Oliver Blanthorn6d ago

Knowing how much my followers love massive PDFs about French railways, here's Adrien Thérond's master's dissertation on how TERs in Centra Val de Loire are dealing with increased passenger numbers

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XOLthgIZ9BIb_6OcxpenKzYCeWm6JFYh/view

juicy bits:

1) contracts penalise the SNCF for running shorter trains than planned but no incentive to run longer ones

2) SNCF software is so bad that trains can only be listed full for their entire journeys. The SNCF creates fake trains to solve this

1/2

Show threadRaph V.
@bovine3dom I remember my late grandfather complaining, back in the 1990s, that SNCF made the mistake of procuring "Socrate", an information system that was designed for airlines, and therefore was terrible at handling the fact that trains have multiple stops, but apparently lessons have not been learned in the past (checks calculator) 30 years...
Jul 10 at 1:47pmWeb
Show threadOliver Blanthorn6d ago
@raph_v i love that this is the kind of thing your granddad talked to you about. aspirational
Show threadRaph V.6d ago
@bovine3dom he was a "La Vie du Rail" subscriber!