The trains in Spain…

[nancy75]

Wise mums of Spain - can you help with a boring train question please?
I am trying to book train tickets from Barcelona to Tarragona via the RNFE website.
The site appears to show numerous trains every day, but only about 4 are bookable online - is it normal that most tickets have to be booked at the station or am I trading their website totally wrong (quite possible, my Spanish is a best Rusty)

How far ahead are you trying to book? They limit ticket sales so the others may already be booked up.

Might they be booked out?

I doesn’t seem to matter when they are (I’ve done loads of dates) it just says something like not available electronically but in the station

I don’t think they would all be booked up - it’s loads of trains & some of the times you can’t buy are the ones that wouldn’t be popular

Are all the dates you’ve tried between now and October though? It’s a really busy summer for travel.

There are spaces on the same 4 trains everyday you look at, it’s unlikely the others are all fully booked but those 4 times are not every single day

There will be plenty of Regional trains when you can buy a ticket on the day. The Renfe site has (or used to have) two areas. One for long distance and one for regional (short distance)

Fall mainly on the plain?

Sorry, thought you were starting a thread about misheard My Fair Lady lyrics 😊