Railboard is brilliant and does everything. You can plan journeys between any stations and specify ‘via’ or ‘avoid’ stations. See all ticket options and buy them with no commission or ‘split tickets’... See more
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Railboard is a very nice system to use. It keeps your railcard stored, so you don’t need to re‑enter anything, and the layout is clearer than some other apps, though broadly similar. I tend to us... See more
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The application is easy to use and Railboard saved money by finding us split tickets from London to Manchester. When we got on the train, our reservations weren’t for the whole leg and weren’t next t... See more
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I've used several train apps - Railboard is the best: - best - it's the easiest to navigate and use - favourite stations/journeys - live tracking and planned trips - adds journeys to calenda... See more
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About Railboard
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With the Railboard iPhone or iPad app, you can save lots of money by finding super-cheap split train tickets. Plus, you have easy access to live train times powered by National Rail Enquiries.
With Split Tickets, our clever algorithms find combinations of tickets that together offer the same journey but at a lower price than a regular ticket.
This is done by splitting regular train tickets at calling points along the journey. So instead of one ticket from A to C, you have two tickets from A to B and B to C. However, you stay on the same train as normal. There is no requirement to alight and re-board. And we do all the hard work to find them for you!
But that’s not all; Railboard has tons of other features:- No booking fees.
- Instant etickets, which you can add to Apple Wallet.
- Buy with Apple Pay.
- Supports Dark Mode.
- Set your railcard to get railcard discounts.
- Easily request refunds using an online form inside the app.
- Receipts available inside the app.
- An easy button to add journeys to your calendar.
- You can optionally toggle off seeing ticket prices.
- You can choose to see only direct trains.
- National Rail departure and arrival boards.
- Official National Rail platform numbers.
- Clear disruption, delay, and cancellation notices.
- Pin trains and journeys for easy access later on.
- You can save route searches for quick access.
- Optional settings, so you can customise Railboard to how you like it.
Contact info
71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9JQ, London, United Kingdom
- hello@railboard.com
- railboard.com
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Reply from Railboard
Thanks for the nice review, Rob! ~Jon
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the nice review, Andrew! ~Jon
Easy to use app and easy to book
27 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the nice review, Ellie! ~Jon
excellent experience
It was an excellent experience. And £20 cheaper than my attempt to book through the Northern rail app. The itinerary and explanation of when to get on and off was particularly helpful and appreciated as were the links to “real” timetables. Hugely recommended.
23 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the great review! I'm happy Railboard made your journey both cheaper and easier! ~Jon
The safeguarding of children on trains…
The safeguarding of children on trains is completely invisible. Children between 11-16 unsupervised and without tickets on hearing conversations getting on and off the train between stations and not one ticket collector or adult in sight.
22 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Hi Hannah,
Not ideal there weren't enough staff about to check tickets and keep an eye on things. So I appreciate that it wasn't exactly the best experience.
Although, as a ticket retailer, while we try to make the ticket buying experience as good as possible, there's not much we can do about how many staff each train operating company deploys on their services.
Hopefully your journeys in the future are better!
~Jon
Reply from Railboard
Thanks for the excellent review, Nicola! ~Jon
Cancelled train and lack of information…
Cancelled train and lack of information and booked seat lost. After arriving an hour in advance.
28 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Hi John,
Sorry that your train was cancelled, it was a decision by the train operating company running the service. Sometimes trains are cancelled with very little notice.
Very sorry that it messed up your travel for the day, especially as you were most definitely prepared!
~Jon
Smooth purchase and use of tickets
Smooth purchase and use of tickets. Clear details available in order to choose which train to book.
27 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the excellent review, Pauline! ~Jon
Prompt delivery of E tickets
Prompt delivery of E tickets. Scheduled trains due to run ahead of other Apps
3 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thanks for the good review, Arthur! ~Jon
i FOUND IT EASY TO NAVIGATE AND…
i FOUND IT EASY TO NAVIGATE AND INFORMATION WAS VERY CLEAR
24 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the nice review, Vincent! ~Jon
Reply from Railboard
Thanks for the nice review, Jill! ~Jon
Very useful and easy to use
Very easy to use and work out the best tickets. Great for planning journeys and checking real time trains. Great end to end service - my go-to for rail now.
19 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the great review, Jenny, and for choosing Railboard! ~Jon
Really helpful and intuitive app.
21 May 2026
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Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the nice review, Nigel! ~Jon
Railboard has the best user interface
Railboard has the best user interface out of all the train ticket apps I’ve used and is my preferred ticket app. It has saved a lot of money over the years.
The only ways to improve the app would be to add more advanced routing options, intensive search, being able to add multiple via/avoid/departure/destinations all on the same journey. Another train booking platform has this but the UI not so friendly.
14 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the fantastic review, James!
And thank you for the feature request too. I've added another vote for more advanced search options, and noted down the specific ideas you've mentioned there.
~Jon
Like that tickets appear on my phone home screen
Railboard is my preferred live tracker and planner but I don't usually buy tickets through the app. However Railboard now matches Trainline with the tickets popping up on my home screen so am more likely to use the app to buy in future.
2 May 2026
Unprompted review
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the nice review, Caroline, and for using Railboard. We're very happy when people are using the app for either train times or train tickets! ~Jon
Easy and fast app
Easy to use, never had any issues.
More than a year using this as a alternate to national rail app due to their last update.
Information is always up to date about any disruption.
5 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the fantastic review, Noman! ~Jon
Great app, prices and support
Great app. Great prices. And awesome customer support.
I am a regular commuter so use this app a lot.
Despite that, I’ve managed to mis-book tickets a few times now and they’ve always been brilliant at helping me sort the situation out.
I love the transparency with split tickets and am very happy to share the savings with them to keep funding this brilliant app
27 April 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the fantastic review, Tim, and your continued support of Railboard! ~Jon
Booking tickets was a breeze and was…
Booking tickets was a breeze and was the first time for me.
2 May 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the great review, Tracy! ~Jon
It’s very easy to use
It’s very easy to use.
I use it regularly and it does what I need.
30 April 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thanks for the great review, Helen! ~Jon
When nobody could drive me to Gatwick I…
When nobody could drive me to Gatwick I took the train, total convert it’ll be the train for me now.
29 April 2026
Reply from Railboard
Thank you for the nice review, Liz! ~Jon
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