Jon WorthAug 17, 2024

OK, thanks to @bohwaz for clearing up the SNCF luggage rules

See pages 35 and 178 of SNCF's terms of carriage - PDF https://www.sncf-voyageurs.com/medias-publics/2024-07/tarifs-voyageurs-version-5-juillet-2024-VDEF-FR.pdf

Your luggage needs to VISIBLY indicate your name, and NOTHING ELSE

Note: despite SNCF's own luggage labels having a field for telephone number, this is NOT OBLIGATORY

Also the name being visible would be - for example - covered by you writing the name directly on the bag. It does not have to be a separate label

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Show threadJon WorthAug 17, 2024

Also via @bohwaz "Ces dispositions ne s'appliquent pas aux effets ou menus objets que le voyageur conserve à sa disposition immédiate." - the name requirement does not apply to bags you have right with you

But it DOES apply to each of the bags covered by the luggage rules (1 small, 2 large bags) and - for example - were you to leave a handbag on a seat and go to the toilet, SNCF staff could still get arsey

A mess

Want to be sure? Luggage tag ONLY WITH YOUR NAME ON IT, and ON ALL YOUR BAGS

Show threadJon WorthAug 17, 2024

Agh

There is also a QR code system you can use... https://etiquettebagage.sncf.com

That supposedly guarantees your anonymity

But given it's a LAW that states that your name and first name have to be shown, AND there are operators other than SNCF in France... Hmmm. What the hell to make of this?

Mon étiquette bagage

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@jon Reading all this reinforces my idea that a Venn diagram of #English, #French, and #German cultural characteristics has huge intersections and that animosities towards each other are a result of us pretending to be oh-so-different.
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Show threadJon WorthAug 18, 2024
@chris the railways are *very* different though. DB wouldn’t do something this weird.
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@jon Of course they won’t. I guess that tracking the new passengers boarding at the many stops is enough of a challenge for DB and I’m still impressed by it.
Matching them with their bags is impossible.
For Germany a densely interconnected network of moderately fast trains may be more useful than a sparsely interconnected network with high-speed trains between few and distant stops.
But that’s nothing I have any expert knowledge on, only anecdata I experienced being a passenger.