thekatalysts
Traveller
1 comments
Posted 10 years ago
Hi all,
I'm researching the Warsaw - Vienna route for mid-September, and am interested in taking a night train.
I found a night train on Rail Dude here: [u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/krakow-vienna-d-402/407/70[/u]
However, when I look at the InterRail website timetable, I don't see this train, and the most similar train actually has 3 connections (Warsaw - Bohumin, Bohumin - Hohenau, Hohenau - Vienna). This route will not only cost me 2 travel days, it's also a pretty bad route to take for sleep as each train is only 2 hours long.
Can someone enlighten this newbie?
Thanks :)
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi!
That's why we use proper schedule planners... ;) [u]https://rail.cc/en/search-interrail-route[/u]
Of course you do not have to change twice in the middle of the night, the night train runs through all the way from Warsaw to Vienna offering seats, couchette and sleeper accomodation.
Especially the shown change in Hohenau is a bit amusing...I dont know the exact reason why these two changes are shown, it probably has something to do with the fact that the Warsaw - Wien night train also carries portions for Prague (until Bohumin) and Budapest (until Breclav, the Czech border station, the next station would be Hohenau on the Austrian border) as well as getting portions from Krakow (in Bohumin) and Berlin (in Breclav)...anyway as said above, the train runs all the way through and as long as you get a reservation in the cars n° 349, 750, 351 or 352 (these are the direct cars Warsaw - Vienna) you will be fine. ;)
Flo 8)
nltrainer
Traveller
1405 comments
most of you newbies do not seem to realise anymore how old-style trains work. They have CARS=waggons, behind a locomotive-and en-route they may switch some of the cars to other trains. Not that it happens much nowadays, but these overnight trains with seats/sleepers etc in low-cost countries can still do it. Thus the train in WAW has cars to Wien, Prahy, Budapest, maybe even more.
Now those silly new-day computer planners are unable to udnerstand that too (which again supports my view that computers make people dumb, not smarter), as the train NBRS on which the REServation systems are based, also change. YOu do not need to change, thats done for you! Now what about airplanes being able to do that?
BUSes-yes, they once did. They could switch trailers to another trucker-bus-Ive seen it and went by it.
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
Like Flow wrote: use proper schedule planers and you are fine. Use the information on railcc - and support it with the purchase of your official Interrail pass via the railcc partner links: [ux]https://rail.shop/interrail[/ux] . Thank you, Peter :)