Railcard 4+

I thought people were exaggerating when they said it would give great discounts. It wasn’t until I went to purchase a train ticket to Birmingham did I experience the amazing discount. My ticket originally would of been around 40-50£s but I paid 12 £s for my ticket just wow.

We have, after workarounds, successfully purchased a Two Together Railcard, but it should not have been so hard. The app is a front end to a web site, and one of the first things one must enter is a UK address and phone number. It will not accept my US data.
So the workaround: provide a valid UK address and phone (we used our first hotel destination). The billing page allows for a different address and if you scroll down far enough, you see “country.” Hope dawns! Here I was able to provide my US address and the rest went okay. As part of confirmation, they do repeat validation instructions. It’s a neat result (we find out for sure in a few weeks), but a confusing script.

For the purpose of showing the Railcard, there isn’t much for the App to actually do, and it serves the function of being a digital card. The renewal process however, was cumbersome. When your card is about to expire, it shows a notification of “expiring soon - renew now” which redirects you to the website via browser. But the browser doesn’t prompt you to login from that redirect until you finished all the steps before payment - then it asks you to log-in and then you repeat all of the previous steps.