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Atocha Railway Station: Good luck in Atocha
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  • Written by krissyM on Jun 20, 2007
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    Category: Train
    Getting TO/AROUND: Good luck when trying to buy train tickets in Atocha Station. Unfortuneatly I didn't speak Spanish while I was there so I realize that I myself can be blamed. I tried to do three day trips out of Madrid to Segovia, Cordoba and Toledo. Each of these trip uses a different railway system so we had to buy our tickets at three different locations in the station and I don't think a single person in the station spoke english. It was really difficult trying to sort this all out. And make sure you save your ticket because you need the ticket to exit out of the station. don't be like me and trow it out after they have checked it on the train. I agrued with the gaurd for 15 minutes before he would let me out of the station. Well, more like he yelled at me in spanish and I looked dumb because I didn't understand.

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    puerto_lover Wed Sep 3, 2008 14:24 UTC
     It's confusing. But RENFE has Customer Assistance points in the station staffed by nice people who can help.

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