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Irish rail website and 3v

  • 27-04-2009 7:57pm
    #1
    Corkfeen
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    I have no credit card I can use but have a 3v card. Can you book a train ticket with a 3v card? How do you collect if you can? Thanks very much


Comments

  • #2
    Typewriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Typewriter


    You can use your laser card.


  • #3
    Corkfeen
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    green_jesus wrote: »
    You can use your laser card.

    Don't have a laser card either.


  • #4
    Typewriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Typewriter


    Corkfeen wrote: »
    Don't have a laser card either.

    How'd you manage that one?


    Not sure about the 3v but im sure it'll work. If you buy your tickets well in advance then they will be posted to you. If not then just collect your tickets at the booking office of the train station and have your printed out receipt with you.


  • #5
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    green_jesus wrote: »
    How'd you manage that one?


    Not sure about the 3v but im sure it'll work. If you buy your tickets well in advance then they will be posted to you. If not then just collect your tickets at the booking office of the train station and have your printed out receipt with you.
    Ya i'm 17 so no laser card :D . Think i'll do tha, thanks very much mate.


  • #6
    GerardKeating
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    Corkfeen wrote: »
    Ya i'm 17 so no laser card :D . Think i'll do tha, thanks very much mate.

    Should not stop one getting a laser, most of them do laser for 16+


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  • #7
    Random
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    The ticket machines need the card you booked with when you're at the station for printing / collecting your ticket.

    I guess your other option is to print your ticket at home, but I don't think IE allow that yet do they?


  • #8
    L1011
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    Corkfeen wrote: »
    Ya i'm 17 so no laser card :D . Think i'll do tha, thanks very much mate.

    Age for a Laser card is 16... and apparently (Finance forum) AIB are now issuing them to absolutely anyone who qualified to get an ATM card in the first place.

    3V cards are generally useless for 'buy online, pickup at venue' style setups; Eurotunnel have a massive warning telling you not to use the UK equivalents as you will not get on to Le Shuttle, end of story (there is no manual pickup), you can't do cinema tickets with them, etc, etc.

    As said above, if you buy enough in advance the tickets get posted to you, they come on a weird printed floppy plastic insert that you pop the ticket out of and look very strange all around actually!


  • #9
    Victor
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    They are likely to look for the card name / number and booking number.


  • #10
    dotsman
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    MYOB wrote: »
    Age for a Laser card is 16... and apparently (Finance forum) AIB are now issuing them to absolutely anyone who qualified to get an ATM card in the first place.

    That's true. There is no reason why one would have to be 18 to get a debit card as there is no debt associated with it. AIB replaced all their Banklink and Laser Cards with Maestro Cards a few years back. I think for under 16's, parental permission is required.


  • #11
    cast_iron
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    Random wrote: »
    The ticket machines need the card you booked with when you're at the station for printing / collecting your ticket.
    The bank card is not necessary. I got my ticket from the machine at Heuston a couple of weeks ago with nothing but the booking number (or whatever it's called). There was an option for the card, I think, but I did not use it in any case.


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