I know this is #CrossBorderRail, and yes, it involves France... BUT get this
Imagine you want to go late evening from Bellegarde 馃嚝馃嚪 to Gen猫ve 馃嚚馃嚟
The last regular train is 22:07
But there is a 23:02 TGV... but you're not allowed on it
Do people just take that anyway I wonder?
And I maybe, just about, can understand this no local passengers on long distance trains thing *if* there are other trains. But last train of the day, to provide an extra connection? Surely that'd make sense? #CrossBorderRail
@jon even if there are other trains. Discriminating on which types of passengers you allow is a slippery slope I'm not willing to start down.
@quixoticgeek Officially DB has a policy like this in a few places - you are not meant to take ICEs from Berlin Hbf to S眉dkreuz. But no one would care if you did. But I'd wager SNCF would be extra nasty to anyone boarding in Bellegarde.
@jon@gruene.social @quixoticgeek@social.v.st i do this somewhat frequently in Hamburg, too, and I've never even got a reaction for it
@darkphoenix @jon but you have a magic card of forgiveness from DB
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @jon@gruene.social and how would they know that?
@jon SNCF needs to get a fucking grip. Their active hostility towards passengers is damaging public transport across Europe.
@quixoticgeek @jon if you think #SNCF is bad, then you haven't been a commuter with #DB...
@kkarhan @quixoticgeek and having lived a decade in Germany, and the last 12 months in France, I鈥檇 take German railways over French ones every single time. Really.
@quixoticgeek Yes. Pretty much all the major problems with long distance rail in Europe stem from problems with SNCF's attitude, and the impact this has either directly or more indirectly on its neighbours.
