I've been looking into cross border rail in the EU for some weeks now...

One of the 🔑 issues to make it work is for timetable and ticketing data to be made available to third parties (e.g. you can find the times and book a DB train on someone else's site)

This is the overview
🟢 Data on timetable and tickets is available to third parties (countries in light green have some problems with ticket prices to third parties)
🟠 It's possible to get timetables, but no ticket data or only partial ticket data
🔴 Seems impossible to get anything
Now there are some caveats here...

🇳🇴 is undergoing liberalisation, ought to be solved soon
🇩🇪🇸🇪 and perhaps others I have examined only long distance - tickets for local trains are a headache of their own
🇷🇺 some agencies sell RZD tickets, but I can't work out how this works
No doubt I will have made errors here... so please tell me! The basic question: does any website *other than the rail operator* list timetables and sell tickets for that railway?

I am mainly concerned with long distance rail, but tips for regional rail also v welcome!
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