RAIL passengers commuting from Glasgow to Edinburgh will pay an extra £116 to travel to work from today.

The price of a season ticket will rise to £4,200 after fares across the UK were hiked by an average of 2.7%.

Elsewhere in Scotland an off-peak return ticket from Dundee to Edinburgh has increased by 50p to £29.40.

It comes as the latest survey by watchdog Transport Focus found fewer than half (47%) of passengers are satisfied with the value for money of train tickets.

Network Rail data shows only 65% of trains arrived at their scheduled station stops within one minute of the timetable in the 12 months to December 7.

Last month Abellio stripped of the contract to run Scotrail services by the Scottish government amid criticism of performance levels.

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Bruce Williamson, of pressure group Railfuture, claimed fares are “outstripping people’s incomes”.

He said: “Welcome to another decade of misery for rail passengers.

“How on earth is the Government going to meet its climate commitments by pricing people off environmentally-friendly trains and on to our polluted and congested roads?”

Transport Focus director David Sidebottom said: “After a year of pretty poor performance in some areas, passengers just want a consistent day-to-day service they can rely on and a better chance of getting a seat.”

He urged passengers to “offset the cost of the fare rises” by claiming compensation for every eligible delay.

The increase in around 45% of fares, including season tickets, is regulated by the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments.

The rises are predominantly capped at July’s RPI inflation figure, which was 2.8%.

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The Campaign for Better Transport described RPI as a “discredited and obsolete statistic which should no longer be used”.

It urged governments to base regulated fare rises on the more commonly used CPI measure of inflation, which was 2.1% in July.

Other fare rises are decided by train companies.

Robert Nisbet, director of nations and regions for industry body the Rail Delivery Group, said: “We know that no-one wants to pay more to travel, and rail companies have, for the third year in a row, held average fare increases below inflation while continuing to deliver investment in new trains and extra services that will improve journeys for customers.

“In 2020, we will work together to run 1,000 extra services a week and roll out 1,000 more train carriages as we replace half the country’s train carriages.