Timeline for Booking for intra-EU trains
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| Nov 14, 2019 at 19:46 | comment | added | Relaxed | @KristvanBesien It does make a lot of sense... yet it's not completely true either in practice! I experience a ticket check almost every time on Thalys and French train guards have to check tickets at least once during a trip. | |
| Nov 14, 2019 at 12:00 | comment | added | Krist van Besien | When you are running a service with compulsory reservation ticket control is easier. On Thalys often tickets aren't even checked. if the number of people on board equals the number of tickets sold for that train then everyone on board has paid... DB sells most tickets without reservations, thus is more exposed to the risk of people copying tickets... Hence they ask for an ID (and so do for example the SBB) | |
| Nov 13, 2019 at 23:22 | comment | added | Relaxed | In my experience, only the German railway seems specific about the type of ID you should carry and enforcing these provisions at all. Travelling regularly with e-tickets on Thalys or French trains, I have never ever have to show ID. Never. I have also never seen a train guard ask anyone for ID (and only very rarely seen the police do it). | |
| Nov 13, 2019 at 15:44 | vote | accept | abdul | ||
| Nov 13, 2019 at 15:33 | history | answered | Krist van Besien | CC BY-SA 4.0 |