What types of foreign tickets are there?

Three types of ticket can be encountered in the European rail ticket booking system. Regardless of the type of international ticket, on PolishTrains you can check before purchasing whether the booking can be exchanged online.

Reserved ticket

This is a ticket valid for travel on a particular route on a particular day. Such a ticket always includes the train number, departure time, carriage number and seat. Such a ticket cannot be used to travel on another train - even on the same route. Reserved tickets are sent to the customer electronically as a single document or as two documents. One document is valid for trains such as the TGV or Eurostar, for example.

Open ticket

This is a ticket that is purchased for a particular route, but without specifying the departure time of the train. The passenger can choose any train on the route, provided that no reservation is required on that train. Such a ticket does not include a seat number - the traveller chooses his or her own seat in the booking class purchased.

Mixed tickets

It is possible that a traveller may have to use two or even three types of ticket on a given route. For example, when travelling from Lyon to London, on the Lyon-Paris route, the passenger will need to use a TOD ticket for the TGV and from Paris to London a printed e-ticket for the Eurostar train.