions-based model will still see passengers' and taxpayer money leak of our industry within the sort of dividend payments for the greedy shareholders of the private operators who will hold them," he said.
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