Railway tickets on mobile

If you are traveling by Indian Railways, I had provided a way, to help determine your PNR status through SMS, earlier. At that time I was wondering [or did I hear it somewhere] that they have the project enabling bookings of the railway tickets through mobile, in pipeline as well. I have always been apprehensious of the online transactions because I believe no transaction can be really safe if it is online [but for that matter robbers make even hard-cash transactions unsafe :)].

Getting back to the news, Chiltern Railways in UK have introduced the sending the e-tickets booked through their website to the customerÂ’s mobile. They are offering the customers wanting to travel between Birmingham and London a way to by which after they have made the payment online, they would be sent a barcode through SMS that would be scanned before they would be let on board.

Although this not exactly mobile purchase but Chiltern Railways say that they plan to launch the service that would enable purchase of tickets through mobile as well.

News Sourced from here.