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Trainsplit advising paper tickets only?

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I just checked on Trainsplit for my journey later this morning from Carlisle to Dumfries on a Day Return, forgetting that Scotrail don’t have Peak prices these days - I wanted to see if I can get an earlier train than my originally planned 09:55 ex-CAR.

All good as it’s the same price any time nowadays, however I noticed in the small print: “Sorry, we're only permitted to sell paper tickets for the journey you've selected.”

This is strange, as I currently have in my Apple Wallet e-tickets for today’s travels, bought a couple of days ago.

Is this a blip on the website, or am I going to have a problem with my e-tickets?
 
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Perhaps because I’m still using an older version? iPhone Safari.

No worries, thanks for confirming.
 

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Wallsendmag said:
ScotRail are rolling out eTickets this week
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Do you have a source for this? There doesn't appear to be anything about it on the ScotRail website or app yet.

I presume this means ScotRail will be ditching mTickets (which their website still refers to at the moment). I guess this will leave Transport for Wales as the only operator to stick with mTickets rather than eTickets.
 
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AY1975 said:
Do you have a source for this? There doesn't appear to be anything about it on the ScotRail website or app yet.

I presume this means ScotRail will be ditching mTickets (which their website still refers to at the moment). I guess this will leave Transport for Wales as the only operator to stick with mTickets rather than eTickets.
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I thought a lot of TfW was already enabled, and thought they didn't have the same ridiculous aversion to eTickets. I have also seen this morning some stats that TfW have in recent weeks newly enabled a large number of SOS and SOR fares, so things are definitely going further in the right direction.

I'll believe ScotRail doing it when I see it... I've heard "soon" before when it comes to them.
 
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AY1975 said:
Do you have a source for this? There doesn't appear to be anything about it on the ScotRail website or app yet.

I presume this means ScotRail will be ditching mTickets (which their website still refers to at the moment). I guess this will leave Transport for Wales as the only operator to stick with mTickets rather than eTickets.
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Not that I can share on a public forum but check for eTickets from tomorrow
 
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What time today roughly? I just checked on the ScotRail app and it's selling me mTickets only still.
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The data feed comes through about half midnight usually. Accredited apps have a bit of time to start using it

However, this will have added eTicket I suspect, not removed mTicket too, so the ScotRail etc apps who are configured by the retailer to only do mTicket won't change. RCS tells you what is allowed, you don't have to offer all the options
 
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styles said:
What time today roughly? I just checked on the ScotRail app and it's selling me mTickets only still.
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Not sure that the ScotRail app is set up to sell eTickets but as above the LNER site is.

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OscarH said:
The data feed comes through about half midnight usually. Accredited apps have a bit of time to start using it

However, this will have added eTicket I suspect, not removed mTicket too, so the ScotRail etc apps who are configured by the retailer to only do mTicket won't change. RCS tells you what is allowed, you don't have to offer all the options
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Indeed and very few sites offer mTickets
 
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I haven't looked at the data but just played aound with a few booking engines. From 27th April ScotRail Advance tickets seem to be enabled, but Anytime tickets are not always.
 
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styles said:
What time today roughly? I just checked on the ScotRail app and it's selling me mTickets only still.
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AIUI ScotRail is now offering Advance tickets as eTickets but ScR ordinary singles and returns are still only available as paper tickets or mTickets at least if bought via the ScotRail website or app.
 
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Trainline are able to sell them as e-tickets, right? So any other retailer can do so too, I would argue.
 
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yorkie said:
Trainline are able to sell them as e-tickets, right? So any other retailer can do so too, I would argue.
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Other retailers won't be able to if the RCS data doesn't allow it.
 
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