Jon WorthHere we go again!
#CrossBorderRail Extra Day 04
Heading to Basel SBB first, then onwards to Paris via Nuits-sous-Ravières and then onto a night train to Latour du Carol
Here’s today’s intro video
https://urbanists.video/w/sTWxEETdNaCbdR2jTRsHcM
PeerTube
First trip with the new (secondhand) Birdy Green - that also has different panniers
There was a little glitch with the front brake this morning (I’d accidentally dislodged a brake pad) so I had to pedal manically to Südkreuz
The massive rucksack is getting dropped off in Nuits-sous-Ravières today 😊
SNCF!
Let's build high speed lines all over!
Also SNCF!
Let's put ridiculously long dwell times at our stations!
TGV INOUI 2239 I am taking later
Do I understand it that you cannot buy tickets online for Rodalies Catalunya? There are no sales in the app, and no sales on the Generalitat de Catalunya or the Renfe sites
And I wonder what there is in Latour de Carol-Entveitg (or La Tor de Querol-Enveig as Rodalies calls it) - because as it’s in France will there be a machine there?
Anyway as the timetable is so damned bad I have 2 hours there tomorrow morning to figure it out :-)
Moof! 🔜 #JetLagTheGame NL@jon you can buy tickets on the Rodalies app. The app will tell you that you need to print them out at a station, but I can say that the QR code for the season tickets works fine, though there are only a handful of gates that are enabled to read QR codes.
@moof does a regular ticket have a QR code on it? Or do you get a code to use at a ticket machine?
@jon a regular ticket is card with a magnetic stripe. They are compatible with the Barcelona metro system gate lines, as the card T-Casual/Usual etc have to work too.
The 7-character code you get from the app is typed into the Rodalies machines, and I think it has a QR reader, too, but can’t be sure, I’m not a regular Rodalies user. This is basically a mechanism that is used for the “local travel included” fares on AVE/AVANT etc. where the QR code is printed on those tickets too.
There are a number of QR readers in gate lines, but not all the gates are QR enabled.