To think that rail passes should be available on an app?

[GinAndToast]

Bloody annoying but I got to the train station earlier to discover I had left my rail pass on the kitchen table.

The whole application is electronic. You have to give name, address, date of birth, payment card etc so Aibu to think the ONLY reason you get sent one to carry is so the train companies can charge you extra whenever you forget it?

It could easily be an app on a smart phone, so you could show that. And it is also easily checkable at a train station if you did forget it and have to go and explain.

£27 later (nearly enough for a whole new pass) and I am deeply angry with myself.

Surely I am not the only person to occasionally forget this sort of stuff in the rush to leave the house? If it were something else I had forgotten (bank card, reward card) then there are other ways to pay/display that information. I could show an app, use Apple Pay or PayPal...

Agreed YANBU

Yanbu. It's so frustrating

That's a brilliant idea.

Put the train pass in your phone case

There is an M-Card app available on Android if thats any good for you?

ScotRail do a kinda thing but I think they just prefer getting money from us numpties who leave passes in jacket pocket and change jacket or in other bag (all things I have done grrr)

DD2 has a 16-25 railcard as an app. You would think that if they offer an e-railcard for one version then they would offer them across the range.

Problem is when you're mega delayed on a packed train and your phone dies.

Aha. (And Jay, I agree)

www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/travel/2017/07/railcards-finally-get-an-app-

Glad you all agree!!!

The trouble is, you only get ONE card as a family and so even if two adults are named on it, you have to swap it between you. That's why it's not just in my purse/phone case all the time 😬

I am going to have a moan about paying twice. It won't make a scrap of difference to me, but I am thinking the more moaners the better in terms of changing for the future.

Article here about digital railcards and claiming back rail fare on your "first offence" of forgetting your railcard.

Likely reason they don't do this would be that it is much easier to defraud by:
A) using screenshot of a friend's railcard, or
B) photoshopping yourself a railcard

Oh! You get one for both of you?? That's a bit rubbish, isn't it.

Eh? SadTrombone, you can buy normal train tickets on an app which aren't easy to forge, they could do the same with passes easily.

TheWollybacksWife Thank you so much!

I am going to try and claim it back.

SadTrum It would be easier to forge the actual card I think rather than an electrical copy!

Other companies use similar?

What would happen if you forgot your phone?