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    FIP-travel in the UK

    well for the UK we can get up to 2 coupons per year, if our coupons are all used we can get 75% discount on tickets using our FIP card (the UK being the exception here, usually we only get 1 coupon per country* and max 50% discount) *unlimited free travel in Belgium, the Netherlands and...
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    FIP-travel in the UK

    the free tickets we get for eurostar don't have anything to do with FIP as such, we just get them from our boss, so in the end he pays the bill
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    FIP-travel in the UK

    up to now we get 4 single trip free tickets in 1st class to be used on Eurostar or Thalys services, yet I expect the use on Eurostar to be gone soon. Until recently we could also buy reduced rate tickets on Eurostar for family and friends, but this advantage has already ended and we can only...
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    TGV seat numbers

    I assume the seat numbering is done according to fictious compartments, 1 beeing the First 2 rows of seats closest to the door, in first class this would be seats 1 to 6, combined with the compartment number giving 11 to 16, the next 2 rows would make 21 to 26 most coaches have 7 fictional...
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    FIP-travel in the UK

    thanks for the answer! it does appear to be rather costly to have staff supervising ticket gates, the ones they are installing throughout the Netherlands don't seam to have staff around
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    Route from Brussels to Luxembourg

    the validity of a Brussels to Luxembourg ticket's route is determined by the borderpoint, on normal Brussels to Luxembourg tickets this will be Sterpenich Frontiére, thus via the direct line Brussels - Namur - Arlon - Luxembourg (lines 161 en 162), If you want to travel via Liége and Gouvy...
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    FIP-travel in the UK

    Hello Everyone, In September me and a colleague (both employees of the Belgian Railways) will be making a trip to London. To get there we will make use of our free Eurostar tickets. But during our stay in London we would like to make a side-trip to the railway museum in York. For that we...

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