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Operator: |
Remarks: |
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International |
Eurostar,
www.eurostar.com |
London
to Paris & Brussels by high speed train. Times,
fares & online booking. Also offers online
booking from London to major cities in France, Amsterdam, Basel & Cologne.
Tickets sent to any UK address or can be collected in
London, Paris or Brussels. Also see the London to
Paris by Eurostar page. |
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Eurostar (formerly
Thalys),
www.eurostar.com |
Paris to Brussels & Amsterdam /
Cologne by high speed train. See the
Eurostar (formerly Thalys) page on this site. |
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TGV-Lyria, www.tgv-lyria.com |
Paris to Switzerland by TGV
high-speed train. See the TGV-Lyria
page. |
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Stena Line Rail & Sail London
to Amsterdam |
London to
Amsterdam combined train+ferry service via
Harwich-Hoek van Holland. Times,
fares and online booking.
See the
Stena Line London to
Amsterdam Rail & Sail page. |
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Venice Simplon Orient Express,
www.belmond.com/venice-simplon-orient-express |
The VSOE
runs London-Paris-Venice weekly March-November with restored British Pullmans and
Wagons-Lits sleeping-cars. Times, fares & online
booking. Also see the Venice
Simplon Express page on this site. |
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Berlin Night Express
www.snalltaget.se |
Swedish
sleeper train overnight from Berlin to Malm� with
connections to Copenhagen and Stockholm. |
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Albania |
HSH, http://hsh.com.al |
For train times, see the train
travel in Albania page. |
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Andorra |
|
No train
service. Buses
www.andorrabus.com &
www.autocarsnadal.com. |
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Austria |
�BB,
www.oebb.at |
Austrian
Federal Railways. Times, fares & online
booking of train in & from Austria. |
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Westbahn,
www.westbahn.at |
Private open-access operator Westbahn
competes with �BB between Salzburg & Vienna. |
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Belarus |
BCh,
www.rw.by |
Belarus
State Railways. |
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Belgium |
SNCB,
www.belgiantrain.be |
Train times
& fares
for Belgian domestic trains. For international
trains to & from Belgium see
www.b-europe.com. |
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Bosnia |
�FBH (Zeljeznice Bosne i Hercegovine),
www.zfbh.ba.
�RS, https://zrs-rs.com. |
�RS operates in Republika Srpska, �FBH in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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Bulgaria |
BDZ,
www.bdz.bg |
Bulgarian
State Railways. |
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Croatia |
HZ,
ww.hzpp.hr |
Croatian
National Railways. |
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Czech
Republic |
CD,
www.cd.cz |
Czech
Railways. Online ticket sales at
www.cd.cz/eshop.
There's now also a
private operator on the Prague-Ostrava route,
www.regiojet.cz. |
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Denmark |
DSB,
www.dsb.dk |
Danish
State Railways. Times, fares & online booking
for trains within Denmark. For trains to Malmo & Gothenburg see
www.oresundstag.se.
For trains to Stockholm see www.sj.se. |
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Estonia |
Elron (domestic trains),
www.elron.ee |
Elron, formerly Edelrautee, runs
Estonian domestic trains. |
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GoRail (international trains),
www.gorail.ee |
GoRail (formerly EVR Ekspress) run
sleeper trains between Tallinn and Moscow. |
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Finland |
VR,
www.vr.fi |
Finnish
State Railways. Times, fares & online booking
for trains within Finland. |
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France |
SNCF,
www.sncf-connect.com |
Train
times, fares & online booking for journeys in France
and from France to neighbouring countries. You can also book French trains
at
(anyone) at
www.raileurope.com
or www.thetrainline.com.
For
advice on which website to use to book French trains see here.
For Corscia see
http://cf-corse.fr |
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RATP,
www.ratp.fr
(Paris M�tro) |
Visit www.ratp.fr
and select 'plans' for maps of the Paris M�tro and
bus routes. |
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Chemins de Fer de la Corse,
cf-corse.corsica. |
Rail
services on Corsica.
Also see
Chemins de Fer de la Corse &
www.corsicabus.org. |
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Chemins de Fer de Provence,
www.trainprovence.com |
Nice-Digne
scenic local trains. |
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Georgia |
www.railway.ge |
Georgian
Railways. |
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Germany |
DB,
int.bahn.de |
See
int.bahn.de for the excellent rail
timetable providing train times across Europe, also
German rail fares & online booking. The
'English' button is at upper right. |
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Flixtrain, www.flixtrain.com
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Private operator Flixtrain is now competing
with DB on the Cologne-Bremen-Hamburg & Berlin-Stuttgart routes. |
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Greece |
Hellenic Train
www.hellenictrain.gr (formerly TrainOSE until 2022) |
For train
times & fares in Greece, and online booking (in
Greek only, but try using Google Chrome with
automatic translation). For Greek island
ferries, see
www.ferriesingreece.com. |
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Hungary |
MAV,
www.mav-start.hu |
Hungarian
State Railways.
Budapest
metro: bkk.hu.
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Ireland |
Irish
Rail,
www.irishrail.ie |
Irish
train times, fares & information, plus online
booking. |
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Italy |
Trenitalia,
www.trenitalia.com. |
Train
times, fares & online booking for train travel in
Italy and out of Italy to neighbouring countries.
