Ticket purchase on train

Ticket purchase on train

  • Are you travelling by train and you did not purchase your ticket early enough?
  • Or you would like to change for more comfortable seat in the 1st Class?
  • We have solutions for these situations and will help you with appropriate advice.


If you are boarding the train in a station where the ticket-desks are closed or unavailable

On majority of our trains, you can purchase the necessary travel document from our train personnel. You need to actively look for our train personnel on the train and they will sell you the required ticket:

Talk to us Do not do it this way

“A ticket, please”

The train personnel will not be able to sell you the ticket at the train door, but you can always contact them as soon as possible.

“Maybe, he won’t notice…”

To sit down and wait/do nothing is not the right way, even though it has been tolerated for long time – it is considered as travelling without the ticket.

Illustrations: Jozef Jurko


If boarding the train in the station with the open ticket-desk

  • If you actively look for our train personnel, you can purchase your ticket with a minor surcharge 1,50 € (or the zero-fare transportation ticket with the minor surcharge 3 €),
  • On the lines of the Tatra Electric Railway, Tatra Cog Railway, the line Žilina – Rajec, Zohor – Záhorská Ves, Kúty – Skalica na Slovensku and Bratislava-Petržalka – Rusovce, the passengers are asked to board the train with the appropriate ticket or with the customer card for zero-fare transport.


What else you can purchase aboard with no surcharges?

  • Berth and couchette tickets can be purchased from the couchette/berth coach attendant – employee of the partner company
  • 1st Class fee
  • Premium coupe 1plus reservation
  • Seat reservation for the 1st Class in the fast trains on the track Bratislava – Žilina – Košice / Humenné and back
  • Tickets for further journey for the passengers with valid SMS ticket


If boarding the train without a train staff

These lines are exceptions:

there is no train personnel and the passengers are asked to board the train with the appropriate ticket which needs to be validated on the train.

  • On the line Žilina – Rajec only integrated tickets need to be validated. Travellers entitled for zero-fare transport in High Tatrans and on the Žilina – Rajec line do not need zero-fare tickets, only their customer cards.
  • On the line Rusovce – Bratislava-Petržalka, if boarding in Rusovce station and travelling towards Bratislava-Petržalka, the single ZSSK and IDS BK tickets need to be validated by the engine driver,
  • Passengers who are not required to actively contact our train personnel: seniors over 70 years of age, passenger with special cards (disabled passengers) ŤZP and ŤZP-S and immobile passengers with the booked assistance or the passengers boarding the train with a pram or a bike if they board the dedicated parts of the train. On the lines of Tatra Electric Railway, Tatra Cog railway, on the line Žilina – Rajec and on the line Rusovce – Bratislava-Petržalka even these special groups of passengers need to purchase their tickets in advance and validate them aboard.
  •  on lines nr. 113 Zohor – Záhorská Ves and 114 Kúty – Skalica na Slovensku following conditions are valid:

    • the ZSSK transport conditions, prices and discounts are valid,
    • on the Zohor – Záhorská Ves line, incorporated in the Integrated Transport System In Bratislava Region (IDS BK), the IDS BK transport conditions and prices are valid as well,
    • passengers are obliged to validate their tickets in a ticket marker immediately after boarding (does not apply to ZSSK internet, “Ideme vlakom” mobile app and ZSSK SMS tickets), otherwise tickets are not valid,
    • at stops without ticket sale are tickets sold by a train driver, excepting zero-fare transport tickets,
    • passengers entitled to zero-fare transport use only their customer cards,
    • train stuff on transfer trains checks tickets from 113 and 114 lines and sells a follow-up tickets or zero-fare transport tickets.
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