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https://www.16-17saver.co.uk/benefits

Trying to come up with a systematic list of railcards and similar ... note that restrictions vary

* Travelling alone
0 - 4      free travel when accompanied (and too young to travel alone!)
5 - 15      travel at 50% normal fare - no railcard needed
16 - 17      travel at 50% normal fare with 16-17 railcard (on sale from 20th August 2019)
16 - 25      travel at 66% normal fare with 15-25 railcard
26 - 30      travel at 66% normal fare with 16-30 railcard
Any Age      travel at 66% normal fare NETWORK RAILCARD AREA ONLY with a Network railcard
60 - up    travel at 66% normal fare with a senior railcard

* Other catergories (not only aged base - other qualifying factors)
Disable Persons Railcard
Priv card
HM Forces Railcard
Jobcentre Plus Railcard
Devon and Cornwall residents card - DEVON AND CORNWALL TRAVEL ONLY
Overseas visitors - Britrail Pass

* For groups
2 together railcard
Family and Friends railcard

Cotswold Line Railcard in our neck of the woods too.

I note that after terminating the word "Saver" with extreme prejudice in an attempt to simplify fares, RDG has now introduced it as a confusing synonym for "Railcard"...

From the 16-17saver website:

So looking at the Young Scot card:

Recommendations for a 17-year old travelling from Dumfries to Carlisle?  ;D

Not forgetting Groupsave - an automatic discount without the need for a railcard.

Might be a daft question but why do we need another railcard for the 16-17 year olds when they already have the young persons (16-25) railcard?

50% discount rather than 34% discount - helps ease their move from children's fares to adult fares, helps them learn that life is full of complicate decisions as to which one to buy, and helps the DfT provide a positive announcement into their press release flow on a day the media's picking up on next January's fare rises.

Also helps them sound up to date by saying you can download it to your phone. Though if I were to get one for my son, I'd get him the card version (this distinction might, by the way, be a clue as to why they've started saying "saver" to replace "railcard"?) because phones don't tend to last too long with him. But he's not quite old enough yet, so...

...this leads me on to a question, which is probably easily answered elsewhere but it's more pleasant to ask you lot now I'm here. Does the 50% discount for children up to 15 end on their 15th birthday or (the day before) their 16th? I presume it's the latter but... ?

Bit similar in a way to the Zip Oyster card systems in London - in effect it pushes the child fare up to 18 but for two years you need proof of entitlement, providing a kind of buffer to ticket staff etc of being able to work out someone's age and entitlement to child fares more easily. Although looking it that way the cost is rather high.

Another option for 16-17 year olds, yet still nothing for single frequent travellers aged 30-60 unless in the blessed south-east? That's the glaring gap and it seems odd that we still don't have an equivalent of DB's BahnCard or NS's Voordeel.

Totally agree - although I've now been along to graduate onto an old foigies card, I will and do keep commenting about the grown iniquity of the current system.  Everyone is a special case ... except 30 to 59 year old solo travellers outside "London".