Originally Posted by
airoli
That only applies if you happen to take the one daily train continuing on to Vienna, and only to one particular car in First Class in which frequently all seats have been reserved in advance. @:-)
I did not know that! I obviously got rather lucky then with my last minute random train purchase on a Thursday morning when I decided I'd go spend the weekend in a new country

Thinking about it though, I also got the same train back... are you sure they're still so rare? I think the line I was on was every 2.5 hours or so, and it was indeed quite a long one to somewhere quite far off.