SNCF destination labels, etc.

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In January I’m going to be in Paris for a work trip and have pencilled in a visit to Gare d’Austerlitz on a Saturday morning. I have a few questions however.

1: Is there any indication when the stopping PAZ-Orléans will be replaced with multiple units?
2: What‘s the policy for taking destination labels from the Corail trains? A few years ago a member of staff gave me one but I’m not sure what the rules/penaties are these days.
3: What is the French for ‘destination label’? Best I can come up with is carte de destination or etiquette destination, but the only results that come up are luggage tags or certain credit/loyalty cards
4: Is there any indication when the occasional Montparnasse-Le Mans Corail will be retired? If not I might pay that a visit too.

 

[signed]

destination label

What is a destination label? The placard in the door that shows the destination?

Is there any indication when the occasional Montparnasse-Le Mans Corail will be retired? If not I might pay that a visit too.

There is 2 Corail workings every day through to Rennes but under the Ouigo Train Classique brand (so it has the same interior as the Ouigo TGV), I have no idea what the TER's Corail working status is.

Is there any indication when the stopping PAZ-Orléans will be replaced with multiple units?

Probably quite soon, last news were that 32 units got ordered for the Paris trips and that they are working at least the fast and semi-fasts

 

[43303_43058]

This is a destination label (the last one I got):
Hoping to get an IC or a OUIGO Classique one this time, just wondering if staff are willing to give them over and (if not possible) what is the likelihood I could sneak one away w/o getting caught.

There is 2 Corail workings every day through to Rennes but under the Ouigo Train Classique brand (so it has the same interior as the Ouigo TGV), I have no idea what the TER's Corail working status is.

There’s 2 return working from Le Mans and Nogent-le-Rotrou to Montparnasse, just wondering if they’re going to be replaced at Dec timetable change

 

[MarcVD]

Something like this ?

 

[43303_43058]

Something like this ?

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Yep - considering swiping an Intercités or OUIGO one. Is your one bound in a book of them or just a single?

 

[Beebman]

3: What is the French for ‘destination label’? Best I can come up with is carte de destination or etiquette destination, but the only results that come up are luggage tags or certain credit/loyalty cards

I'm sure I've seen plaque de destination.

 

[MarcVD]

Yep - considering swiping an Intercités or OUIGO one. Is your one bound in a book of them or just a single?

I have just that one. Souvenir of a train trip to Greece done in 1980.

 

[StephenHunter]

I have a couple of DB ones bought from museums.

 

[The exile]

This is a destination label (the last one I got):
Hoping to get an IC or a OUIGO Classique one this time, just wondering if staff are willing to give them over and (if not possible) what is the likelihood I could sneak one away w/o getting caught.

There’s 2 return working from Le Mans and Nogent-le-Rotrou to Montparnasse, just wondering if they’re going to be replaced at Dec timetable change

If they are designed for reuse then removing them is theft.

 

[43303_43058]

If they are designed for reuse then removing them is theft.

Yeah, but technically so are the LNER ones, which are either taken by enthusiasts or thrown in the bin

 

[CC 72100]

If they are designed for reuse then removing them is theft.

Indeed - whilst I'd love one, I can recognise these aren't items which are single use and thus aren't for taking, in comparison to the old window label stickers you used to get on HSTs!