Ironfreak
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Posted 15 years ago
Hello!
I am a employee of a company from the Swiss Federal Railways and we have free cards (translation from German..).
for the most European railways companies.
How can I get informations for the supplements of the nightrains in Eastern Europe?
I plane a trip from Basel-Vienna-Budapest-Beograd-Sofia-Istanbul-Bukarest-Chisinau-Kiev-Moskava-St.Petersburg-Minsk-Warschau-Berlin-Basel next year.
Are there an international tarif for nightrains? or are there railway companies with different tarifs for the same train?
And are there a better Timetable than the Thomas Cook Timetable?
Thank you for your answers and sorry for my bad English! :D
Peter
Traveller
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hej hej ...
as employee of the Swiss national railway company you are a lucky person to get free tickets.
for night trains, have a look at the country topics of this forum .
if you travel by InterRail (at least in the countries which belong to InterRail) you will get discounts (at the ticket office tell them code 44 for rail-passes).
examples:
[b]Basel - Vienna[/b]: first by free ICE to Baden-Baden, then by night train to Vienna: [u]https://rail.cc/en/strasbourg-karlsruhe-vienna-night-train/f1450[/u]
On this route you leave Switzerland (your [u]https://rail.cc/de/wie-funktioniert-interrail[/u] country of residence) immediately, so you travel for free.
[b]Vienna - Budapest[/b]: by free day train [u]https://rail.cc/en/train-type/railjet-oebb/54[/u]
[b]Budapest - Beograd[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/budapest-belgrade-night-train/f3370[/u]
[b]Beograd - Sofia[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/belgrade-sofia-night-train/f3410[/u]
[b]Sofia - Istanbul[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/belgrade-sofia-istanbul-train/f3054[/u]
[b]Istanbul - Bucharest[/b]: [u]https://rail.cc/en/istanbul-bucharest-night-train/f3418[/u]
and so on ...
for Russia I do not have any details, but you should be able to book the tickets in Switzerland - or (it will be definitely cheaper) at the RILA offices in Bulgaria. These are the official ticket offices of the Bulgarian national railway company. One for example based in Sofia main station, main entry, turn left, in the corner - blue/white logo.
I hope this will help starting your tour.
Have fun, Peter :)