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Austrian trains

  • 17-07-2017 11:19PM
    #1
    Sloopys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭


    I'm going on holiday to Austria soon. Can anyone give me some recommendations on trains in Austria and any good pictures?


Comments

  • #2
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    recommendations for what?

    virtually all rail services are ran by the Öbb , who have swish premium intercity service with the stupidly named railjet running from Zurich and Munich to Vienna and onto Budapest, then normal intercity/ euro city trains, and local trains.
    The odd ICE train runs from Vienna via Passau onto Frankfurt and Cologne


  • #3
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    The Railjet is a really nice train though, been on them in both Czech Republic and Hungary.


  • #4
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    devnull wrote: »
    The Railjet is a really nice train though, been on them in both Czech Republic and Hungary.
    aha, I see they are indeed now on the Prague-Vienna-Graz route too
    https://www.seat61.com/railjet.htm


  • #5
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    The České dráhy trains that run from Prague have slightly different interior set-up to the ones operated Öbb but it's not much different, just some slight config changes with regards to space used by each class and different colour scheme.

    They're good examples of modern loco hauled trains if you asked me.


  • #6
    Sloopys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭Sloopys


    Thanks for the great ideas lads. What's the situation regarding taking bikes on the trains there and are any issues regarding helmets etc?


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  • #7
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    See here:
    http://martin749000.deviantart.com/art/CD-Railjet-space-for-bicycles-462641856

    7 Spaces per coach on CD Railjet, 5 on OBB


  • #8
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,651 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    They also have the best sounding trains :D
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SDYdHzT7Qw
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SDYdHzT7Qw


  • #9
    stop animal cruelty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭stop animal cruelty


    If you end up in Budapest, the central train station is one of the amazing buildings Iv seen in Europe....
    Plus if you buy a train ticket at the station.....you must validate....theres no date or time on them unlike ours here so whenever you hop on validate it. The inspectors do check quiet regulary and dont pity you if you dont know all this, trust me I know!!


  • #10
    stop animal cruelty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭stop animal cruelty


    Btw what do you mean by pictures of trains? Why do you need one?


  • #11
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,605 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    They also have the best sounding trains
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SDYdHzT7Qw
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SDYdHzT7Qw

    completely agree. a very distinctive sound as well.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



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