Bikes on Trains in Europe
 I found a great web site on the net maintained by
Deutsche Bahn, the German railway system. The URL of the English
language page is http://bahn.hafas.de/bin/query.exe/en.
Pick the city you are travelling from and the one you're travelling
to and the date and time you'll be travelling, then select the box
"carriage of bicycles required" and then the button "Search
connections". It will list the trains on which you can take bikes as
accompanied luggage (i.e., not boxed), the times and the number of
changes you must make, for Germany, France, England, Holland, Spain
and perhaps others but, depending on the information that the other
national railways have provided, there may or may not be info on
whether or not you can take your bikes as accompanied baggage. For
France, if the train is identified as one which will allow
bikes, the bikes travel free. That is not necessarily true for Germany or
Italy. The German site is infinitely more useful than the
French site provided by SNCF (France's national railway) because it
automatically locates trains on which bikes travel free on the French
rail system.
I hope this is useful.
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