How can I buy a train ticket for someone who Is not In the same train station as me?

Can you transfer the money to her so she can buy it? Or can she go by National Express coach and does she have a mobile 'phone - you can by m-tickets (sent to a mobile 'phone) on their website and have them sent to someone else's 'phone.

There is a facility for stranded passengers, go to your local ticket office and pay for the ticket and providing her station has a ticket office it can be printed off there. it can only be done on the day and is only for stranded passengers.

you could buy a prepaid visa card and try going to their website and buy a ticket, go to a ticket machine at a station before friday, or send her money so she can buy a ticket.

If you're talking about buying a ticket on the Internet, and then collecting it at a station from a ticket machine - then yes, the person collecting the ticket does need the card that was used to buy the ticket to be able to collect it. Sadly there's no way around this, and the restrictions were put in place in order to combat ticket fraud. Note that it doesn't matter which train station the person who the tickets were bought for is travelling from, or even from which train station the tickets were collected - all that counts is that the person who collects the tickets is the same person who bought the tickets, and is able to prove this by putting the debit or credit card in the machine.

Fantastic cat is correct, at one time you could buy them online and have the option of the tickets being sent by post, that appears to be finished.