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Rolf42
5 years ago

Legally speaking, the claim to issue a ticket expires five minutes before departure of the train (is in § 9 (2) EVO so regulated.

In practice, however, you can usually buy a ticket at the machine shortly before departure.

jakkily
5 years ago

If you make it pre-sale, you can buy it already days before, but you need to devalue it before boarding the train so that it is valid.

Otherwise, you can get an already devalued ticket immediately before you arrive at the station.

Depending on whether there is a DB Store there or otherwise at the vending machine.

Greeting

Rolf42
5 years ago
Reply to  jakkily

As a rule, a train ticket in Germany does not have to be devalued beforehand, the date of validity is determined upon purchase.

There are exceptions only within certain traffic allies (and only there are devaluers at the stations).

jakkily
5 years ago
Reply to  Rolf42

If you buy a ticket in advance, it must be devalued before you can use it legally!

Rolf42
5 years ago

No, only in certain cases, in the case of short-distance journeys within certain traffic allies.

Tickets for the long-distance traffic of the DB (or generally to the DB tariff) do not have to be devalued, and for example in Hamburg or Frankfurt (M) there are no devaluers at all.

Probably you come from a region with a traffic network where devaluers are used, but in other regions there are other regulations.

newcomer
5 years ago

that can also be 5 minutes before but places will no longer be free

UUAsun
5 years ago

Depends on how fast you tap.

Theoretically you can buy the ticket in the last second