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Unread 01-02-2007, 16:50   #1
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Quick question, does anyone know if you can use Irish Rail's Farecard in the UK to obtain Young Persons Railcard fares? Similarly can you use the Young Persons card in Ireland?
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Unread 01-02-2007, 16:57   #2
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Nope as far as I know
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Unread 01-02-2007, 17:07   #3
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In the UK (well, GB) you have to buy a YP Railcard. Student travel card (STC), ISIC, Farecard, proof of age etc - none of them apply, reason being that it's not purely an age-entitlement but a discount scheme (so you have to pay for the card, £20 at a mainline station, I have one and made the cost back in a couple of trips).

On IÉ the only things accepted are farecards and student travel cards. In the past they accepted ISIC with a travel stamp (and sometimes college cards) but not any more.

Contrast with Bus Éireann which still takes college cards (they have a list of accepted colleges), student travelcards etc etc. - but offers no discount to non-student adults. Therefore if you're a student you don't have to pay for your discount card but if you're a non-student you don't get anything!

Or Luas which accepts STC but not Farecard or any college cards for weeklies/monthlies.

It used to make more sense. ISIC was too easily forged, though.
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when I was young enough to have a british young persons railcard, I bought one on the spot in Portsmouth station. It was a few £ less to buy the railcard and pay the discounted fair than to pay the full adult one!
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Unread 21-01-2008, 12:45   #5
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Quick question, does anyone know if you can use Irish Rail's Farecard in the UK to obtain Young Persons Railcard fares? Similarly can you use the Young Persons card in Ireland?
Hi all,

In relation to this, how do I go about getting a farecard? Nothing on the Irish Rail website (as far as I can see) about it, and I haven't seen anything in stations about it. I'm located in Galway.

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Unread 21-01-2008, 22:11   #6
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http://www.iarnrodeireann.ie/your_ticket/leisure.asp

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http://www.railusers.ie/passenger_in...discount_cards

Any intercity booking office will issue once you have the €10 the passport photo and the proof of age

Its also listed in the full timetable (page 189) and I've have seen posters up at stations

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They are definitely not interchangeable, and neither are valid in Northern Ireland nor for journeys going there. Faircard costs €10 and you get it at any Intercity station with a proof of age and (smaller than) passport-size photo. YPR is £20 and requires a long form filled out. Both generally repay their cost on the first journey.
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