National Rail Enquiries offers iPhone app

Comments

• Ought to be a free app, but no doubt National Rail have realised how uselessly slow their ad-ridden site is on anything other than a proper PC. No ads for us means another revenue stream from selling this app.
  
  There are alternatives however. I use the UK trains web app at:
  
  http://themacbox.co.uk/iphone/trains/#_Search
  
  Posted by Mackanory, UK
• Which is app is it - how can you have missed out that piece of information :) . There is a free version called MyRail Lite, by NRE, which I guess is the cutdown version of the one mentioned. Posted by Chris, UK
• MyRail Lite is no longer there! If this is owned by National Rail you can expect an enormous price hike every year too! Posted by mike, UK
• It's appalling that a public service is charging £4.99 for information that should be free. £4.99! That's more expensive than most apps on the store - disgrace. I just hope National Rail get some watchdog onto them. Posted by Robert, UK
• National Rail have squeezed out MyRail Lite - an excellent little app which was offering a good interface to (what should be, at least) public data - just to wring more money out of passengers who, frankly, already get squeezed enough on their trains. Posted by Richard George, UK
• What they did to Kizoo and MyRailLite is a crime, make your point here:
  
  http://nationalrail.co.uk/contact/feedback/comments.html
  
  £4.99 for accessing free info - wrong ! The PC gadget is free, they are ripping people off.
  
  Posted by Mick Dann, UK
• I have been writing about this on my Blog and have had a response from National Rail Enquiries. What thay have done is quite clearly anti competative and I encorage as meany people as possible to contact the OFT and complain.
  Posted by The Daily Male, UK
• Thankfully there is a nice FREE alternative here....
  
  http://themacbox.co.uk/iphone/trains/
  
  even has a nice home page icon when added!!
  
  Stick it National Rail!
  
  Posted by stu blair, UK
• I have complained to national rail (via their feedback link - details above), and also made a complaint to the Competition Commission. I suggest everyone else who used MyRail Lite does the same. Posted by PJM, United Kingdom