Printable tickets for thetrainline

Trainline customers can now print their own train tickets for rail journeys.

Print Your Own, the e-ticketing system being used, was trialled some four years ago but roll out was delayed while ticket designs were being agreed.

"Very early on in the project it became clear that the plethora of ticket designs for all the different rail operators would not only confuse consumers but hold back the rollout too,” said thetrainline.com Product Development Director Richard Rowson.

“So the first milestone was getting industry standards agreed both for the visual ticket layout and for how to securely encode the ticket data within a two-dimensional barcode."

18 July 2010