Chiltern Railways app now available on Android phones

Chiltern Railways pioneering integrated mobile ticketing application is now available on Android phones, which enables passengers to buy, receive and display tickets through the app on their mobile phone. 

 

This simple easy ticketing application was initially launched for iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson amongst others and has now been downloaded by over 30,000 customers. Chiltern Railways along with technology partners Masabi and Atos Origin are already looking at ways to develop this pioneering technology to meet the growing needs of passengers by plan to add new features such as real time service updates in the future. 

 

This free mobile application provides passengers with details of the cheapest prices and train times, and then delivers the ticket as a 2D barcode within the application. The company has also invested in special scanners on gates at stations to enable passengers to “touch in” and “touch out” of stations and also on equipment for ticket inspectors to read the mTicket.  

 

Thomas Ableman, Marketing Director of Chiltern Railways said:  “We’ve been delighted with the feedback we’ve had from our passengers and are happy to now extend the ability to buy and display tickets to the rapidly growing number of Android users.  Rigorous usability testing means that we are confident our app is simple and easy to use for all passengers. We are proud to have developed this industry first that makes ticketing faster at a time when we’re also doing the same to our trains through the work we are doing to create the Chiltern Mainline thereby reducing journey times.”

 

The Chiltern Railways application does not charge a booking fee, and the application is free to download.  To get the application passengers just need to text “Chiltern” to 88600 or search the relevant app stores.