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Not tried the SNCF number myself (yet) but the matter came up a few weeks ago on the Eurorailstaff Yahoo group, and someone who had used it said it worked well, and he had pdf tickets in his inbox before the call had finished. And calling France isn't expensive if you use a service like 18185...

Yes - I did when I got mine :D

Don't know about Amtrak, I'm afraid, but as far as your international coupons are concerned, in the year of your retirement, you are entitled to your full active staff allocation - less any you might have taken in the months before you retired. In the 45 months following your retirement date...

Found the answer! Ferrol to Gijon is 319km - see https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:squema_de_la_l%C3%ADnea_Ferrol-Gij%C3%B3n. I think the link does work - the smiley should be a colon!

I've finally got round to doing something about this, and, indeed, am setting off the week after next! If it all works (famous last words?), I should get to cover most of the network, and mostly in daylight. One question - does anyone know of a source for the lengths of the ex-FEVE lines? I...

Came back from Paris last week on a refurbished e300. I booked car 1 seats 51/52, which, from all the seating plans I've seen (e.g., https://www.dropbox.com/s/jsotgc97azf9fmv/Eurostar-e300-seat-plan.pdf?dl=0) have a good window view. Yet, on boarding the train, these seats lined up nicely with...

Thanks all for the further info. When I have an itinerary, I will have to work out whether avoidance of faff is worth the extra euros! Seems that Leon - Bilbao is a must. At the moment, I am thinking of doing it in that direction, but stopping overnight in Balmaseda if possible, which would...

Thanks for your helpful answer. As yours is the only one, so far, it looks like not many people have been this way lately :) I, too, have heard that the RENFE takeover hasn't been good for FEVE, and one thing that worries me a bit is getting stuck somewhere if there's a train cancellation. No...

I'm considering a trip to Spain this year to do as much of the (former) FEVE routes in the north of Spain as possible within a reasonable amount of time, maybe 10 days to two weeks. Has anyone any recent information or suggestions on a good way to do this, please? I'm aware of the FEVE Rail...

I wonder how long carnet tickets will remain valid? As is my usual practice, I bought a carnet on my way through Paris last summer, so I've always got a few in hand to ease future cross-Paris journeys. But maybe that wasn't such a good idea...

Interesting about getting a reservation only from an SNCF ticket machine. I've looked at them on numerous occasions without managing to work out how to do it - I always seem to end up at a screen which asks for some sort of card number, which I don't have!

Surely €1.50 is the TGV off-peak reservation fee if you hold an SNCF coupon? It's what I was charged (by Ffestiniog Travel) for a Thursday afternoon train Paris - Marseille, and by Nice station for a Nice - Avignon TGV (which, of course, barely uses any high-speed lines). Avignon - Paris on a...

No idea (but I'd also love to know why!) However, stopping trains so far down the platform is a relatively recent innovation; previously they did approach the station more closely, though the fence has been there since the new platform opened.

High Wycombe platform 1 (the rest of the station is OK!) Not only can you not simply cross the platform to platform 2, but the two-car train stop (and most of the trains using platform 1 are two-car I would think) is now down the far end of platform 1. If you alight from a London-bound train...

Back in the 1980s, NSE used to have a stand at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, which I worked on one year (maybe 1987). We borrowed a spare APTIS from Wimbledon so that we could sell tickets; one of the top sellers was Southfields to Zone U1 - as the manager said, "We own the local tube...

If dedicated child tickets were not held at a station, the rule was that singles would be cut straight across the middle, and returns would be cut diagonally. Presumably the idea was that the whole half single would be surrendered at the end of the journey, while only the tiny sliver across the...

Unless you want to take advantage of the museum (etc) discounts you get with a Paris-Visite card, what you actually want is a Mobilis: https://www.ratp.fr/en/titres-et-tarifs/mobilis The cheapest, zones 1 and 2, card covers all of the metro, but some of the trams are in zone 3.

My favourites (and adjacent to each other): Longfield for Fawkham & Hartley Farningham Road & Sutton-at-Hone

Bear in mind that if you are safeguarded staff, cheaper fares (e.g., £46 return in standard) are available at Eurostar stations - see this thread: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=151086 I believe that some agents (though possibly not International Rail) can also sell these fares...

If you have time on arrival at GdL, it might be worth considering purchasing a carnet for any future trip(s) :)