Bradford pensioners and other concessionary card holders will have to pay 15p more for off-peak train travel.

Transport authority Metro’s executive committee agreed a new rate of 50p at a meeting today.

Metro said the 15p rise was the first since 2005.

A spokesman for Metro said: “It means that the county’s concessionary card holders, including people over 60 who now also have free off-peak local bus travel throughout England, can still travel the length and breadth of the county by train for just 50p.”

Card holders can take advantage of the 50p fare after 9.30am Monday to Friday and all day at weekends and on Bank Holidays.

The change is scheduled to come into force from May 23 this year.

The Metro spokesman said: “The off-peak concessionary fare rise is part of a range of cost-saving measures being introduced by Metro, which is facing the same difficult economic circumstances as everyone else.

“Other measures include value-for-money efficiency reviews including staffing reductions.”