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From cologne Germany to Milan Italy

Assuming you have a global pass there are a couple of errors in the above reply: If you do travel by the 2353 from Cologne you only need to set your journey to change at Basel SBB (Not Basel Bad. Basel SBB is in Switzerland so you have left Germany on a train scheduled before 2359 and a further In/Out day is not needed to Milan. Thank you for the correction.

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From cologne Germany to Milan Italy

With the One-Country-Pass you can only use trains in that specific country. So you would have to buy a ticket from Cologne through Switzerland to the first stop beyond the Italian border. With a global pass you have one trip from your home country and another one back there free. As far as I know it is important, that you have to use two of your travel days if you change trains after midnight on a trip, that started before midnght. The Nightjet from Cologne starts at 23.53, so you would have to use two traveldays for the trip to Milan.

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Mehrere kleine Reisen zu machen und zwichendurch wieder nach Deutschland zurück zu kehren. Ist das möglich?

Ich habe dasselbe vor. Habe einen Dreimonatspass zum halben Preis gekauft und will damit drei oder vier Touren machen. Einmal kann ich dabei mit dem Pass von Zuhause aus Deutschland raus und einmal wieder reinfahren. Für die anderen Fahrten aus Deutschland raus bzw. nach Deutschland rein muss ich dann Fahrkarten bis/vom ersten Halt außerhalb Deutschlands hinter der Grenze kaufen. In manchen Fällen gibt es auch Bahnhöfe, die für beide Länder Inland sind, zum Beispiel Salzburg Hauptbahnhof. Ungünstig dürfte sein, wenn der gewünschte Zug hinter der Grenze nicht hält wie beispielsweise der TGV von Frankfurt nach Paris, der ab Saarbrücken durchfährt. Ich fürchte, da muss man die komplette Fahrt bezahlen und nicht nur einen Anteil bis kurz hinter der Grenze. Habe per Mail mal bei der Bahn gefragt, wie man das am besten lösen kann, wurde an die Verkaufszentren in den Bahnhöfen verwiesen. Ich habe allerdings ohnehin eher vor, mit langsameren Zügen mit mehr Stopps und Umstiegen zu fahren, damit

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Eurobahn services Venlo- Duesseldorf included?

Eurobahn (Keolis) is in the list of German companies that accept interrail passes: https://www.interrail.eu/content/dam/pdfs/internationale-passangebote-jan-2021.pdf

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Pete Bensimon
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3 months Continuous Pass- can I split it into several shorter trips?

Can I pause the pass after returning from France, and start using it again when I get back from Central Asia? I suspect not, but I’m not sure. You’re right, when the pass is activated and your first travel day runs, you cannot pause.Stephan

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Pete Bensimon
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3 months Continuous Pass- can I split it into several shorter trips?

Thanks Stephan, that’s useful to know. I’ve looked in the app and I can see that the Validity Period is from 17 Sep - 16 Dec., so I guess it hasn’t been started yet. But underneath it says “Outbound/Inbound 0/2 used”. What does that mean? You can travel from 17 Sep to 16 Dec, but I think you can still change that before 17 Sep.“Outbound/Inbound 0/2 used” means, that you have still not used your two trips from your/back to your home country.Stephan

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Pete Bensimon
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3 months Continuous Pass- can I split it into several shorter trips?

  Oh dear! Is there any way that I can find out whether I have activated my Pass? If you open the app, you can choose at the bottom of the display “My pass”. Then you see, whether the pass is already activated. As far as I have learned in the last days, you can change the start date of your pass by deleting your trip, but I haven’t tried that myself.Stephan

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