Welcome to today's thread - #CrossChannelRail Day 19 - 4 April - Paris - Charles de Gaulle - Marne la Vallée-Chessy - Lyon - Ravières

[jon@gruene.social]

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossChannelRail Day 19 - 4 April - Paris - Charles de Gaulle - Marne la Vallée-Chessy - Lyon - Ravières

On the agenda today:
Stations
Charles de Gaulle
Marne-la-Vallée Chessy

Trains
Hitachi ETR 1000

Today's routes on the routes map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crosschannelrail-2025_1148540#7/47.277/4.543

[jon@gruene.social]

This morning‘s #CrossChannelRail news: HS1 is to offer financial incentives to new operator (also to Eurostar for new routes) in an effort to boost traffic https://www.ft.com/content/b0cb1698-d017-48dc-808d-c2d5ebf4bc8f

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And if you want a less clear but not paywalled version of the HS1 charges news, here’s The Guardian #CrossChannelRail https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/04/cross-channel-train-services-to-be-cheaper-to-run-as-operator-cuts-charges

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Had to do some non- #CrossChannelRail calls but now I’m on my way to ️ Charles de Gaulle Airport

Ticket is €13

I support airport surcharges but I’m not flying anywhere!

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Here’s this morning‘s #CrossChannelRail intro video. Forgot to post it in the thread! https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/jRB7w7NhpMcps9YkWa9or6

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Why has the RER abandoned putting maps on its platforms? They’re useful! #CrossChannelRail

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Paris Nord RER #CrossChannelRail

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Handy visuals here #CrossChannelRail

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What a mess. SNCF isn’t content with ticket barriers at CDG exiting the RER, so station a bunch of staff for a *further control* which makes exiting the escalators dangerous. Well done! FFS. #CrossChannelRail

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Whether you could run #CrossChannelRail from here I don’t know. What I do know is you shouldn’t try. This station - to board two TGVs - is already hell.

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Extra credit to this SNCF employee. She’s scanning tickets only for some other TGV, so happily sends passengers to the back of the long OUIGO queue instead. She could instead you know *help* and just scan them? It’s all SNCF Voyageurs!

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Oh and we had some passenger profiling from Sureté Ferroviaire, happy to single out a young black guy for a bag check

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This person covering their head, I presume asleep, has the right idea. Shield yourself from this mess - I get you!

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And off OUIGO to Marne La Vallée Chessy

Thank goodness I’m not going all the way to Toulon on this!

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High speed train

Slow speed boarding

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If I’ve counted it right they have 17 staff to check inOui and OUIGO tickets before passengers get to the platforms here at Marne La Vallée Chessy. Strikes me as… rather a lot!

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You can see how Marne La Vallée Chessy worked for #CrossChannelRail

Pic 1: the terminal
Pic 2: escalators secured with kind of fences, as in Lille
Pic 3: glass divider on the platform

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And here’s SNCF inviting harassment of passengers by telling them to display sensitive information

No, legally you DO NOT need to put a mobile number on your luggage!

How dare SNCF exceed what’s legally necessary in this publicity?

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So my little tour of the eastern edges of Paris is done

RER back into the city now!

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Arriving at Paris Gare de Lyon - the station for high speed trains to France‘s second and third cities Marseille and Lyon… and there are 4 trains in the next hour.

FOUR

That’s it.

The chronically under utilised capacity on French rail, off peak, makes me annoyed.