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The fare system in France is quite different from the British one, and is distance based for TER/IC trains and yield based for TGVs and some other ICs (the ones with compulsory reservation). The is no discount for return fares! Over 60s fares are available but require the purchase of a €50...

If you are interested in Ottoman heritage, you should be looking at the Balkans and specifically Bosnia with its Ottoman era old towns. Obviously, modern history is equally present with many scars remaining from the devastating 1990's war. I visited Sarajevo and Mostar by train in summer 2014...

The slab train from Scunthorpe to Hayange has been running for quite a few years, at least since 2007 as this article shows: http://www.ingenieur-ferroviaire.net/evenements/20070912-Visite-Corus-Hayange.doc With Hayange being the only rail rolling mill in France, most French trains are...

In France, the barriers are designed to break easily if a driver gets trapped and drives through them. Strikes me as a rather good solution as these situations will always happen sadly. There's often a few spare barrier nearby too if they get broken.

Agreed, but presumably Soyyo isn't planning to only travel to Cerbère on day one of his pass, but onwards through France in which case he may as well make use of the new arrangement.

Since January, the InterRail Global Pass is also valid in your country of residence for one outbound and one inbound journey so you should be able to use it from Girona to Cerbère too: http://www.interrail.eu/passes/how-use-your-pass/travel-your-own-country BTW, if you're planning to travel...

That's not quite true, most do but the so called "quadri-tranche" runs from Luxembourg and Strasbourg to Port-Bou and Nice... Here are all the current French sleepers: Source: http://www.sncf.com/fr/trains/intercites/reseau

As is the trend in Europe at the moment, the government announced this morning that they would not longer be funding the current night train network from the 1st July. Service will be limited to Paris - Briançon/Rodez/La Tour de Carol sleepers, the main loss being the former "Train Bleu" Paris -...

Nothing wrong with the lack of fencing, few if any countries share NR's obsession with fencing every single bit of their network. And this certainly had no influence on the events, if anything it probably made access by emergency services easier.

What are your dates of travel? Bookings are sometimes closed pending reviewed timetables...

SNCF mainline machines are made by IER: http://www.ier.com/ Regional and suburban (TER, RER and Transilien) machines are of the same basic design as the Tramlink ones pictured here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramlink#/media/File:Gb-tramlink-tickets.jpg I don't know the name of the manufacturer

Thanks EAD for sharing your knowledge of the PZB protection sytem, a great insight! Here's a cab-view video of the line: https://youtu.be/y04O09B8vy0?t=25m22s (link should begin at the entry of the concerned single line section)

I believe the UK is pretty unique having such stringent rules about cab access, it's certainly quite common to see guards up front in continental Europe.

Indeed, in July the new line will be opening with single line working, unsure yet whether this will concern the whole "Phase 2" part of the line or just the final section from the last crossover. The damaged track and bridge are currently sealed by court action and only once these seals are...

At Gare du Nord, your best bet may be to buy the Navigo Découverte cards from the Transilien (SNCF suburban service) high level ticket offices instead of the RATP (metro) ones, few tourist attractions are served by these services so I imagine there shouldn't be too much queuing. Gare de l'Est or...

Worth noting, BA is resuming the LHR-INV service from May of next year: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-34719798

No because you want to be able to sell tickets such as Brussels > MLV, Lille > MLV, etc... Only the short distance flows are restricted. EDIT: The UK equivalent would be VTEC banning travel between EDB and HYM for example.

That explains it then as Loco2 is connected to the RailEurope booking system whilst voyages-sncf and CaptainTrain are connected to the domestic SNCF system. So these tickets are not meant to be sold within France, only to international customers. I suppose this is as you say to avoid such...

Indeed, neither Voyages-SNCF.com nor CaptainTrain return any results between CDG and Marne-la-Vallée, this is because both stations are within the Île-de-France region where all transport issues including pricing are regulated by the STIF, so traditionally no tickets have been available to...

SNCF just announced during a press conference that the train derailed at 243 kph when it should have been doing 176 kph, a human error as speed control was disabled for the tests. Braking began approximatively 11 seconds or 1km too late as shown on the speed graph: The initial report can be...