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A different city connection

  • April 19, 2025
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Hello,

My husband, 20 year old daughter and myself are traveling next month from Amsterdam to Würzburg and multiple other locations in Germany then back to Amsterdam to fly back home. 
I made an error in my train seat reservations (which cannot be changed), but fortunately caught now.

As I am looking to again reserve those seats which are optional, I noticed the rail planner has Frankfurt as the connecting city. However, on other ticket sites, Düsseldorf is listed as the connecting city.

If I reserve on the rail planner, will I truly have reserved seats on the train to Düsseldorf?

And though likely covered elsewhere, do we really need to reserve seats on this route?

My sincere thanks for any assistance in this matter.

Michele

Best answer by zagmund

Assuming the reservation you are talking about is from Amsterdam to Wurzburg . . . you should be able to change at Dusseldorf, Cologne or Frankfurt as the routes share tracks between these cities.

Which station you change at will depend on timings of connections, but ultimately it shouldn’t make much of a difference as the train you will arrive in Wurzburg on will have passed through all 3 stations en-route.

If it was me I would get the train (end to end) from Amsterdam to Frankfurt and then just take any (relatively) local train between Frankfurt and Wurzburg.  There looks to be 1 to 2 an hour.

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    • zagmund
    • Engin-ius
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    • April 19, 2025

    Assuming the reservation you are talking about is from Amsterdam to Wurzburg . . . you should be able to change at Dusseldorf, Cologne or Frankfurt as the routes share tracks between these cities.

    Which station you change at will depend on timings of connections, but ultimately it shouldn’t make much of a difference as the train you will arrive in Wurzburg on will have passed through all 3 stations en-route.

    If it was me I would get the train (end to end) from Amsterdam to Frankfurt and then just take any (relatively) local train between Frankfurt and Wurzburg.  There looks to be 1 to 2 an hour.

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    • rvdborgt
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    • April 19, 2025

    If I reserve on the rail planner, will I truly have reserved seats on the train to Düsseldorf?

    You can't book anything in the rail planner app.

    You can book seats on bahn.com (€5.20 per journey or €6.50 in 1st class with seat selection) or on tickets.oebb.at (€3 per train, no seat selection).

    Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
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    • Barbara Reed
    • Right on track
    • April 20, 2025

    You don't have to use the connections in the rail planner if they don't suit you. I will often pad connections as I don't move very fast, so I will take a later connection to give me a margin. As to where, I find it helpful to look at a rail map. Sometimes going to somewhere that is sure to have a place to eat with a connection at an appropriate time makes the day a lot easier. 

    The map provided by interrail is OK, but if you want to get a rail atlas it will be easier to see. Paper or .pdf will work. You could go Uber geek and get a proper timetable as well, but that might be a bit ott. 

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    • MicheleS2025
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    • Rail rookie
    • April 21, 2025

    Thank you! That was so helpful. 

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