I have tried that German site for train scheduals but they don't always give the cost of the ticket.
I am going to be biking in Provence, and after that not sure where I should go but was thinking Berges and the Baltic countries.
When I enter Burges I just get times but not the cost.
When I am in thses small towns in souther France it should be easy to just to the train station and buy the ticket the day of travel??
thanks
Hi Stew,
www.sncf.com is the french rail line, and you should be able to get info there as well as prices.Unless there are special circumstances (holidays, sundays) I would think you could just "buy a ticket" at the station, but I am not sure.
Sylvia
For small towns served by regional rail, some stops have no train stations, just machines that sell tickets. Or you can buy a ticket from the conductor, in which case you are supposed to find him or her when you board (and not wait to be "found").
For both of these purposes, have cash.
The German Rail website only shows fares for connections for which they sell tickets online (for self-print or mail delivery), so they won't show fares for routes entirely inside a transit district (Verkehrsverbund, like MVV in Munich) or (usually) for routes that don't have one terminus (start or end) in Germany. That's still better than some countries' websites, that only sell tickets for trains that are entirely inside the country. (Don't try to find the fare for a direct train from Vienna to Prague on either the Austrian or Czech rail websites.)
The French national rail site, www.voyages-sncf.com, will give you fares, but unless you can read French it isn't helpful. If you click on the British flag icon for English but say you want to pick up your ticket in France, then you are diverted right back to the French version. If you're on the English version and choose the USA or Canada for ticket delivery, you're bumped to the RailEurope site where fares are inflated and the timetables are limited to routes for which RE sells tickets.
For help with using the SNCF site in French, go here.
That seems like a pain to get pricing and costs before one leaves.
Rail passes are good to get around that.
I did not realize that bout the German site for pricing that the train has to start there first.
Stew....the SNCF isn't all that difficult to move around even in French. You will find that, with a little bit of exploration, you will save a ton of money over purchasing a pass. And I'm pretty sure there's no rail pass available for Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia...at least none available here. BTW, you spoke of going to "Berges and the Baltic countries" then "When I enter Burges." Just wondering which city you're referring to there?
Norm
I meant Burges.
I thought of just spending a day there?
Would that be long enough?
Just wonder how long of a train ride from Paris?
