If you do want to visit Xian on the way from Beijing to Lhasa, and not want to pay extra service fee to book a new train tickets from Xian to Lhasa(you know,It is very hard and expensive to book a new tickets from Xian to Lhasa in peakseason), Rebook your train tickets at transfer station is a great idea. Here Let me introduce how to transfer at Xian Train station.

Suppose you get on the train from Beijing to Lhasa at D01, in the evening.
Step 1. you will arrive in Xian train station in the morning of D02, upon you arrive in Xian, you get off the train and go to the tickets office of train station to rebook the train tickets to D03 or D04. it takes around 30 minutes to finish this work. the train station will issue a new train tickets for you without any service charge.

Step 2. Get on the next train you rebook with the same train code and same departure time.
But please notice that, your soft sleeper or hard sleeper berth is not available now, the rebooked tickets is just a boarding pass for you to get the next train, you need to pay extra to the train attendant on the new train to get a new soft sleeper or hard sleeper train tickets. the extra cost is around 200RMB-500RMB per person. but sometimes, the soft sleeper is not available on this new train in peakseason.

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