Bosnia-Herzegovina (ZFBH/ZRS)

Country info: Bosnia-Hercegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina)

Rail companies: ŽFBH (Željeznice Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine)

ZRS (Željeznice Republike Srpske)

Bosnia i Hercegovina Rail Network Map

Currency: 1 euro = app. 1.95 Bosnia and Herzegovina Convertible Marka (BAM)

Train travel in Bosnia and Herzegovina: train types, tickets, fares, discounts & other useful info

National Train Service:

Train types in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Local (lokalni) & Express (brzi) & Business (poslovni) trains

Local: regional train service all over BiH, no seat reservation required. Lokalni trains have 4 digit number (starting with 2*** for ZFBH & 6*** for ZRS)

Express : long-distance domestic & international service (connecting BiH with Zagreb & Ploce). Brzi trains have 3-digit number (starting with 3** or 7**), special tariff supplement (1,10 BAM) applies for domestic journeys, no seat reservation required
Business: new modern EMU trains, special tariff supplement (5 BAM) applies, seat reservation (3 BAM) compulsory

Validity of Trains Tickets in BiH: one way tickets for journeys <100km are valid for one day, journeys between 101 and 400 km - 2 days, journeys >401km - 4 days, while return tickets are valid for one day for trips <50km, 2 days - for journeys >51 & <100km and 6 days for journeys >101km

Discounts, special offers & ways to save money for passengers traveling by train in Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZFBH/ZRS):

Passengers buying return tickets for trips within ZRS/ZFBH or between ZRS & ZFBH receive 20% discount from the standard ticket fare (e.g. Sarajevo to Mostar one-way ticket is 11 BAM, while return will cost 17,60 BAM or Sarajevo to Banja Luka for 32,90 BAM one-way or 52,50 BAM return)
ZFBH & ZRS provides 30% ticket discount for students holding ISIC/ITIC cards
Passengers planning trips to more than one destination in BiH (e.g. a day trip with couple stops) can take advantage of the fact that ZFBH & ZRS allow one stopover (with ZFBH only for tickets >100km) for any domestic trips done with one-way ticket or two stopovers with any return ticket (one stopover during outward & one during return trip). It means that passenger having ticket from destination A to destination C can travel with stopover in destination B, thus instead of two separate tickets purchase one through ticket and, as result, save some money due to regressive nature of ZRS/ZFBH domestic tariff.

International Train Service:

a) Regular discounts

20% discount for any return ticket between BiH to Serbia, Croatia or Slovenia
SET tariff (valid for rail journeys between the members of South-East Europe Railways Group (SERG), which are the railway companies of Albania, Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro & Republika Srpska (ZRS)
60% discount on return tickets between ZRS (Republike Srpska) and MAV (Hungary)

b) Special offers (SparSchiene)

Munich Special (via Croatia, Slovenia, Austria): from Sarajevo to Munich return 107 euro, from Banja Luka to Munich return (105,20 euro), also available from Mostar, Tuzla, Zenica, Bihac
Beograd Specijal: from Doboj to Belgrade (11,3 euro one-way or 21 euro return), from Sarajevo to Belgrade (16,8 euro one-way or 31 euro return)

c) CityStars

BiH - Germany (via Croatia, Slovenia, Austria): from ZRS (Doboj, Banja Luka etc.) to any destination in Germany 206,20 euro (one passenger, 2^nd class) without use of ICE trains or 228,20 euro with ICE trains, from ZFBH (Sarajevo, Mostar etc.) to any destination in Germany 220,20 (one passenger, 2^nd class) without use of ICE trains or 242,20 euro with ICE trains (second, third, fourth & fifth passengers pay 50% of first passenger fare)

How to Buy Train Tickets in Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Currently it is not possible to purchase national (domestic) or international tickets online directly from ZFBH or ZRS websites, thus potential passengers will have to visit ticket counter

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