Travel Technology

Future-proofing Trainline

Services Provided

Engineering

Specialisms

Platforms

The Challenge

The Trainline team needed help in optimising their legacy platform and redesigning its user interface. They were looking for a partner to onboard Node.js to rebuild their web experience for both desktop and mobile, as well as to build up new skill sets and capabilities within their team to create a world class software engineering organisation.

The Client

Trainline is a leading UK ticket reseller with the main mission to help customers save time and money on their rail travel.

Client’s Goal

Trainline needed help onboarding Node.js technology and building up their in-house capability.

The Approach

Working and integrating our teams within Trainline’s team, we built up their development capabilities while transforming the monolithic trainline.com website from .Net/ C# to a Node.js backend for React.js frontend architecture that scales horizontally, and improves application and business performance; supporting a global customer base by handling multiple currencies and languages.

The Deliverables

As a result of our engagement, we streamlined the software development process, achieving faster and incremental updates. We also introduced improved features such as redesigned shopping baskets and payment pages. These improvements were supported by a robust and scalable Node.js framework that enhanced the overall user experience.

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Closing the Engagement

Among other developments, we migrated existing customers across the separate European sites to a single global platform and localised the site in four additional European languages, intending to internationalise the site entirely.