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Normal Student Cards on Trains

  • 05-04-2012 7:52am
    #1
    dory
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hey,

    I know back in the day the train would only accept the travel card, not normal student ID. But I'm sure on the billboards I've seen that you can avail of the current offer with college ID or the travel saver card.

    Then I went to buy the tickets online and it said: Passengers must have either a valid Iarnród Éireann Student Travelcard or a valid Translink Student Discount Card to avail of student tickets.

    Has anyone successful travelled on a normal student ID lately?


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  • #2
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    Travelled last Sunday with no hassle!
    The offer was supposed to end this week but was extended! Maybe they forgot to change their software.


  • #3
    dory
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,574 Mod ✭✭✭✭dory


    It says o the website that they extended it.
    Just got confirmation from them on Twitter than you can use a normal student card. Sweet!


  • #4
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    dory wrote: »
    It says o the website that they extended it.
    Just got confirmation from them on Twitter than you can use a normal student card. Sweet!
    Also be aware that it is ONLY with those specially advertised student offers that you can travel without the student travelcard, any other student ticket will require you to have a student travelcard when travelling.


  • #5
    fats83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭fats83


    In the student pop up it says a "valid college ID" wohoo


  • #6
    nataliemurphy3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭nataliemurphy3


    Just wondering, I'm probably on the wrong one for this but I have a friend coming over from America, well she was doing a semester over in Athens and she's coming over here for a few weeks before she goes home, would her student ID work on the trains even when the student offer is finished or would she too need to get the travel card for students???


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  • #7
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    nataliemurphy3 wrote: »
    Just wondering, I'm probably on the wrong one for this but I have a friend coming over from America, well she was doing a semester over in Athens and she's coming over here for a few weeks before she goes home, would her student ID work on the trains even when the student offer is finished or would she too need to get the travel card for students???
    She will need to get the student travelcard to avail of student fares after the offer has finished.


  • #8
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    She will need to get the student travelcard to avail of student fares after the offer has finished.

    Only fulltime students of an Irish 2nd/3rd level institution are eligible for the student travelcard.

    I know Bus Eireann sell weekly city tickets to International students studying here as "Foreign student ticket"...without a travelcard. It's possible that train tickets could be purchased as "foreign student" too- though who knows.


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