Austrian Railways Bashny.Net

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1. The journey begins with the purchase of a ticket, it can be done via the Internet, in the machine at the station or in the same place at the box office. And the whole system is significantly different from ours:

Firstly, the price of the tickets is not fixed, and it is necessary to know how to fly. Otherwise, you can buy a 60 euro train ticket Vienna-Innsbruck (476 km away), and it is possible for 29 to leave Vienna to Zurich (772 km away).

Secondly, the purchase of two or more tickets, the price will be lower than when buying one. For example, two tickets to Vienna-Innsbruck in the second class, we bought for 100 euros, while the price of one - 60.

Third, do not buy tickets on a particular train, and the direction. That is, buying a ticket, for example, on the 25th of Linz, in this day, you can sit on any train to the western direction and stop at the desired station.

Although entrance tickets and do not check (the conductor seems to one on the entire train) to ride without them you can not even try. Controllers come almost after each stop, with different, and if they catch - avoid a penalty in the ten- or twenty-fold of the ticket price will not succeed. If you refuse to pay - call the police. With an average ticket price of 30-50 euros, you can easily imagine the amount.

Second-class compartment looks for 6 people in the case. The first class is characterized by a large open space in the compartment and reduced to 4 the number of passengers.

2. However, people in trains and half not many coupes are usually free. Search the whole place had once reason the eyeballs clogged by train from Zurich to Vienna, all other trains mostly run half-empty. That aircraft interior with seating in passenger compartment carriages not much more:

3. Each second-class compartment has air conditioning, 2 sockets 230 V, lighting, ... handle the volume of announcements. What is interesting is not the station announces the driver and the conductor for this purpose at the end of our carriage was like a telephone.

4. Table conveniently decomposed and removed at uselessness under the window. Red paper - this schedule, it is placed in each compartment before each flight.

5. In all coupe glass doors:

6. What is interesting, the Austrians got into the compartment where someone has rides, smile, say hello, wish you a pleasant trip, and then all the way to sit in silence, it is making no attempt to talk to the neighbors in the compartment, as is the case with us. But while porters at the station, police station just walking on people - happily waving their hand if they notice that someone is looking out the train window

The restaurant car is better not to go, because prices, to put it mildly, not happy - a bottle of beer costs 3-5 euros, with its price in the supermarket 60 cents. If you go for a long time, the best way to buy everything in advance:

9. But let us return to the trains. They are in Austria many and different, from the very nondescript two-story up. These trains, called CityShuttle long distances do not go and throughout Europe are used as a commuter. I do not know how in the Austrian city shuttle, but those used in Switzerland have special carriages for passengers with children, children's playground.

10. In the province of city-shuttle simpler:

11. The bulk of the Austrian train looks like. This high-speed trains RailJet, speeds up to 200 km / h:

12. And here is to compare German InterCityExpress train station at the Vienna Westbahnhof western direction:

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14. Due to the incredible popularity of bicycles in Europe, trains have a special car for the "passengers with bicycles»:

15. Another interesting fact: the door can not be opened in the trains themselves (ie, stops the driver they do not open), the system is used throughout the public transport in Austria. To exit or to go you have to press the button near the door.

Provincial station generally of little interest, and similar to each other: