Recent content by Ian99

The Eurostar buffet was advertising that they had them last week but on asking, I was told that they no longer sold them.

sure and the nuance under discussion is that if a train goes from A to B to C and all the odd number seats are taken from A to B and all the even number seats from B to C, then there will be no availability from A to C despite the train only ever being 50% full...

It must be an issue for long journeys where any company insists on pre-booked tickets only. They lose sales from someone who would be happy to move seats part way through a long journey.

Just for general information, I paid €6.85 for Madrid to Irun plus €4 each for Merida to Puertollano and for Puertollano to Madrid.

So does that suggest that, when I was at Irun in the morning, and overnight a ticket had become available for Madrid to Merida, that there should have been an Interrail seat reservation available too? (I should have asked at the ticket office but was keen to grab the ticket when I could, even at...

By way of an update: I turned up at Irun station the evening before I wanted to head towards Portugal - I already had a reservation for the next morning to Madrid but wanted to explore the option of getting to Vigo via Segovia etc. (where my reserved train would stop). I was told that the...

I had 3 left over from about 5 years ago - one wouldn't work in the machine at Paris Nord, one did work, one remains un-tested... There was a manual ticket check at Montparnasse using little hand machines capable of checking validity of the paper ticket.

Thanks for all your good work! I note that your link to the Spanish part of your guide includes a line saying, (that reservations can be booked), "At an SNCF (French railways) ticket office!" Is that still correct?

I'll let you know how I get on. Your later route works I think on there being different schedules on different days of the week to allow a later departure from San Sebastian according to Seat61.

RENFE recognises Segovia - Ourense - Santiago and also Ourense - Santiago - Vigo leg as connecting routes. But not the 2 combined: Segovia - Ourense - Santiago - Vigo ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅❎❎❎ Segovia - Ourense - Santiago - Vigo ❎❎❎❎ ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ Of course 4 trains means twice as many...

Thanks so much for the above thoughts. The idea of going via Guarda - or even down the Douro - are really great ones and I think I'll explore those for the return journey as I'm keen to get to Pinhal Novo late afternoon which I can best do I think with a morning start in Vigo I've therefore...

Just for the possible assistance of anyone else reading this thread - the RailEurope online booking seems to work well with no booking fees, and with a refund on an unwanted reservation coming back to my account within seconds. However obviously there will be situations where the ability to...

I went to the station at Giulianova last year with the intention of booking an interrail reservation for departure towards Bari 20 minutes later. However the booking office was closed. I went online to order through OBB but their website said it was too late for that train - this was maybe 15...

I need to cross from Paris Nord to Paris Montparnasse - I've some old paper tickets which I see I paid 1.49 Euros for. Are they still valid please?

I need to go from Irun (or possibly San Sebastian) on the morning of Tuesday 26 to arrive in Pinhal Novo some time on Wednesday afternoon. The 2 routes that are just by train are: 1) Irun to Madrid, then onto Merida or Badajoz to overnight before carrying on to Entrocamento, Lisbon and then...