See the train travel
in Italy page. You can also book Italian trains at
www.italiarail.com. |
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Italo,
www.italotreno.it. |
Italo's high-speed trains compete
with Trenitalia's on the Milan-Florence-Rome-Naples & Venice-Florence-Rome
corridors.
See the Italo high-speed train page on this site. |
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Circumvesuviana Railway,
www.eavsrl.it |
Times
& fares for the local electric railway linking Naples, Pompeii
& Sorrento. |
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Kosovo |
Kosovo Railway,
www.trainkos.com |
Kosovo
railways: Internal trains plus Skopje-Pri�tina
service. Most info is only available in the local language version of
their site. |
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Latvia |
Vivi, vivi.lv |
Latvian
Railways. Passenger company rebranded Vivi in 2023. |
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Lithuania |
LTG Link, ltglink.lt |
Lithuanian
Railways. |
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Luxembourg |
CFL,
www.cfl.lu |
Luxembourg
National Railways. |
|
Moldova |
ZDM/CFM, www.railway.md |
Moldovan
State Railways. |
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Montenegro |
ZPCG,
www.zcg-prevoz.me |
Montenegro Railways. |
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Netherlands |
NS,
www.ns.nl |
Netherlands
Railways: Dutch train times & fares. The
site for international trains from the
Netherlands is www.nsinternational.com. |
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North Macedonia |
MZ, mzt.mk |
North Macedonian
State Railways. |
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Norway |
www.vy.no
www.sj.no
go-aheadnordic.no
Check times & buy tickets for all
routes & operators at entur.no. |
Norway's train services have been outsourced to 3 private companies:
www.vy.no (rebranded from NSB
Norwegian State Railways in 2019), routes include Oslo-Bergen, Oslo-Gothenburg,
Oslo-Lillehammer-Dombas.
www.sj.no (a Norwegian
subsidiary of Swedish Railways), routes include Oslo-Trondheim-Bodo.
go-aheadnordic.no,
routes include Oslo-Kristiansand-Stavanger. |
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Poland |
PKP Intercity, www.intercity.pl |
Polish
State Railways. For mainline and international
trains, see
www.intercity.pl. |
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Portugal |
CP,
www.cp.pt |
Portuguese
National Railways: Times, fares & online
booking within Portugal. |
|
Romania |
CFR,
www.cfrcalatori.ro |
Romanian
State Railways. |
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Russia |
RZD,
www.rzd.ru |
To book
trains within Russia, including the
Trans-Siberian Railway, try www.realrussia.co.uk, UK agency
Intourist on 020 8538 8600, on 020 8566 8846 or
Russian agencies
Svezhy
Veter or WaytoRussia.
Luxury private train Moscow-St Petersburg:
www.grandexpress.ru (in Russian only). |
|
Serbia |
ZS
& ZCG,
www.serbianrailways.com |
Serbian
National Railways. |
|
Slovakia |
ZSR,
www.zssk.sk |
Slovakian
National Railways. |
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Slovenia |
SZ,
potniski.sz.si |
Slovenia
National Railways. |
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Spain |
RENFE,
www.renfe.com |
Spanish National Railways.
Train times, fares and online booking for trains within Spain,
see the train travel in Spain
page. You can also buy Spanish train tickets at
www.thetrainline.com
or www.raileurope.com. |
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FEVE,
www.renfe.com |
Former FEVE metre-gauge routes in
Northern Spain
Bilbao-Santander-Oviedo-Ferrol have been taken over by Renfe. Information
can now be found on
www.renfe.com under Cercanias (suburban trains), look for Cercanias-AM,
which stands for Ancho Metrico or metre gauge lines. |
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Euskotren,
www.euskotren.eus |
Local
trains Hendaye-Irun-San Sebastian-Bilbao. |
|
Sweden |
SJ,
www.sj.se |
Swedish
State Railways, running most long distance trains in
Sweden. You can check Swedish train
times for all train operators (including some privatised
ones) at
www.resplus.se. You can book Swedish trains
online at
www.sj.se or
www.snalltaget.se. |
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�resund link trains,
www.oresundstag.se |
Local trains linking Copenhagen,
Malm� & Gothenburg. |
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Switzerland |
SBB,
www.sbb.ch |
Swiss
Federal Railways. Train times and fares
& online tickets for train
travel in Switzerland. |
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Rh�tische Bahn, www.rhb.ch |
Operator
of the famous Bernina Express Chur-Tirano and one of
the operators
of the famous Glacier Express Zermatt-Brig-St
Moritz. There's a specific Glacier Express website,
www.glacierexpress.ch. |
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BLS, www.bls.ch |
Bern -
L�tschberg - Simplon Railway (Bern-Brig) |
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Jungfrau Bahn,
www.jungfrau.ch |
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Turkey |
TCDD,
ebilet.tcddtasimacilik.gov.tr |
Turkish train times,
fares & online booking of trains within Turkey.
See Turkey page for
instructions. |
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Ukraine |
UZ,
www.uz.gov.ua |
For Ukrainian train times, fares &
booking. |
|
UK |
National
Rail Enquiries,
www.nationalrail.co.uk |
The
official site for UK train information, with train
times, fares, and links to every UK train operator.
Also see the train
travel in the UK page. |
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UK
(Northern Ireland) |
Northern
Ireland Railways,
www.translink.co.uk/Services/NI-Railways |
Online
journey planner for both buses and trains within
Northern Ireland. |
European
train operators, A-Z by country