burak136
Traveller
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Posted 12 years ago
Hello,
I have 4 days interrail ticket for Germany. I read it is also valid until Basel. I wanna use it for Frankfurt-Zurich(my route is Frankfurt-Zürich-Basel-Frankfurt in the same day). So, since my ticket is only valid until Basel, what should do?
According to [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] , there is direct trains to Zürich and Basel. How do I pay for the Basel - Zürich? Or am I obliged to change trains and buying a new ticket? Like geting off at Basel and taking a SBB train? Or can I go directly by paying a fee?
Second question, trains for this route listed in [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] are ICE and IC trains. I think they are trains of DB. Should I care it? I mean is there any Austrian train company running on this route? Should I avoid it? Are all IC and ICE trains listed on [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] for this route okay to use?
Thanks in advance ;)
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi.
First thing (to avoid wondering as links are change automatically) ... we are not using bahn.de here on railcc, we are using the railcc version here: [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux]
;)
Okay, to your question.
There are two stations in Basel (at least the ones important for long-distance trains):
[b]Basel Bad Bf[/b]: Basel Badischer Bahnhof) which belongs in the sense of the railway companies to Germany.
[b]Basel SBB[/b]: the central station of Switzerland, belongs to Switzerland.
You can use your Interrail German Pass only until [b]Basel Bad Bf[/b].
From there you need a ticket. It doesn't matters if it is a German or Swiss train type.
So buy a train ticket either in Germany at a station or online via the links above for Basel Bad Bf - Zürich HB. You can also try the website of the Swiss national railway. One-way should be about ~ EUR 28. Total: EUR 56.
Not very cheap, so think about if you add a pass for Switzerland: [u]https://rail.cc/en/interrail-pass-switzerland[/u]
Peter :)
nltrainer
Traveller
1404 comments
FYI-as this gets so often confused about
ANY of Europe's main railways''companies'' which are effectively nearly all state-owned entities, have some wonderful work-together concept that ANY station able to sell INTERnational tickets (in germany that is in fact ANY staffed station-but in some other countries this may be different) can also do that for such trips not in that country.
Just like you can mail a letter in a german postbox and it will be delivered in Switzerland-or Brasil-without having to buy a stamp for that country also. BUT: it is NOT cheap-in most cases, for West-Europe you usualy pay the normal full fare, for East-Europe there is often a big mark-up.
For the many ignorant Brits around here: when there was BR (british Rail-the same type of state-owned rail entity) they also had in some main stations (like Leeds or Brum) offices being able to do that.
These tickets do-mostly- NOT start/end at real stations-but at border tariff points, so that each country gets its own right share-the price for travel via more countries is simply the added sums for all fares in each country apart.