RicardoVerdi
Traveller
1 comments
Posted 10 years ago
I am struggling to correctly read the bahn rail timetables. I am a bit confused as I had thought that bahn.com ( [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] ) listed all Eurpoean trains. When I do a search for Tirano to Milan it does not show the 13:10. I plan to get this after taking the Bernina Express to Tirano. Does anyone know why the 13:10 is not listed, but several other trains are? The 13:10 is on the trenitalia website italiatrains.co.uk, so I'm hoping it's genuine! Trenitalia shows direct trains every 2 hours, each taking 2½ hours. But bahn show none of these direct trains, only 1 or more connections, some taking 5 or even 9 hours, & including a bus! Clearly I must be doing something wrong, but as it's in Italy I hope the Italian website is correct. (This is for 20 May 2014.)
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi!
The Deutsche Bahn website does not show all trains in Europe. One example are the local trains around Milano in Lombardia operated by Trenord company. Trenord does not supply their timetables to Deutsche Bahn, that's why they are not shown on DB website.
Timetables are only available on Trenitalia website, Trenord website or here: [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/tirano-to-milan[/u]
Flo 8)
nltrainer
Traveller
1404 comments
And thats an example of why that (damned by so many) EU has a proposal to FORCE all transport providers to deliver their date to a central timetabling unit.
Its also 1 of the first lessons i ever learnt for computing-last century: you can only get out what someone has bothered to put in.
Italians are definitely among the very worst in provinding reliable and uptodate timetable data.