Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
20-08-2020, 17:24
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Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
I've recently changed jobs, and I'll be commuting between Bolton and, of all places, Thurnscoe. I installed the National Rail app on my phone, but it runs glacially slow - though I suspect that's more to do with the phone than the app, admittedly; I gave it a high-capacity SD card to think about, but it's no faster. I might, just might, get a better phone instead.
Or I might try to use my Fire tablet.
So is there an app which will a) run on a tablet, b) be reasonably easy to use, and c) be reasonably fast and reliable?
I do realise this is asking a lot of an app.
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20-08-2020, 18:09
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Re: Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
Use the app provided by the TOC you’ll be using, if at all possible. They’re commission free and usually have perks like loyalty points. TransPennine do Nectar, if that helps. Don’t know if any of them run on a tablet, and not sure that’s a good idea anyway - e-tickets have a QR code on them that can be read by ticket gates at stations. Not sure you want to be trying to wave a tablet at the reader.
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20-08-2020, 22:38
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Re: Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
TrainLine
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20-08-2020, 23:12
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Re: Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
TrainLine charges a booking fee which there’s no need to pay because none of the train company apps do, and they all provide access to exactly the same tickets and timetables.
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20-08-2020, 23:25
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Re: Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
I've recently changed jobs, and I'll be commuting between Bolton and, of all places, Thurnscoe. I installed the National Rail app on my phone, but it runs glacially slow - though I suspect that's more to do with the phone than the app, admittedly; I gave it a high-capacity SD card to think about, but it's no faster. I might, just might, get a better phone instead.
Or I might try to use my Fire tablet.
So is there an app which will a) run on a tablet, b) be reasonably easy to use, and c) be reasonably fast and reliable?
I do realise this is asking a lot of an app.
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That's a long commute.
Around 2 1/2 hours each way with 2 changes.........
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21-08-2020, 10:13
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Re: Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
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That's a long commute.
Around 2 1/2 hours each way with 2 changes.........
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Horrific to the point of near impossible as a commute, IMO. There are very few options for arriving at the destination for the beginning of the working day and making it affordable probably involves buying a stack of single tickets for each individual leg of the journey in both directions. Straight peak time singles are around £25 in each direction.
I don’t know what the season ticket options are on a route like that but if there is one, the question of a ticket app is moot.
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21-08-2020, 10:47
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Re: Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
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Horrific to the point of near impossible as a commute, IMO.
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Looks like that to me too. Even by car (if you had one) it's a daily 150 mile round trip
One hopes the new job is worth the hassle
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21-08-2020, 14:13
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Re: Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
So do I. But it's a job, and I've had to endure this sort of commute before. There's a possibility of carshare, though, they do operate such a scheme - so if it turns out there's someone from Manchester and they can pick me up/drop me off at a train station, that would be better. I'll have to look into it.
Thanks, guys.
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21-08-2020, 15:09
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Re: Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
I've applied for a job on London, it is a 30-minute train journey from my home to Liverpool Street, then a trip on the circle line to Westminster.
Then hopefully to a big building with a clock in it.
I've heard the train journey's season ticket is around £5,000 + a year.
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21-08-2020, 15:18
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Re: Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
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I've applied for a job on London, it is a 30-minute train journey from my home to Liverpool Street, then a trip on the circle line to Westminster.
Then hopefully to a big building with a clock in it.
I've heard the train journey's season ticket is around £5,000 + a year.
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Wouldn't you be better getting off at Embankment or Temple for Shell Mex House?
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21-08-2020, 16:40
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Re: Can anyone recommend a train ticket app?
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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
So do I. But it's a job, and I've had to endure this sort of commute before. There's a possibility of carshare, though, they do operate such a scheme - so if it turns out there's someone from Manchester and they can pick me up/drop me off at a train station, that would be better. I'll have to look into it.
Thanks, guys.
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Might it be cheaper/less exhausting to rent a room in a house Mon-Fri? (That’s what I did when I had a 6 month contract in Leicester - left home at 6am Monday morning, got to the office at just after 9am, left at 4pm Friday, home by 7pm; just like you, it was taxi, train, change train, taxi - couldn’t have done that every day...).
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