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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harriette Boucher

Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial

East Midlands Railway will be the first to trial a pay-as-you-go ticketing system from September 1 - ((Alamy/PA))

A pay-as-you-go train ticketing system which will track passengers' journeys via GPS and charge them at the end of the day is to be trialled across England.

Instead of buying tickets at the station or on their phone, passengers will scan a bar code on an app when passing through ticket gates. Their journeys will be tracked using the location on their phone through GPS (global positioning system).

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