62
BU Score
Solid
Great Western Railway
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Great Western Railway is an iOS app from First Great Western in the Travel category, currently rated 4.6★ across 2,152 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 62 — Solid (established niche player). For a Travel app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (2,152 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 136 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.6+🔖 v5.0.3🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Free🚀 Launched 2018 (7y old)
📝 About this app
Use the Great Western Railway app to plan your next journey and book train tickets with ease.
Key features:
Book train tickets
* Purchase train tickets across all networks to anywhere in Britain
* Save up to 50% with an Advance train ticket; compared to standard Anytime fares
* No booking or card fees
* Store mobile train tickets in-app to use straight-away
* Convenient home screen widget for ease of access to your tickets for travel today
GWR Rewards
* Join our loyalty programme in-app
* Track points and transactions
* Easily access your rewards to redeem in-app and onboard GWR services
Digital railcards
* Ability to purchase 8 different railcards and store in-app
* Railcards purchased via our website can be stored in-app using your unique code
Check live train times
* View departure and arrival times for all National Rail services
* Check live train timetables and platform numbers
* View facilities and how busy it is onboard with live loading data
* Save your frequent journeys for ease of checking again later
* Keep updated with live GWR network information provided on the home screen
Download now and plan your next train journey.
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Information to note:
You'll need to create an online GWR account or sign-in before you can purchase your train tickets.
Got a question? Here's our FAQs:
https://www.gwr.com/help-and-support/faqs
Need to get in touch? Find the best way to here: https://www.gwr.com/help-and-support/contact-us
Follow us on Twitter: @GWRHelp
Learn more about us at https://www.gwr.com/
Key features:
Book train tickets
* Purchase train tickets across all networks to anywhere in Britain
* Save up to 50% with an Advance train ticket; compared to standard Anytime fares
* No booking or card fees
* Store mobile train tickets in-app to use straight-away
* Convenient home screen widget for ease of access to your tickets for travel today
GWR Rewards
* Join our loyalty programme in-app
* Track points and transactions
* Easily access your rewards to redeem in-app and onboard GWR services
Digital railcards
* Ability to purchase 8 different railcards and store in-app
* Railcards purchased via our website can be stored in-app using your unique code
Check live train times
* View departure and arrival times for all National Rail services
* Check live train timetables and platform numbers
* View facilities and how busy it is onboard with live loading data
* Save your frequent journeys for ease of checking again later
* Keep updated with live GWR network information provided on the home screen
Download now and plan your next train journey.
--
Information to note:
You'll need to create an online GWR account or sign-in before you can purchase your train tickets.
Got a question? Here's our FAQs:
https://www.gwr.com/help-and-support/faqs
Need to get in touch? Find the best way to here: https://www.gwr.com/help-and-support/contact-us
Follow us on Twitter: @GWRHelp
Learn more about us at https://www.gwr.com/
🆕 What's New · v5.0.3
We have made some changes:
The way to sign in and register
Promo codes are now added before you search for your tickets
Our payment provider, so things will look slightly different
The way to sign in and register
Promo codes are now added before you search for your tickets
Our payment provider, so things will look slightly different
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Great Western Railway
- Developer
- First Great Western
- Bundle ID
- com.firstgreatwestern.railtickets
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $2.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1781301520
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
The iOS app 'Great Western Railway' by First Great Western primarily functions as a utility for purchasing train tickets and managing journeys, explicitly stating it has 'No booking or card fees'. Therefore, the app itself does not generate direct revenue through in-app purchases or subscriptions, making a revenue estimate for the app in isolation from the parent company's overall ticket sales not publicly available. The revenue generated is for train tickets, which contributes to the Great Western Railway company's overall annual revenue, estimated at $1.3 billion, but this is not revenue attributable to the app as a standalone product.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Reddit, Growjo, Apple App Store
Citations: apple.com · growjo.com
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.14★ · 0% 5★ · 93.9% 1★
5★0 (0%)
4★2 (4%)
3★0 (0%)
2★1 (2%)
1★46 (94%)
+60,317 ratings/week
Praise: best ×3 great ×1Complaints: terrible ×3 hate ×2 refund ×2 bug ×2 scam ×2
Top positive
★★☆☆☆ Only works 50% of the time
Website is a total nightmare, so not a good backup. I’ll look for other apps to buy train tickets. It’s not supposed to be as hard as this.…
★★★★☆ Big mess
Cant log in to site, to do anything, was looking at a picture of my e’ticket’s and they disappeared never to be found again. No access to account either. Seems i no linger exist😳…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Cant sign in
Cant sign in…
★☆☆☆☆ WORST TRANSIT APP
Didn’t think I could have less respect for how GWR runs its business until this most recent version of the app. Why does GWR so clearly hate its customers?…
📈Ratings growth2,152 ratings+30643% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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