TRAIN operator c2c is offering free travel to service personnel and veterans travelling to and from services of remembrance this coming weekend.

The free travel on Saturday, 11 and Sunday, 12 November is available to service personnel travelling in uniform or with valid ID, and to veterans who are wearing their medals.

c2c Managing Director Rob Mullen said: "Remembrance Sunday is an important day of reflection across the country and offering free travel to service personnel and veterans is our way of paying our respects to them and to the local railway staff who gave their lives in the two world wars of the last century."

Customers are also encouraged to look out for the company's special train (unit 357 018), which commemorates the 88 local railwaymen of the then-London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, who died in the First World War.