Railcard

Thank you Scotrail! It was difficult to find information from bus companies about travel from Wick to Thurso (it has all been relegated to online, which often literally means spinning your wheels). We got straightforward info from Scotrail, and found trains at useful times and a printed timetable! Congratulations to the staff!

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.

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.