Welcome to today's thread - #CrossChannelRail Day 19 - 4 April - Paris - Charles de Gaulle - Marne la Vallée-Chessy - Lyon - Ravières
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Why has the RER abandoned putting maps on its platforms? They’re useful! #CrossChannelRail
Paris Nord RER #CrossChannelRail
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Paris Nord RER #CrossChannelRail
Handy visuals here #CrossChannelRail
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Handy visuals here #CrossChannelRail
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.
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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.
#CrossChannelRailWhether 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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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.
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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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!
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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Oh and we had some passenger profiling from Sureté Ferroviaire, happy to single out a young black guy for a bag check
This person covering their head, I presume asleep, has the right idea. Shield yourself from this mess - I get you!
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This person covering their head, I presume asleep, has the right idea. Shield yourself from this mess - I get you!
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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And off OUIGO to Marne La Vallée Chessy
Thank goodness I’m not going all the way to Toulon on this!
High speed train
Slow speed boarding
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High speed train
Slow speed boarding
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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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!
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
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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 platformAnd 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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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?
So my little tour of the eastern edges of Paris is done
RER back into the city now!
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So my little tour of the eastern edges of Paris is done
RER back into the city now!
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.
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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.
And 2 of the 4 trains this hour at Paris Gare de Lyon are regional ones
So just 2 high speed departures
Compare that to Milano Centrale with 8 departures, or Frankfurt (Main) Hbf with a dozen
(Oh and DB doesn’t show Italo. So the Milano total will be higher still)
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And 2 of the 4 trains this hour at Paris Gare de Lyon are regional ones
So just 2 high speed departures
Compare that to Milano Centrale with 8 departures, or Frankfurt (Main) Hbf with a dozen
(Oh and DB doesn’t show Italo. So the Milano total will be higher still)
And when SNCF goes whining to the Italian competition authority it can’t get the paths it wants in Italy, pause a moment: Italian high speed lines and stations are quite full, all day
By contrast SNCF Réseau can‘t refuse Trenitalia an off peak path in France when nothing else is going
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And when SNCF goes whining to the Italian competition authority it can’t get the paths it wants in Italy, pause a moment: Italian high speed lines and stations are quite full, all day
By contrast SNCF Réseau can‘t refuse Trenitalia an off peak path in France when nothing else is going
Trenitalia meanwhile needs 8 staff to board one 8 carriage Frecciarossa
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Trenitalia meanwhile needs 8 staff to board one 8 carriage Frecciarossa
️So you can board a full Frecciarossa in 11 minutes, from a terminus gate at Gare de Lyon, with staff checking tickets instead of using ticket barriers
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So you can board a full Frecciarossa in 11 minutes, from a terminus gate at Gare de Lyon, with staff checking tickets instead of using ticket barriers
However Frecciarossa seats are designed for short people. I’m 1m 83 tall, and the seat comes only to the base of my skull. Seat is comfortable until there though!
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However Frecciarossa seats are designed for short people. I’m 1m 83 tall, and the seat comes only to the base of my skull. Seat is comfortable until there though!
It’s smooth at 300km/h, not quite as good as a TGV though
