Cashless ticketpilot in city

Rail Minister Danny Kennedy explained that the new system was being tested in a number of locations across Northern Ireland.

“The Department’s Roads Service is presently piloting a cashless payment scheme for parking charges using mobile phone technology. The scheme is currently operating in Belfast, Londonderry, Newry, Lisburn and Omagh.

“Translink has developed an application called mlink that enables passengers to purchase and download rail tickets to their internet-enabled mobile phones.

There are no other such systems currently being developed,” he advised.