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Rail route mapping

  • 26-11-2013 11:21pm
    #1
    zagmund
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭


    <travel nerd alert>
    I recently found a list of the cities I visited on an interrail back when I were a lad and the internet consisted of a collection of string and some tin cans.

    The internet has come on in leaps and bounds and offers great mapping solutions and with my travel nerd hat on I was thinking of mapping out the route but I can't quite find what I'm looking for. I can certainly do a pin board sort of map with straight lines between the cities, but as I discovered here the route isn't quite a straight line.

    Does anyone know of any online railway maps that handle multiple routes or will I have to go with the my old Thomas Cook Continental Timetable (for routings & distances), the old rail map of Europe that USIT used to supply, some markers and a pencil & paper?

    I know bahn.de will map out individual routes, but I think a trip taking in France, Spain, Italy, Greece, all the bits in the middle, Denmark, Sweden & Norway might tax it just a little too much. Of course Europe was much smaller then - the entire bit to the East was just a grey blob marked USSR.

    z


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  • #2
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Looks like fun ;)

    Maybe Rome2Rio might suit:
    http://www.rome2rio.com/s/Copenhagen/Amsterdam

    Also you could look into the fares a bit, e.g. if you buy a ticket from Osnabruck to Copenhagen that ticket will be valid for 30 days (since the end destination is outside Germany) and you can stop anywhere you like on the route to Copenhagen for a few days.

    Also I think the ticket from Amsterdam to Osnabruck is also valid for 30 days since it finishes in Germany. (Certainly is from Eindhoven to Dusseldorf anyway)

    You just have to make sure you travel in one direction only (i.e. not go backwards)

    You can buy your ticket on the Dutch side, maybe compare it to DB with www.nshispeed.nl

    EDIT: More info here:

    http://weberberg.de/billiger-bahn-fahren.html

    Use Chrome + Google Translate :)


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