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Train fares and tariffs / Russia to North Korea tickets
« on: May 09, 2013, 07:15:22 pm »
Dear All,
I am posting to ask for some help in buying tickets for the North Korean sleeping car that is attached to Trans-Siberian service 002 twice a month.
The fares and associated details for this service are listed here [http://pass.rzd.ru/static/public/pass?STRUCTURE_ID=5144& - for those whose Russian is not up to scratch just pop it into Google Translate
], but I am having real trouble purchasing tickets.
I first contacted DB in the UK who can access and sell tickets across most of Europe. They were able to find both Khabarovsk and Tumangan in their system but it seems they could not find journey timings for non-mainline services (they were able to find these for the Trans-Siberian and Moscow to St Petersburg for example) or perhaps could not find journey timings for international services?
Anyway I also contacted Real Russia a Russian travel agency specialising in rail tickets. These guys had never sold such a ticket and were not sure they existed. I pointed them in the direction of the RZD website and sent over images of tickets that had been issued in the past (http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/6367/20080917_Habarovsk_Pyongyang_3.jpg) (http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/6716/20080917_Habarovsk_Pyongyang_2.jpg), but they are still struggling.
It seems the tickets in the images above were issued by MZHA (Moscow Railway Agency - www.mza.ru) but in attempting to contact them to enquire of these tickets there was complete communication breakdown with me speaking no Russian and them no English.
If anyone could help me in purchasing these it would be so appreciated - it really has been an up hill struggle so far!
I am posting to ask for some help in buying tickets for the North Korean sleeping car that is attached to Trans-Siberian service 002 twice a month.
The fares and associated details for this service are listed here [http://pass.rzd.ru/static/public/pass?STRUCTURE_ID=5144& - for those whose Russian is not up to scratch just pop it into Google Translate
], but I am having real trouble purchasing tickets.I first contacted DB in the UK who can access and sell tickets across most of Europe. They were able to find both Khabarovsk and Tumangan in their system but it seems they could not find journey timings for non-mainline services (they were able to find these for the Trans-Siberian and Moscow to St Petersburg for example) or perhaps could not find journey timings for international services?
Anyway I also contacted Real Russia a Russian travel agency specialising in rail tickets. These guys had never sold such a ticket and were not sure they existed. I pointed them in the direction of the RZD website and sent over images of tickets that had been issued in the past (http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/6367/20080917_Habarovsk_Pyongyang_3.jpg) (http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/6716/20080917_Habarovsk_Pyongyang_2.jpg), but they are still struggling.
It seems the tickets in the images above were issued by MZHA (Moscow Railway Agency - www.mza.ru) but in attempting to contact them to enquire of these tickets there was complete communication breakdown with me speaking no Russian and them no English.
If anyone could help me in purchasing these it would be so appreciated - it really has been an up hill struggle so far!