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A great expedition awaiting you there Intercité 100% éco are also bookable on trainline.eu (formerly capitainetrain.com), but I suspect there are indeed no FIP fares available, you certainly can't get InterRail reservations for them. They are a completely commercial undertaking by SNCF, a...

As much as trainline.com is (rightly) vilipended here for charging booking fees, they could be a good solution in this case as they do offer international postal delivery...

The SparNightis a global (or integrated) fare, if you look at your MAV ticket it says "Fahrschein + Reservierung", german for ticket + reservation... So by doing what you did, albeit inadvertently, you were taking up four spaces on the train, two in carriage 353 and two in 355 (the ones you...

I couldn't agree more, you just need to look at what's happening on the other side of the Channel, reduced frequencies and odd timings on rural lines have lead to low patronage and lack of maintenance, in turn we are now seeing more and more line closures with buses replacing trains. This is...

The rolling stock requirements for the Channel Tunnel are published by the Intergovernmental Commission and are available ont their website here...

I doubt it will have much impact, ES will never be able to compete with a £66 turn up fare: http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=1072&dest=H443&rte=13000&tkt=SL5 I may be wrong but I would have thought most people using the rail & sail option are more price than time-sensitive.

I have used the Paris-Nice sleeper quite a few times over the last few years, the route is usually Austerlitz > Juvisy > Melun (via Evry and not the Evry-Courcouronnes loop) > Montereau (via Fontainebleau) > Dijon > Lyon Part-Dieu (quite often by the indirect route via Bourg-en-Bresse and...

I don't know about the EIP's first class, but even in 2nd class on most PKP-IC services (all except TLKs I believe) you get a free light refreshment...

There are Transilien and TER/Intercités loco-hauled services accessible with 1-5 zone tickets from all Parisian termini. From Paris Est specifically, you may get an odd BB 67400 on a La Ferté Milon suburban service. And obviously BB 15000 and CC 72100s on intercité and TER duties.

What is the logic behind this move? Was ES subsidising these fares?

iDTGV is a much older concept than Ouigo, dating back to 2004 when internet sales were still quite a novelty for SNCF. It's a separate company fully owned by SNCF which charters TGV for specific routes. In practice, these TGVs always run coupled to another TGV in conventional service and have...

No debate worth having there, T&Cs in Italy will obviously be in Italian and will most certainly hold legal value... Just as SNCF T&Cs (CGV) are only published in French: http://www.sncf.com/en/commitments/conditions-carriage-passenger If you want to play with legal terms in a foreign country...

I took the Warszawa Express back in 2014 and the Berlin-Gdynia service earlier this year. Both times the train crew changed in Frankfurt am Oder (German border station), so your tickets get checked twice: once by DB staff in Germany and (at least) once by PKP-IC staff in Poland. I didn't get...

Or the thrice weekly Paris-Moscow train! It now calls at Warsaw around midday: https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/traininfo.exe/el/777105/575873/168108/174981/80?ld=15055&protocol=https:&seqnr=2&ident=if.01122955.1465501453&date=11.06.16&station_evaId=8700011&station_type=dep&currentReferrer=tp&rt=1&

Apparently the signals involved in the accident weren't equipped with TBL1+: http://fr.metrotime.be/2016/06/08/news/accident-ferroviaire-a-saint-georges-sur-meuse-le-systeme-de-signalisation-netait-pas-equipe-du-systeme-de-securite-tbl1/ (in French)

Absolutely, direct trains run from Moscow to Sukhumi daily ( https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/traininfo.exe/el/511434/811434/715536/187290/80?ld=15037&protocol=https:&seqnr=3&ident=ba.0616037.1465306026&date=07.06.16&station_evaId=2000010&station_type=dep&currentReferrer=tp&rt=1& ), a mere 39...

The only advantage taking a TGV on this journey is that TERs are extremely unreliable in this area of France and tend to be delayed or cancelled at very short notice. Additionally, the stock tends to be in very poor condition making it hard to see out of windows at times...

Next time you could try tweeting Captain Train, they are usually quite responsive in both French and English... Tickets are usually released by SNCF around 6am (7am BST) so if you want the best prices it's worth getting up early.

Due to the delayed-opening of the 2nd stage of the LGV EST, tickets to Strasbourg and all other stations served by the new line for travel this summer will only be released on 12 May, see here: http://aide.voyages-sncf.com/ouverture-des-ventes

Travelling round SE-Europe is a rather relaxed experience so no need to plan everything in minute detail, leave some room for the unexpected! Fares are strictly distance-based and so you're best buying at the station just before boarding. You can get away with English pretty much everywhere and...