Within the next few weeks, young people buying the popular 16-25 Railcard will be offered the digital one for the first time. But ticket inspectors on trains will still have to be shown the app as they would the current paper card. Ticket inspectors can – and often do – make passengers buy a new full-price ticket for accidentally leaving their card at home. A spokesman for the rail firms explains that railcard users can only switch to the digital card when they buy a new one. If you want nothing to do with the digital versions, all railcards will still be available in the paper form, he says.

Source: The Guardian July 29, 2017 06:00 UTC