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Question: Which of these have you used, International from your home station  (Voting closed: February 01, 2023, 07:53:53)
Separate domestic rail ticket(s) and tickets beyond - 22 (32.4%)
CIV▸ (International Convention for the transportation of Passengers) tickets - 13 (19.1%)
RailEurope booking - 2 (2.9%)
Interail / Eurail - 5 (7.4%)
SailRail - 8 (11.8%)
Rail-fly - 3 (4.4%)
Package holiday including rail link - 6 (8.8%)
Something else - 6 (8.8%)
I have never taken a trip out of Great Britain from my local station - 3 (4.4%)
Total Voters: 34

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« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2023, 12:32:56 »
Does Heathrow Express from Paddington to Heathrow count?  Smiley
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« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2023, 09:50:10 »
I almost always book such trips well in advance, to take advantage of cheaper tickets in GB▸ (Great Britain) / on Eurostar, and then use either the Rail Europe or individual country rail service websites for onward travel, generally from Paris. I haven't yet had occasion to checkout what difference, if any, the merger of Eurostar & Thalys has made to mainland Europe ticketing options.

One rather jolly exception to this, some years ago, was DIG>PLY» (Plymouth - next trains) with GWR▸ (Great Western Railway), a pleasant early evening stroll to Millbay Docks, Brittany Ferries to Roscoff, and then SNCF▸ (Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais - French National Railways) to Brest, changing at Morlaix, to join a friend's yacht for a lovely sailing trip as far as Morbihan and then back to Dartmouth. I am pretty certain that absolutely no through ticketing options existed at the time.
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