Replies posted by desperado

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Länderbahn included

@desperado should be included in the pass, where the German Rail Fare for local trains is valid “Deutschlandtarif”,  In Czech Republic only CD, Regiojet and LeoExpress accept Interrail/Eurail if I am not wrong. Like Arriva CZ (a company of DB) do not accept it. Maybe it is the same here for trains of Länderbahn CZ (a company of Netinera - part of Trenitalia).  The app / web journey planner show the “Die Länderbahn CZ” trains as included (look up Chomutov to Jirkov for example). If, in the app, you do “more” → “Rail network guides” → “Czech Republic”, “Die Länderbahn CZ” is not listed, either as included or as excluded. It’s just missing.

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Railly clever
1 year ago
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Länderbahn included

Just to confirm, it used to be mentioned as not being included but this has recently been adjusted as Die Länderbahn is indeed covered by Eurail/ Interrail. Cheers,  Die Länderbahn CZ also operate some local services around Chomutov. I just had the pass refused on one of these so it’s not as simple as saying DLB is covered by the pass. Fortunately I was only going two stops and the lady didn’t bother charging me.

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Railly clever
1 year ago
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desperadoKeeps calm and carries on
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any way to export 'my trip' in machine readable form?

@Claudi. A PDF would certainly be helpful for some people but isn’t what my friend was after. He wanted something that he could read into Microsoft Excel or similar - i.e. one train = one row in the sheet. That would need either a proper Microsoft Excel file or a .CSV file which Excel can import.@rvdborgt Thank you for the suggestion about the link.For anyone reading finding this via search in the future, if you know what you’re doing then you can ‘wget’ the ‘Share as Link’ URL. The resulting HTML file includes the train and trip data in JSON format. It fails the Excel ‘read JSON’ feature but it may be possible to fix that. I’ve not got that far yet.

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Hohenzollerische Landesbahn (SWEG) services in the pass?

@mcadv Many thanks for the long and detailed reply. I just started a 3 month continuous pass from the sale so I will be using a pass day tomorrow whether I want to or not.You mention “ very few minor tiny branches that SWEG has started with->100 yrs go and which were always out of pass-scheme”. If you look at the lines I mention, these were probably never in the pass scheme before. I am deliberately searching out lines that only have a service at weekends.

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1 year ago
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ZiblibliFull steam ahead
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No Interrail in Lithuania ?

From my first train ride in Lithuania …Third class includes ex-Soviet era trains, particularly diesel units. The one I’m riding in right now (Vilnius- Marcinkonys) has a modern interior but no air-con and no power sockets. The seats are padded but hard. First and second class appear to be used for modern trains. There were 3 people in the ticket office at the main station in Vilnius. One spoke English and knew what an Interrail was. People under perhaps 30-35 in Vilnius speak good English but people over that no so good. Presumably English replaced Russian as the second language in the schools here some time between 10 and 20 years ago. She knew all about the train to Poland and I had no problem getting free tickets for the trains from Vilnius to Kaunas and Kaunas to Poland on Saturday. Trains within Lithuania tomorrow were a problem as the trains on the route Vilnius - Šiauliai - Klaipėda were full later in the journey and getting a ticket for the part of the journey were there was sp

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No Interrail in Lithuania ?

I’ve just arrived in Vilnius to travel on the train to Poland on Saturday. I’ve bought a ticket for this afternoon online as it’s not worth using a pass for today. I’ll see what they have to say about interrails at the station later. The LTG link web site has this page for services to Poland - https://ltglink.lt/en/kaunas-bialystok-kaunas .

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1 year ago
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(Poland) web site and journey planner disagree on using pass on Koleje Wielkopolskie trains

I also found this from PKP IC while Googling - https://www.intercity.pl/en/site/for-passengers/offers/oferta-interrail/jak-korzystac-z-biletu-przewodnik-en.html This is basically what the Interrail web site says and what others have said and reinforces my view that the app (and the journey planner) are wrong.

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1 year ago
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(Poland) web site and journey planner disagree on using pass on Koleje Wielkopolskie trains

This is a screenshot from the polish interrail reservation guide. So it’s not valid. @Hektor: Is this document publicly available? It’s in English so perhaps it might be?

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1 year ago
Joerg Stein
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Problem with Mobile Pass in Czech

@Nanja  Thank you for the response.I’m sure I’ve used mobile passes successfully with CD before so I had the impression that something had stopped working which did work previously. It feels like a CD computer fault to me.Four of the five ticket inspectors I had on Saturday did not speak enough English for me to negotiate with. The only one who did (the youngest) didn’t comment on any problem with his machine reading the pass.You might consider having the mobile pass include some text in Czech that explains that “they can inspect the ticket via visual validation” so that pass holders have something they can use.

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2 years ago
Joerg Stein
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Problem with Mobile Pass in Czech

Same here. 3 CD conductors today could not read the pass - fortunately none of them made me pay. I hadn’t heard of the problem first thing this morning so I don’t know if it worked for the only CD guard who spoke English :(It also failed for KZC where I did have to pay but I didn’t expect it to work even though the app accepted the trains.

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How to report train companies where mobile app not recognised?

@Nanja The barcode readers just don’t get any information from the barcode in the pass. A UK guard showed me the display of his reader yesterday - just “no information” everywhere. It looks like they need to do a software update.

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Railly clever
1 year ago
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