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== | ==Ticketing== | ||
Information from a trip report | |||
Tickets can be bought at stations, either at a booking office window or at ticket machines. In all cases you need to provide a passport number, although in reality there is no proper ID check as such, the Provodnitsa on each coach checking your details off on their list before you board. Note if you do travel in platskartny the guard inspects tickets and can issue tickets. | |||
As you'd expect, trains can and do sell out in advance, especially at busy times. Apparently there is a policy that even if the trains are fully booked, the railway won't leave anybody behind specifically because the extremes of weather could prove fatal if they did do so. | |||
A company called Tapatrip is often recommended, but there have been problems using the mobile app, which would not open the payment window for foreign card payments. Using a laptop did work. | |||
Opening for bookings may be at short notice if a timetable change is imminent. | |||
The official Mongolian Railway website is eticket.ubtz.mn but does not work for foreign IP addresses. Downloading and installing an app called Urban VPN allows a Mongolian VPN to be used and with this running on a mobile it is possible to register and purchase tickets. | |||
For payment it has been suggested that if you select the "Golomt Bank" option on the drop down menu when you go to pay then overseas card payments will be accepted. The payment page is in Cyrillic. Once payment was completed, an e-ticket gets generated in pdf format, and if you log into your account you can see and print out all the bookings you have made. Staff seem happy to accept the pdf on a mobile device without a hard copy. | |||
==Infrastructure== | ==Infrastructure== | ||
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===Rule of the road=== | ===Rule of the road=== | ||
Not known | Not known, but almost all the countries railways are single track. | ||
===Distances=== | ===Distances=== | ||
No information | |||
==Other Railways== | ==Other Railways== | ||
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==Special Notes== | ==Special Notes== | ||
Mongolia takes border security very seriously and foreign nationals are not routinely allowed access to border areas. The authorities can regard zones of up to 100km inside the border as a border area. If you wish to travel in these areas, you must get permission from the State Frontier Guard Authority. Only a few specified land border crossings are open to foreigners. These include the international rail crossings into Russia and China. | |||
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Revision as of 10:13, 11 May 2025
Country Details
See Wikipedia
Maps
- Online: web archive copy of Mongolia map from the Railways Through Europe site, dated April 2009
- Online: Schienennetz der Mongolei 29 December 2022
- Printed: Quail Map Company: China Railway Atlas, 3rd edition (ISBN: 978 1 898319 82 8) was published in 2008. See Printed Maps.
Timetable
- Printed: summary timetables are available in some editions of the European Rail Timetable.
Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services
None known.
