Train Tickets

[ummmm]

Does anyone know if you book train tickets to be collected from the station will they happily accept the email confirmation and reference or would we need the payment card?

We've booked tickets for my son for an early train and neither of us can be there to pick the tickets up...although his teacher will be there.

[Prudie]

ummmm we've done this quite a few times and it always asks for the payment card to be inserted even though we've pre-paid.

[Jackdaw33]

Can't remember the procedure now for remote third party booking. Chico will know.

[ummmm]

Thanks both... I can't give him the card so will have to figure something else out.

I tried to contact the rail company but they make it really hard as he has tickets booked for Tuesday/return and Wednesday/Thursday return.

The school is a pain in the bum...I had a weeks notice.

[Prudie]

You can go and get the tickets obviously in advance before you travel, can you do that instead?

[ummmm]

I've already paid for them on the debit card and opted to collect them at the train station with the email going to his account on his iphone with booking reference etc. I booked the tickets in his name but obviously the name of the card is in a different name.

[ummmm]

The only issue being is I've agreed to do his paper round on the two days he'll be away and there is noway I can do that and get down the train station in time.

[Prudie]

What I meant is you could go tonight or tomorrow for example and collect the tickets. Don't know if that's an option.

[tiggerblue10]

Don't know if it's he same but I regularly book travelcards through our work booking system when I'm seconded here and there. I usually pick them up from the machine at the train station the day before and it always requires a card even though its been paid for by work. So basically what Prudie says. Do you think his teacher will assist with card. It won't charge them anything.

What day is he travelling?

[ummmm]

It would make life so much easier if he could pick them up at the station (he's 18 so I'm not letting a youngster find his own way) I just didn't think about the booking card at the time.

[ummmm]

Hi Tiggs...so it doesn't need to be the card it was booked with?

[TheWinner]

We tried to book a ticket ("the parents") - and pay with "our" card for one of our children who was at the opposite end of the country. who needed to travel home. Unfortunately, the person ("child") who was travelling home, HAD to produce "the card that was making the payment", at the train station in order to collect the ticket. That wasn't possible. So it didn't happen.

[tiggerblue10]

Hi Ummmm, don't know if it's the same system where you are but if you click on "collect ticket" on the machine at the station it will ask for a debit/credit card which you put into the slot and take out when prompted. Then it will ask you to enter the reference number and click enter. Tickets should print out in the tray.

[ummmm]

SOB...I'll have fob off the housework and take a journey to the train station.

Thanks all...I just needed to get in my head what I needed to do.

It's his fault....he bothered me and bothered me about these blinking train tickets until I booked them to shut him up. Men!!!

[tiggerblue10]

Sorry, forgot to say, I think it asks for a card just to check that its a genuine booking. I do this all they time when I book through work and it's pre-paid.

[ummmm]

Cheers, Tiggs, that would mean I have to go with him anyway as I'm not leaving him with our bank card.

[Jackdaw33]

I vaguely remember that. You could use any card and as long as the PIN and ticket reference number were recognised you got the ticket.

[tiggerblue10]

I don't need to enter my PIN when collecting.

[ummmm]

He doesn't have his own card. I'll go down there tomorrow and pick them up.