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Transfer smartcard ticket to phone

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I have a Chiltern Railways smartcard and an Andriod phone with NFC. If I hold the smartcard next to the phone it suggests I can transfer the ticket from the smartcard onto the phone.
Presumably I could then use the phone to get through the ticket barriers and use my phone for revenue checks.
Does this work and would it be valid for a National Rail journey?
 
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It does work for some TOCs / Apps at the moment e.g. SWR and GTR have both been mentioned on here recently. I tried the other day (SWR) and it failed at the point of ticket delivery to my smartcard, for a reason that SWR were apparently aware of and should be being fixed within the next week or so. Others have had success with cross TOC tickets/smartcards
 
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I know you can definitely transfer the ticket TO a smartcard using an Android phone, I have done it with the Chiltern and GA apps. It is quite good actually! But not seen where you can use the phone itself for travel.​
 
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whoops, i see i misread the question -- i suppose the current closest is TFL contactless on your phone using Samsung/Apple/Google Pay
 
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causton said:
I know you can definitely transfer the ticket TO a smartcard using an Android phone, I have done it with the Chiltern and GA apps. It is quite good actually! But not seen where you can use the phone itself for travel.​
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Yes. Strictly speaking that is loading a smart ticket. Transferring is moving a ticket (product) from one smartcard to another (e.g. because of damage to, or loss of, one smartcard).
 
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As far as I know the only implementation of ITSO on Mobile so far is Swift on Mobile valid on the Midland Metro.
 
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