The child’s passage is on the train: rules, age, benefits, documents, power of attorney, ticket, support

The article includes tips for parents planning a trip by train with their child. Read about whether a ticket is needed, what documents to take with you, how to feed and how to entertain the baby on a trip.

Going on a trip by rail, passengers should know the basic rules, including rules on how to transport children.

Rules for the travel of children on trains. Until how many years you can ride children by train for free, when do you need a children's ticket?

The first questions that parents are going to go with a child by train are approximately the following:

• to what age the child travels on the train for free
• at what age you already need to pay for it
• is children's tickets cheaper than adults

A child over 5 years old needs a children's railway ticket.

To find out the answer to them, parents are recommended to read article 16 of the rules for the transportation of passengers, baggage, cargo luggage in railway transport, which entered into force in 2014

1. An adult passenger has the right to spend one child with him and not pay for his travel, if the child is not yet 5 years old, on the mandatory condition that the baby will not occupy a separate place. A special ticket is issued at this child at the railway checkout.
2. If the child is not 5 years old, but he will occupy a separate place in the train car, parents will already need to purchase a children's ticket for him
3. If two babies who are not 5 years old go with one of the parents, one of them arrange a free ticket, and the second is a discount children with the provision of a place
4. Children from 5 to 10 years old can travel on long -distance trains exclusively with adults. They will already have a separate place, parents are required to buy a children's ticket

Important: if a child’s birthday is on a child’s day, he turns 10 years old, he still has the right to travel on a children's ticket

The rules for the passage of children in suburban trains are practically similar in that they exist for long -distance trains. This means that in the train, the baby from birth to 4 years travels absolutely free if he sits in the arms of his mother or dad.
If he already turned 5, a preferential children's ticket is issued at the checkout.
A ticket without any discount for travel in a suburban railway transport must be purchased from the child from 7 years old. From the same age, he can go in an electric train without adults.

Benefits for children on long -distance trains

• A children's railway ticket will cost cheaper than an adult, “full”. Depending on the type of the car in which the child will go, the cost of his travel will be 35% - 50% of the amount that an adult would pay
• Children - schoolchildren in exceptional cases have the right to travel in ambulances and passenger trains unaccompanied by parents. For example, on a school tour. Each of them is issued a special certificate, which gives them the right to pay for a fare 50% of the full ticket cost
• Since 2016, schoolchildren for 10 - 17 years can take advantage of the right to travel on railway trains (national communication) with a 50% discount throughout the year, including in the summer
• On his own, the child can go on a trip to the railway transport from the age of 14. He must have either a birth certificate or a passport with him (if any)

Important: when the child and the adult accompanying him sit in the car, they need to present the conductor a birth certificate (original or copy, notarized) or child's passport

Discount for a children's ticket-30-50% of its full cost.

Children in the train compartment and reserved seat: Discounts for a ticket

The railway from time to time provide common discounts on trains traveling in various directions. For example, the discount is provided:

• on the upper shelves - 15%
• in places 34 - 38 - up to 30%

Important: today it is very easy to purchase adults and children's railways via the Internet. In this case, the on-line sales of tickets itself will calculate how much it will be necessary to pay for the child’s travel. It will only be necessary to enter into it data on the route, age of the child and available benefits

If tickets are purchased standardly, at the railway station, the cashier will inform the specific cost of a travel document for the baby, depending on which car, reserved seat or compartment.

Sometimes there is a discount on the upper shelves.

Necessary documents for a child on a train

The child will be able to make a trip to the railway transport if there are such documents:

• paid or free ticket
• certificates from birth in the original or notarized copies of the certificate
• foreign passport (for those who have such)

Video: a child’s trip on a train. How to feed how to buy tickets of a coupe or reserved seat and another

Do I need a power of attorney for a child on a train?

For the passage of children under the age of 10, using the railway within Russia, a power of attorney is not needed. It is enough for an adult accompanying the child, for example, to a grandmother, it is enough to have an identity document and a child’s birth certificate.
If a child’s trip is supposed by train abroad, it is enough for a child’s photograph to be glued into a passport of one of the parents.
For a child who goes abroad with one of the parents does not need a notarized resolution of another parent. It is quite enough that the relevant authorities did not receive an application for the abduction of the child from another parent.

Accompaniment of children on the train

According to the rules of railway transportation, adults should be accompanied by children under 10 years of age. Unaccompanied, children can travel from the age of 14 and older if they have a passport.
Accordingly, on foreign trips, one child may go without escort either at 16 or at 18, depending on what country he is going to.

