National Rail

National Rail Enquiries

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About this app

Stay alert with National Rail for up-to-the-minute train times, fares, and journey information.

Ratings and reviews

Really awful. I've seen screenshots that indicate that I should see my personal info at the top of the screen, but instead I get lots of ads and am not able to find my personal info anywhere. Often a popup ad blocks the menu bar at the bottom of the screen and it's difficult to remove the ad. Trips that I have booked do not appear in this worthless app. However my senior rail discount is applied when I book trips, so that's good.

This used to be a native Android app. Now it's just a web page in disguise. It's gone from clunky to almost unusable. It doesn't handle patchy internet connections well (too many adds, too many station name web lookups rather than using internal lists), and the on-screen keyboard keeps blocking the button I want to press. It won't plan journeys starting in the next 15 minutes. If I want a website, I'll use my laptop. The app needs to be responsive and usable when I'm actually on a train.

The latest iteration of the app is a serious backwards step, it's like the developers forgot to do any form of analysis of any process that a user might do. Let's make it a nightmare to select your common stations as the app keeps jumping up and down, not making it easy to select a station that you've already used. Then, we'll remove the easy option to have saved route that you may use on a daily route, forcing us to select both stations daily, oh the joys.

What's new

Small but mighty update - faster load times, clearer information, and a few bugs ironed out.