I will be on a train from Budapest to Vienna.
I understand what train it is.
I understand I am in seat 81.
I understand I am in 2nd class.
What I don't know where to find is where to find what car my seat is in and I can't seem to find that information on the OBB website.
How do I find what car I am in on my ticket?
Thank you for your help,
Mark
The car number should be on your ticket, next to where your seat nr. is. Should be on the same line. If the ticket is in English it will be "Coach", but if in German it will be "Wagen" or "Wgn"
Edit: Are you on an RJ or an EC services? The EC services have cars numbered 410-415, on RJ(x) trains it is usually 21-27 or 31-37
It is on your ticket -- what does your ticket indicate???
Thank you, I found it. I am in Wagen 24
I didn't know it was Wagen.
If you need to find a translation like this, you can use Google Translate - open it up, use the cAmera function, and either take a photo of the ticket or piece of paper or menu,.or just hover above it live, and Google Translate will translate the words for you.
Mark,
If you have a smartphone, maybe install the Google Translate app. In addition to normal translation; including phonetic, it allows you to point your camera at an object, such as a ticket, and it will translate live.
EDIT: I just saw the above reply
I am just going to use this thread instead of creating a new one regarding OBB train reservations:
I had purchased tickets (for 4) for two different routes (2nd class) more than a week ago:
I just reserved the seats last night for both routes and here are I was assigned the following coach/seat numbers:
That's right. They are exactly the same. What are the odds that they would assign the exact same seats? Is this an error? Do I need reach out to OBB to confirm?
Appreciate your thoughts!
Since you must have requested 4 seats across a table in 2nd class, there are only so many, and it just happened that you got the same seats. The Railjet trainsets have 4 2nd class carriages, and each has 8 such seating arrangements So you had a 1 in 32 chance of getting identical seat numbers on 2 different trains. Not that much of a long shot.
https://www.seat61.com/reference/trainseatplans/OBB-railjet.pdf
Do I need reach out to OBB to confirm?
No.
By the way, when I am traveling back and forth, I try to get the same car/seat numbers deliberately, because it is easier to remember in my age. :-)
They are exactly the same. What are the odds that they would assign
the exact same seats? Is this an error?
When is this trip? You might just be the very first one by a long margin to reserve seats on that train...
Thanks everyone. It is a relief to see there is no error.
@Sam - I like your statistics and thanks for the link to seat plans!
@wmt1 - I am right there with you..... As my brain is not as sharp as it once used to be, I don't need to put extra effort to locate the coach/seats :)
@WengenK - Traveling Oct 28 & 30.
Railways often reserve seats in a systematic way. I know that for example SBB starts from the cars adjacent from the restaurant car. On TGVs the 16 seats adjacent to the restaurant are however always the last ones to be reserved (so that is where you go if you board a TGV without a seat reservation).
If you do a request for a reservation on two trains a month in advance not a lot of seats will already be reserved, and if the system starts looking for your table of four from the same end of the train in both cases it is not all that odd that it lands on the same seat numbers...
This thread got me looking more closely at my ÖBB tickets from Budapest to Vienna on December 15th. I have the tickets downloaded to my phone. I have 2 second class tickets on Train Ec 144 on a Savings Rail Ticket (Sparschiene) but I do not have a wagon number or seat assignment.
Is this one of the trains where I should have purchased a seat assignment? There was no prompt for that when purchasing tickets.
When I went back to ÖBB and enter seat reservation only for the 144 train it said “ticket not available”.
Any ideas?
When I went back to ÖBB and enter seat reservation only for the 144 train it said “ticket not available”.
Any ideas?
December 15th is the very first day of the new train time table for 2025. There is a yellow banner on the ticket purchasing page, saying that the negotiations and adjustments for the new time table are not finished yet.
EC trains have different car and seat numbering compared to RailJet trains. This EC train is operated by the Hungarian Railways (MÁV), RailJet trains usually by the Austrian Railways (OeBB).
As the Hungarian website does not offer seat reservations as well (https://jegy.mav.hu/), I assume that the car configuration of this train is not known yet.
Just try from time to time to get your seat reservations. You can do it as well at a ticket counter after you will have been arrived in Budapest.
Tickets and reservations are separately. Tickets are for travel. So when you buy a ticket you buy the right to board a train on a particular route. In order to sell tickets all a railway needs to know is that they will be running trains. In the past when you bought tickets you did not even select a a train, only an origin and destinaion. That you start the ticket buying process by selecting a train from the timetable is actually a rather new development.
Reservations give you a seat in a car on a train, so in order to sell reservations the railway must know what exact train composition will be diagrammed on a service.
That is why it happens that you sometimes can already buy tickets, but not yet reservations.
