Originally Posted by
ragerforever
I took this picture about 2 weeks ago when I was in chisinau. I took the Bacau-Chisinau overnight train. Some of these trains are part of a very long route. Mine was from Bucharest to Moscow. Few days later I continued my journey to Kiev. I went to Chisinau train station the day of and while the cashier spoke limited english she wrote down the times of departure and respective costs of 1st, 2nd, 3rd class. I just pointed my finger at which departure time and which class and that was that. You can pay with credit card no problem.
Well Bacau is just an intermediate stop for the Bucureşti-Chişinău train. But Bucharest to Moscow? I cannot recall seeing any of such through wagons recently (it being withdrawn a while ago), nor can I recreate a direct journey by international train planners. The old traject used to be anyway through the border at Suceava-Chernivtsi, and not through Moldova what I can recall.
Right now the only way to Kiev/Moscow by train is basically changing trains in Chisinau. Or did I miss something and are there direct services/through wagons again?