What is an e-ticket or electronic ticket?
An electronic or e-ticket is the newest reservation confirmation for booking reservations trains in Italy. This is exclusively available on trains that originated within Italy. Upon completing an e-tickets booking – you will receive only an email confirmation of your train journey in place of the printed and shipped tickets. This email will include the booking confirmation code referred to as a “PNR” and the booking change code. This confirmation PNR will also include specific train information – date, time, number of passengers, fare code and rules. An e-ticket will either allow you to travel “ticketless” – boarding the train with only the PNR code – or will require you to “print a ticket upon departure” at the self service machine at the train station. In general high speed trains will be ticketless and the regional, overnight and cross-border trains will require you to print & validate your ticket before boarding your train for departure. Pay close attention to your email confirmati
