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mcilloni
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Posted 7 years ago

Hello everyone,
These days I was trying to book couchettes on the CNL 484 Lupus from Bologna Centrale to München Hauptbahnhof from Trenitalia for the date 12 August 2016.
Trenitalia's website quickly informed me that the carrier of the train (Deutsche Bahn) did not allow the booking of the train, so I went directly to bahn.com and in fact train informations were availiable only until July. While there, I also noticed a strange warning sign next to the August trains, saying This train is temporarily not bookable due to constraction works.. I assume this means that there are construction works.

Will the train be bookable next month, ie, May? Or there will be no certainty until the very end of the availability of tickets?

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Flo
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replied 7 years ago

Hi!

I looked on [u]http://bauarbeiten.bahn.de/[/u] and [u]http://fahrplan.oebb.at/bin/help.exe/dn?tpl=showmap_external[/u] and did not find any information regarding construction works during that time.
I can only advise to check if booking is open on [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] every few days or so.

PS: Please use our affiliate link to DB (Deutsche Bahn): [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] - thank you! :)


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mcilloni
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replied 7 years ago

Thank you Flo for your answer! I really hope tickets will appear next month, so that I can complete planning my trip to Munich. :D

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Flo
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replied 7 years ago

Just have a look every few days, I am sure you will get your tickets in time :)

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anonymous
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replied 7 years ago

If I look for this connection today, I get the hint:

CNL 485: Bologna Centrale->Roma Termini: Construction work. This train will arrive 60 minutes late.

So maybe the contruction works are in Italy which is why they're not mentioned on bauarbeiten.bahn.de and the ÖBB counterpart.



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mcilloni
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replied 7 years ago

I really hope that's the case. I was just a bit confused by the This train is temporarily not bookable.
Hopefully the next month the train will be fully bookable :)

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mcilloni
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replied 7 years ago

Hello everyone,
I've kept the trains watched during the last few weeks, and now the trains with the warning signs (the ones after July 29th) have started to become bookable. In particular, now the 29th of July one is bookable, but still has a warning sign, only has Flexpreis offerts and it's not available from Trenitalia (AFAIK Trenitalia has a small amount of reduced price tickets for international trains, so it may be desiderable to book these through them) - because Trenitalia keeps saying that the train is not bookable.

And there is no warning or comunication about the reasons of all of these nowhere!
What can I do?

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mcilloni
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replied 7 years ago

For anybody interested, I wrote to DB's customer service. Their response has been that the CNL 484 will not circulate daily, and that DB still doesn't know when it will actually circulate. I hope that EC 84 will not be disturbed by the same issues! :|