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Hi,
I am arriving to Warsaw on August 26, 2009 at 10.00 in the morning and will be happy to catch a train to Lviv at the same day as early as possible. I got problems to find a schedule on the web.
Please, I will appreciate to get an appropriate information.
Best.
The excellent
http://www.bahn.de/international/view/en/index.shtml
will give you train times and details, in English.
Search for 'Lvov' rather than 'Lviv'.
The Polish railway site
http://www.polrail.com/sections/travel/timetable.html
also has a link to the searchable timetable, in English.
For not TCV countries it is better to check timetable on the official websites of countries itself and not DB website (it's not that accurate concerning the region)
In your case you can use 13:41 train (originally Wroclav-Kiev, but carries many other carriages to Kiev as well). PLus just recently PKP and UZ started new and fancy night connection (22:39-6:03). It has Ukrainian and Polish cars (2/3 and 2/4), tickets starting from app.40 euro.
I agree that it is better to check the timetables of individual countries, but sometimes their websites are not easy to access or use in an English version.
For that reason the bahn.de website is a useful tool.
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