To travel in the National Network of Spanish Railways (Renfe) You will have to present a printed ticket from one of the 110 dispensing machines located in the different stations or in PDF format from your Smartphone. Currently there tickets with locator that guarantee a better service to hundreds of thousands of users, who daily use this means of transport to travel short or long distances.
In this article we are going to teach you how to print a Renfe ticket only with a locator online, but we will also show you everything you need to know about this railway system designed more than 10 years ago to make your trips as comfortable, safe and pleasant.
Steps to print a Renfe ticket with locator
The locator of a Renfe ticket will be easily identified. When you buy the ticket online, a PDF file will be sent to your email that you can print or always carry with you on your Smartphone. The locator will be in the barcode and you must present it to be able to use it. If you want to know how to print it, please pay attention:
- The first step is to open the Renfe application with the ticket number in hand
- Enter the ticket code (not the locator) for each route you want to make
- When you insert the ticket number you will see how the trips you want to make will appear one by one on the screen
- If you open the details of the trips you will see a QR code that you must pass to the Passwallet application
- Within the detail of the trip, press the icon of three horizontally arranged stripes in green, blue and yellow colors
- It is precisely this icon that provides the user with the link so that they can download the trip through the APP
Ways to buy a Renfe ticket
You will find out here what are the different ways that Renfe has to buy and issue tickets with or without a locator:
By Internet
- Enter the Renfe website through this link, as long as you are registered in the system
- In the section My trips Indicate the preferred destination and request that the ticket be sent directly to your email in Passbook format.
By phone
- Dial the number 912 32 03 20 for the purchase of the ticket
- You will receive an SMS with the ticket to your Smartphone indicating the date of operation
- To access the ticket, you will have to open the URL link sent in the SMS
- Of course, you must have an Internet connection to complete this procedure.
- Click on the link and you will get the train access code
PDF format for tickets
Renfe has felt the need to optimize its service, so its users will no longer need to print the ticket at the nearest station. They will be able to issue the ticket through the sales system and present it in PDF format.
The PDF ticket has security codes similar to a printed ticket. In this way, you will be able to enter the access controls without any inconvenience.
This new system also allows the user to travel using vouchers such as Ave Bonus, Plus Card Subscription and Collaborative Bonus. Now, it is necessary to print the ticket when you need to make a combination of train and bus.
How do you get the ticket back?
If for any reason you lose the message or the email where the ticket was sent, you can retrieve it and have it available again for your trips. How? You will have to use the locator number to have the ticket again.
You will only have to enter the official website of Renfe and go to the option Recover Ticket. Do the procedure up to two hours before boarding the train or rail, if you have some time.
You can also recover using the autochecking machines available is any of the stations. This alternative is essentially useful for those people in a great hurry.
If you have made the purchase in a travel agency and you lose the ticket, recovering it will be more difficult, since these offices use paper with different types of pagers that sometimes do not work with all machines. However, you can try.