A child under 14 years old travels on trains only with one of the adults.

A child with a grandmother on a train. What you need to know?

If the child goes by train with his grandmother, and his grandmother, for example, has another surname, then the presence of a child’s birth certificate is enough for trips within the country. Foreign trips have their own rules, and to send a child with a grandparents abroad, you will need a notarized resolution of parents.
For the convenience of traveling to a child next with a grandmother, it is advisable to purchase a ticket for a comfortable lower place and, if possible, to a compartment car.

Traveling a child on a train without parents

Children can travel without parents if:

• they go by a group accompanied by adults (teachers, educators)
• they go with other adults (relatives, acquaintances)

The child must definitely give himself (or to some of the adults who accompany the child) a birth certificate, and provide an adult with a document proving his identity.

On a tour with the class, you can go on a train and without parents.

Group trips of children, for example, to a sanatorium or a recreation camp, are issued by authorized persons.

CHILDRENT PRODUCTION UNDER LEAR: HOD Manege, mesh

It so happens that it is necessary to transport a very young child on the train who has not yet been even a year. Of course, such a trip will not be easy for parents who should take care of comfort and the necessary sanitary measures for their baby.
Such a baby, of course, does not need a separate ticket. He will sleep in the sleeping place of his parents. It is good if both parents go, and if one of them needs to be left for a while, the other may look at the baby.

Railway arena.

• If one mother goes with the baby, then, if necessary, he will leave, she may need a special mesh or the railway isnah so that the child does not fall from the shelf
• You also need to make sure that there is a sufficient number of diapers for the child, a special waterproof diaper for sleeping and, possibly a clean pillowcase and an additional towel
• It is also important, if the mother does not breastfeed the baby, take with her a sufficient number of bottles with ready -made food for the baby, since it is unlikely that the train has the necessary conditions for cooking children's food
• Another important recommendation for parents with the baby to a year will be the one that you must definitely take a hat for the baby with you, and, perhaps, warm things, because on the train it can be blown up on the move

Video: railway room, playpen for traveling by train

What to take with you on the road?

Going on the road, you need to carefully think about what you need to take with you, so that the luggage is not too heavy, and that all the necessary things and food are with you.
Depending on how much a train trip can last, you need to take:

• the required amount of food and drinking
• warm (or vice versa light things)
• entertainment

Entertainment on long trips is necessary for both adults and children, even if the company travels. After all, a trip on the train involves a closed space, swaying, lack of familiar movements, which happens to cause stress.

A child under 3 years old needs to take baby food on a train.

Today, in the presence of all kinds of gadgets, a child can be captivated by virtual entertainments - games, films, etc.
A small child can also look at the cartoon on the tablet, but he will still need toys that parents should take care of the trip.

What to take a child on a train from food than to feed?

Depending on the distance of the trip and the season, you can make a list of products that you can take the child on the road. The main thing is that at the same time you need to remember - the products should not be perishable.

1. It is not advisable to take with you and give the child meat products and dairy, which cannot be stored for a long time without a refrigerator
2. All kinds of chips, crackers and seeds that children on the train will eat not very clean hands are also not desirable and which cause a desire to drink
3. It is preferably from products to give the child a couple of boiled eggs, vegetables - tomatoes, cucumbers, bun or bellied cookies, apples, bananas, oranges
4. A small child needs to buy ready -made baby food on the road, which is sterile and safe on a trip
5. Be sure to have a bottle of mineral insane water, but colored sparkling drinks are better not to take on a trip

Fruits and sandwiches are suitable for the train food.

What to do with a child on a train: games, tips

It is known that the train shakes on the go, so it is better for the child not to take coloring, crafts and those toys with him that can crumble and roll into the far corner.
If the child loves to fiddle some toy, let it be for him. You can also take a couple of books to read to a small child. An older child may be fully carried away by a virtual electronic game.

During a trip on the train, the child can draw.

• Many passengers, including children, like to watch landscapes outside the window on train trips. Invent and play with your child some game about how some fabulous character lives in the distance, and then develop the plot of a fabulous story with the participation of your child
• As an option, tell your child about the place where you go, play cities or countries, use children's songs (unless, of course, you interfere with other passengers)
• In the end, let your child just wander along the car, since a long stay in a closed space may be difficult for him

Video: with a child on a train - what we take for entertainment