EMERGENCY service workers can enjoy free travel this Christmas, thanks to Transport for Wales (TfW).

TfW, which took over Wales' rail franchise from Arriva Trains Wales earlier this year, is offering free travel for all members of the police, fire and rescue, ambulance, RNLI and coastguard services.

The offer is in recognition of their 'incredible efforts' throughout the year, and covers all rail services in Wales until January 4.

To access the offer, workers must be on duty or be travelling to or from work, and have their ID an uniform on them.

Customer experience director for TfW, Colin Lea, said: "We all know what a difficult job our emergency service personnel do in keeping us safe.

"Nationally, the police are already able to travel on trains for free whilst on duty, and we felt that we'd like to extend this to all branches of the emergency services.

"So for Christmas and New Year we're delighted to offer them all free travel on our services to make it that bit easier to get about in recognition of their fantastic work.

"We'll carefully consider how this works with a view to what else may be possible in future."

Currently, on duty police officers from all forces including the British Transport Police, are already able to travel free of charge whilst in uniform.