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Finally: Vienna - Lviv/Kyiv and v.v. bookable online, tickets need to be picked up in Austria before travelling. Certain dates already sold out. The wrong info regading included breakfast (in fact there is no breakfast available) as well as the time-zone bug (actual timings in UA are one hour...

Yes, I'm that Tumangan-guy... thanks for the mail, I will reply soon. If you plan to use the Vienna-Kyiv sleeper you should book some time in advance, especially if you want a private compartment (Single). During the last few weeks on the day of departure empty compartments were available only...

RZD switched to "global prices" for tickets sold by European railways a few years ago (in 2015, I think). This concerns domestic trains inside Russia as well as the few remaining international trains to/from Europe. The prices if bought in Europe are more or less the same as in Russia, also the...

Online booking is not (yet) possible, you might book via ÖBB callcenter +43 5 1717. It's recommended to book in advance especially if you want a private compartment, as the sleeper is often sold out.

Passengers stay on board during the bogie change procedure (otherwise the bogie changing process wouldn't enable the comfort of a direct service, passengers could change to another waggon as well). The procedure takes about 1 hour. Not only the bogies are changed, also the couplers are changed...

Vienna - Berlin via Bohumin - Wroclaw is just 6 km longer than via Brno - Ceska Trebova - Praha. The southbound timetable is determined by the train Prague - Breclav - Berlin, which shall convey coaches from Berlin+Warsaw to Budapest. Routes of direct Vienna - Berlin trains in the past: Wien -...

ICE 3 and ICE 1 are not certified for running in Austria. Only ICE-T.

Pics from a recent trip Kiev - Vienna last week: At Kiev station: Leaving Kiev: My compartment: On the way: Joining the main line from Zdolbuniv to Lviv coming from the Zdolbuniv bypassing curve: Brody station: Arriving at Lviv: Lviv station - the sleeping car to...

With the cancellation of the "Metropol"-night train (Budapes/Vienna - Berlin) by MAV (Hungarian Railways, they had the commercial responisbility for the train on the German section) in dec 2017 Vienna lost it's last direct train service to Berlin. The direct daytime service via Prague was...

Also the lounges at other ÖBB stations (besides Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck) might be used, see http://www.oebb.at/en/leistungen-und-services/am-bahnhof/oebb-lounge Lounge access applies to holders of any sleeping car ticket (including those e.g. to Kiev or Bucharest).

This, however, has nothing to do with CIWL (Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits), it's just French for "sleeping car". More interesting is, IMO, that it's still written just in Russian, German, French and Italian, but not in Ukranian :-)

In dec 2017 a direct sleeping car was introduced on the route Kyiv - Lviv - Budapest - Vienna. One Ukrainian sleeping car is running daily on this route and conveyed by EC-train 140-147 between Zahony (Hungarian border station to Ukraine) and Wien and v.v.. Timetable: Vienna 16.42 - Budapest...

This is now part 3 of the trip report. The previous parts can be found here: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=93644 http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=93660 The first meters in North Korea: Welcome to North Korea: The station Sinuiju was under renovation: Border...

Yes, we are the same... I wrote about that already in the 1st part of this report, maybe you haven't found this one: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=93644 Anyway, thanks to all for the feedback! --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I just added a preview of photos to...

Part 1 is at http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=93644 Thu 2013-09-19 Suburban train from my flat in the 20th district to Vienna-Schwechat airport: After checkin for my LOT-flight to Warszawa my friend Oliver (who booked a flight from Zurich via Warszawa to Beijing, we planned to...

Hello to all UK- and international railfans! In september 2013 I had the great opportunity to join the first DPRK railway tour organized by "Juche Travel Services". This London-based DPRK-travel agency had already organized some special tours for aviation enthusiasts in the past, now it was...

Hi, the Moscow-Pyongyang sleeping car still runs twice monthly (leaving Moscow 11th and 25th of each month). The total distance is 10267 km. Here is the timetable (taken from...

Hi, thanks to 'thaitransit' for posting the links to my travelogue here! Just two corrections: - we were not the 1st non-locals who travelled this route, as it was officially open to tourist till the mid-90ies. It was not used often, but I know of at least 3 other travellers, who did this...