I am trying to find train tickets in between cities in Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Seville) and also in between cities in Germany (Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Regensburg). I can't seem to find many websites that offer point to point tickets other than one that had tickets, but they were VERY pricey. Any suggestions/help?
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The best train timetable site for nearly all of Europe is the German Rail site, www.bahn.de. If you book your tickets on that site well in advance (up to 90 days allowed) for your travel within Germany, you can get discount fares for longer routes. In Bavaria (Munich and Regensburg) up to five people can travel all day on regional trains on a cheap Bayern-Ticket which includes local transportation in Munich and Regensburg.
The Spanish Rail site is www.renfe.es. You may find that the bus is a cheaper option for some of your routes in Spain.
Other websites will gladly sell you tickets, but only the two that TimS gave you are the real official sites, renfe.es for the Spanish national train system, and bahn.de for the German trains (and trains beyond Germany).
Learn your way around these sites - the renfe especially can be a bit of a handful. There the trains are grouped into local and regional and fast trans-national ones, don't give up if at first you don't get what you need, after a while you'll get the hang of it.
Note that trains crossing borders often are not priced online - one country's website doesn't display the entire fare because it can't produce the pricing component for the neighboring country - it's a nuisance but sometimes you have to email them for a quote.
One company in the US has had good reports, BETS (http://budgeteuropetravel.com/store/index.html), while my own experiences and those of others with raileurope have been dismal.
Just as a matter of curiosity - which is the company that quoted you - a you said - "very pricey" fares?