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There are no services to Brittany from St Lazare, only 2 routes to Normandy (Rouen Le Havre, and Caen Cherbourg, plus the branch lines). All trains to Brittany leave from Montparnasse, which also serves Normandy (Granville). Regarding the km post 0, have a look here. In 1895 it was really the...

Probably over-cautious, but I choose non-stop service myself, as far as possible, when I have to go to CDG.

Hello, It's hard to give you some good advices, since you don't seem to have a good knowledge of the Paris area. At first, like many other places in the world, if you want to visit and enjoy a stay in Paris, choose a hotel in Paris, not in the suburbs. Choosing a hotel in the suburbs are...

There is a confusion here, you are talking about a part of Grande Ceinture not Petite Ceinture

Tickets are sold until the train departure time (well, maybe it stops 5 minutes before, since train doors are to be closed 2 minutes before scheduled departure time). The only risk is if the train is fully booked, you will not get any tickets for this train. So it' a better idea to buy the...

Hello, Some comments here below No other comments. Tell her to have a nice travel. Éric

Hello, No need of a Paris Visite ticket, which includes reduced fares to many museums. To juste travel, the daily ticket is Mobilis. For zones 1 & 2, a Mobilis ticket costs 6.60€. It is not sold online, but in all metro or RER stations at vending machines. I noted that advert to Mobilis is...

Hello, I'm going to try to give you the suitable answers I think the easyest way to buy a Pass Navigo, is to go to one of the "Agence Commerciale", sometimes called "Le Club" of the RATP. You may find their location here. You will be queuing for 5 or 10 minutes, and then it will take 5...

Hello, Having planned half a day along the GWML between Reading and Didcot on 17 August, I would like to kwow which bridges are still suitable for train photography, and which are not (under reconstruction, rebuilt with high sides...). I intended to go to one of Purley-on-Thames bridges, or...

Hello, Stainless steel light carriages (RIO /RRR) operated as push-pull trains with BB 25500 locos are not allowed on the Cannes to Grasse line, so all trains Ventimiglia Nice Cannes Grasse are made of double deck emu's TER 2N (Z23500) and TER 2N NG (ZE26500). But there is till a significant...

Hello, When booking several seats in TGV's, the computer take them grouped (carré in 2nd class, club quatre in 1st class) as far as possible. So if you book in advance, you have many chances to get such places which are very convenient for a family. If it is not the case (grouped seats not...

As far as I know, SNCF has still the monopoly of selling tickets in France (there is a project of a private web site, but still not in operation). So, the link is http://www.voyages-sncf.com/

Hello, Everything has been said about the barriers, but I am a bit surprised by your question : you have a tight connection between a TGV and a plane ? But what about a signalling problem, a suicide or a cow on the tracks, a strike, a cable theft, a breakdown of your TGV, somebody ill in your...

No, except freight trains :wink:

Hello, Too late for investigations tonight :wink:, but let's say that 100% of Paris to Bordeaux and beyhond services are TGV's. But Paris-Orleans-Tours "Aqualys" services are still loco hauled trains. There is still a night train between Paris (23:11) and Irun (7:36), but no chance to see...

All trains Paris Caen Cherbourg are still loco hauled, with BB 15000 and BB 26000 on Paris to Cherbourg services which are classiifed as V200 (200 kph). During week days (Monday - Friday) there are also Paris to Evreux or Serquigny with push-pull double deck suburban carriages, with old BB...

A few comments on the parts I know myself. As said previously, the section Clermont-Ferrand Nimes (Ligne des Cévennes) is very scenic and a masterpiece of engineering (many viaducts and tunnels), especially between Langogne and Grand-Combe. Unfortunately, the line has suffered of low...

Hello, 5955 Paris Bercy-Clermont Ferrand --> Loco hauled (BB 26000), 7 or 14 "teoz" carriages. 15957 Clermont Ferrand-Marseille St Charles --> should be a 3 corails consist hauled by a diesel BB 67400 17402 Marseille St Charles-Veynes Devoluy --> DMU (probably X72500 or AGC) 85662...

Bonjour, Je préfère m'adresser à toi en MP, je m'exprime tout de même mieux en français ;-) C'est ton message "Trainspotting in UK" qui m'a interpellé. difficile de répondre à une demande aussi vaste, c'est comme si tu demandais où faire du trainspottting en France, impossible de répondre...