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Czech Railways Ticket Machines
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The only ticket machines I've seen are on a handful of trains - and are very basic and only in Czech (I think).
The main ticket office at Prague Main Station (Praha hl.n.) has an "International and Other Tickets" section, with a number of counters. All the staff on those desks speak English.
Ceske Drahy do have a mobile app called "Muj vlak", which does English and is easy to use. You can use it to buy tickets online. It produces one of those square barcodes, which train guards can scan with their ticket machines to check validity. According to a guard on a recent journey, it can use NFC functionality, should your phone have it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.cd.mujvlak.an&hl=en_GB
The main ticket office at Prague Main Station (Praha hl.n.) has an "International and Other Tickets" section, with a number of counters. All the staff on those desks speak English.
Ceske Drahy do have a mobile app called "Muj vlak", which does English and is easy to use. You can use it to buy tickets online. It produces one of those square barcodes, which train guards can scan with their ticket machines to check validity. According to a guard on a recent journey, it can use NFC functionality, should your phone have it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.cd.mujvlak.an&hl=en_GB
Never seen a rail ticket machine in CZ or SK - policy seems strongly in favour of employing humans, though increasing numbers of stations are shown in the timetable as unstaffed.
Paper and pen (or electronic equivalent) works well, I find, if there is no international counter.
OT: I was particularly impressed by the conductor on a cross country train who used their smartphone to translate the message that I was about to have to use a RRB.
Paper and pen (or electronic equivalent) works well, I find, if there is no international counter.
OT: I was particularly impressed by the conductor on a cross country train who used their smartphone to translate the message that I was about to have to use a RRB.
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