Jon WorthOff to Paris this morning to go to the launch of the new European Sleeper night train this evening
There won’t be a full #CrossBorderRail thread but there will be some updates
And as ever the ticket for my TER to Paris was booked with @[email protected] this morning with the minimum of fuss
And there’s my train, the 08:21 TER to Paris from Nuits-sous-Ravières. Trip time: just over 2 hours
The next direct one? 18:21
Yes 10 HOURS LATER
There are ones with changes at 09:10 and 17:21, but that’s still 8 hours with nothing
France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, SNCF 🤷♂️
Passenger behaviour on this line always perplexes me
The entrance to the platforms at Tonnerre, St Florentin, Laroche-Migennes, Joigy and Sens are all at the back of the train
The exit at Bercy: right at the front
But no one walks forward at their boarding station. Here at the front it’s empty!
And don’t go “but they’re not regulars!”
Loads are regulars, especially from Laroche-Migennes, Joigny and Sens that are at the limit of being commutable from Paris
These people are making odd decisions day after day. I don’t get it
5 trains in the next 3 hours
Not like this is a terminus station in Europe’s largest urban area or anything 🤷♂️
Anyway the weather is better than I had hoped, and I have the bike with me, so I'll head to Creteil-Pompadour and try and work out where Trenitalia is building its #CrossChannelRail (or not) depot!
But given the area is in Val-de-Marne (94) not Ville de Paris (75), the cycling infra is likely to be a horrid to non existent...
However none of them can sell me what I need: an Interrail seat reservation for a TGV later in my #CrossBorderRail trip
This used to be possible. But SNCF removed it from machines because they’re *****
Seriously though, I think I’ve worked out how Trenitalia‘s Frecciarossa depot will work
It‘s not quite how I’d foreseen it. But it looks workable
Whether it works for London trains though… 🤔
Just ordered a “café allongé” in a Paris cafe
“Vous voulez un café américain?” the guy replies
🤔
There’s the new European Sleeper night train, departing Paris for Berlin
What SNCF couldn’t be bothered to continue, a small startup has done, albeit only 3x a week to start
But a good job by Elmer, Chris and the team! 👏
Anne-Martine@jonworth.eu and later this year they start a route from Brussels to Milan https://www.europeansleeper.eu/destinations
Sheddi@jonworth.eu
Asking as a Brit (where the various train operating companies seemed to comfortably share a single ticketing system) why does SNCF think it needs three different machines?
Asking as a Brit (where the various train operating companies seemed to comfortably share a single ticketing system) why does SNCF think it needs three different machines?