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Complicated journey, can anyone please help with best ticket price

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suzanneparis said:
Then after paying for the M-ticket does the following happen??
Britrail send an email (to me) with a link to click and start the pass working for each of the two travellers even though one of them is 15 and free.
Is it correct that the pass lasts for a month?
IF it does last for a month then presumably I can buy the pass tomorrow and register it tomorrow to start the month tomorrow for them. (they are only here for a week from 1-8 July). Does registering involve clicking on a website?? Or more complicated.
After doing that does Britrail then send a 'ticket' for each of the two travellers to my email address?
I can then do two things:
1. print out the two tickets (they want me to do that because they don't have a printer).
2. send them the two electronic m-tickets by email.
so they will end up with an electronic and printed version of their ticket

Is that correct and is the final ticket just a PDF document or do they need a special app on their phones to display it?

Finally, using the pass. Presumably their must be some system for the ticket collector/gateline staff to validate the ticket for travel that day so that they don't exceed their 4 days? Then for further interactions later that day they show either the printed or on mobile screen pdf of the ticket - either to ticket collectors or machines at the gateline?

Many thanks for any help with the above. Never done a britrail pass before.
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Yes, that seems to be how it works. You can view the process here: https://www.visitbritainshop.com/si...3-02/BritRail M-Pass activation _ VB Shop.mp4

I admit I had to check this myself, since I normally use old-style paper tickets and "M-Pass" suggests an app, but in this case it's actually just a PDF e-ticket, which can be printed according to the guidance
 
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I was under the impression that buying a Brit rail pass in the UK was, at least, very difficult if not impossible.
 
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Haywain said:
I was under the impression that buying a Brit rail pass in the UK was, at least, very difficult if not impossible.
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Having just had a quick look, only International Rail will allow one to be bought from the UK, but they only do paper passes. They also charge £14 for (Special Delivery) postage.

ACP Rail, Traintickets and Raileurope all apply geoblocking.
 
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is it an email that you get from Britrail that has the mechanism to register the passes? if so does that registration process work anywhere in the world or must it be done before travelling to the uk. again is the act of registering the pass 'geoblocked'

many thanks
 
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MANY many thanks to everyone for their help.

In the end my visitors bought their Britrail tickets and everything more or less worked fine. They had one hiccup with an automatic gate but the rest worked fine and their tickets scanned properly onboard trains with ticket inspectors.

That saved them a lot of money. So again thanks.

They enjoyed visiting the UK and the cheaper train tickets were very much appreciated.

And again, thanks everyone for all of your help. Genuinely appreciated.
 
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