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A German Train Question

Posted by (Atlanta) on

I know that on Sunday, Dec 8, I and 3 friends need to catch a train in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and end in Salzburg. On the DB site I see a train leaving at 10:05, arriving Salzburg at 13:42, Savings Fare 46 euro total for 4 persons IF I am reading this correctly. Because of the price, I'm thinking this must be a Bayern ticket. My questions:

Is this the price for a ticket bought for day of travel? I don't have to buy this ahead of time, right?

If I buy the ticket and somehow manage not to get on the train, is the ticket good for the next train at 11:55?

I guess I won't know for sure until the winter schedule is released if there will be a 10:05 train, right?

Thank you for your help. Although I have a lifetime EU driver's license, I have angst each time I get on a train, knowing I may be about to learn something else I don't know about train travel. Danke!

The above trip goes through Munich. I see another possibility of going through Innsbruck for 65 euro. Would that be a more scenic trip? What kind of ticket would that be??

Posted by
2232 posts

Do not know what you saw but sounds like Bayern ticket.

Q1: yes.

Q2: no.

Q3: If it is a regional train (RE or RB) yes. No ICE; no IC.

Q4: correct

And by the way: these were 4 questions :-) The last one(s) an Austrian specialist better answers.

Posted by
967 posts

Thank you, Mark. When I start contemplating train travel my questions tend to multiply, geometrically.

Posted by
2333 posts

Yes, € 46 is the fare of a Bayern Ticket for four travellers (€25 + 3 x 7). The fare for the connection via Innsbruck is per traveller (flex price Europe, involving a RJ train). You would be better off by combining four single tickets from Garmisch to Scharnitz (first station in Austria) with an Austrian "Einfach raus" ticket but that would be more expensive than the BT (€46 + €42) and also take 1-2 hours longer. But the route via Innsbruck is definitely more scenic.

I guess I won't know for sure until the winter schedule is released if there will be a 10:05 train, right?

Maybe it will depart at 10:03 or 10:07 then but it will not be cancelled since the schedule is based on a long-term contract between DB and the Bavarian Rail Authority.

Posted by
19092 posts

The Austrian Rail connection using an Einfach-Raus-Ticket would have to be by regional trains, which take a route from Innsbruck to Salzburg via Zell am See rather than the express route via Kufstein and Rosenheim (which is only run by RailJets). The route via Zell am See would be more scenic than the route via Rosenheim (which would include most of the Munich to Salzburg route, anyway), but, as SLA points out, would take longer (ie, over 4 hrs vs less than 2 hrs).

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