Is there another way to book train tickets from outside France/Netherlands?

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The SNCF website is not well-made. One of its many defects is not working well with connections, and your ticket is particularly challenging (for SNCF website levels) since it involves a change of station in Paris. Get the Rocamadour–Paris ticket from SNCF (that should work) and shop around for the Paris–Amsterdam ticket (SNCF, Thalys and NS might have different quotas for cheaper advanced bookings). Alternatively, get the ticket from a human at a ticket window, either in Paris or in Amsterdam.

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It seems you'd be able to book (at least most of your journey) through nshispeed.nl. Toulouse (south of Rocamadour) to Amsterdam for 115 euros. My knowledge of French geography is not good enough to quickly make sure bookings direclty from Rocamadour are possible or not, but at worst, combining this with a ticket from SNCF would solve your problem.

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For my european train trips I usualy check Nshispeed, nmbs and sncf. All three have their disadventages, where being broken often fits them all. Nshispeed is the least transparant of the three by ommitting existing connections and the tendency to focus on the more expensive connections (except in their advertisments).

Rocamadour is unknown in both NMBS an NSHISPEED. It might be that the trains from Rocamadour don't easy connect with ongoing connections. It seems that the closest village you can find in ticket systems outside france is Brive-la-Gaillarde.

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You can book these trains with Loco2.

Unlike most travel booking websites, Loco2 has "bookmarkable" URLs (yey!), so you can link to a search for a specific day.

For example, for the first train on the 27th of July, see http://loco2.com/journey/rocamadour-amsterdam-1shd09z for details of the trains and the current price. (You can, of course, edit the search for your own dates!)

Full disclosure: Jamie (the answerer) is one of the founders of Loco2

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