Originally Posted by
tom tulpe
BEWARE there are major renovation works at Saarbruecken Hauptbahnhof right now. The ticket office has been relocated to the mall across the station forecourt (behind the tram stop, next to McDonalds, 2 mins walk as you leave the station). But there are plenty ticket machines, both the long-dinstance (touchscreen + credit card) and regional (buttons + cash) variety.
Tom
Thanks for the warning. I was able to use the touchscreen machine for the tickets, which proved to be very useful practice for later in the week when I had to get tickets from a similar machine with only a minute or so to spare.
Good thing I did, too, because although I had been advised that tickets are almost never checked on German trains, I had my tickets checked on all three of the trips I took on German trains this past week.