How border control works between Austria and Slovakia?

WE are trying to take trains from Salzburg to Bratislava, does anyone know how the Boder control procedure between Austria and Slovakia (where passports are checked)works? Do they usually happen on the train? It%26#39;s our first time in eastern europe.

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Slovakia became a Schengen Agreement member country in December 2007.

Thus you should have no passport or border control entering Slovakia from another Schengen country such as Austria.

You will have a passport control as you enter the first Schengen country that you visit- then basically passport check free within the member countries.

I suggest tha you google %26quot; Schengen Agreement %26quot; or use a similar search engine to learn more about this Agreement and review the list of member countries.

This will assist you in learning more about this system for travels.

You will also find many different definitions regarding what is or is not considered %26quot;Eastern Europe%26quot;

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There is no passport control anymore (Schengen agreement) and in general there is no customs between EU countries. Usually just the train crew is changing at the border but even that does not take place anywhere. Police is allowed to check who you are (ID-card or passport) but this rarely happens.

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thank you!

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...carrying on from what Vertical said, to most inhabitants of what was once the Warsaw Pact and are now in the EU, %26#39;eastern%26#39; Europe now begins at the Ukrainian/Belarus/Russian border.

It is a political thing and to be safe it is best to refer to it as %26#39;central%26#39; Europe - after all, if you look at the Czech Republic, for example, many people still refer to it as %26#39;eastern%26#39; Europe, even though geographically it lies almost directly above Austria and borders largely with Germany - some people can get sensitive about it :)

You won%26#39;t even notice that you have gone from one country to another any more, and the train from Vienna to Bratislava is just a little suburban commuter-type train, except for the daily through train to Košice which is a modern express.

You are supposed to have your passport/ID card on you by law, but in practice you will not need it - I%26#39;ve left mine at home many times when travelling between Czech Rep./Slovakia/Austria!