The Rheinbahn keeps finding new alternatives for its customers to buy tickets. For expamle, there is OnlineTicket, the individualized ticket machine for your home.
You select the ticket you desire at www.shop.rheinbahn.de and just pay with your credit card or Giropay, or by automatic bank debit.

You can relax and have your ticket delivered to your home or print it out yourself. The tickets are personally issued and valid with official photo identification.
The Rheinbahn also offers the HandyTicket, the ticket machine for on the move. You order your ticket with your mobile phone, easily, quickly and without a cash transaction.

After a onetime registration with the Rheinbahn over the Internet, or over the telephone at 0 18 03/50 40 36, you have the opportunity to order a single ticket at any time, a four-ticket, a day ticket, additional ticket, or the Ticket 1000 or Ticket2000 passes, in the A, B, C and D categories, for the entire region of the VRR rail alliance.

Yet another possibility is to buy your ticket in the traditional way, with a pre-purchase at Rheinbahn customer service center, at various sales partners or at a Rheinbahn ticket machine.
You can buy your ticket directly from the driver on buses. Don´t forget that single-tickets, four-tickets and day tickets have to be validated before you start your trip.
Validators are found right on the train. If you use the Deutschen Bahn (S-Bahn, RE or RB) please validate your ticket on the platform.

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