Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 03 - 18 Feb - Ravières - Dijon - Culmont Chalindrey - Paris – Genève

[jon@gruene.social]

@smveerman yes. But why if I book a ticket for it, is it asking me to choose a seat? Maybe I’m allowed to not do this, and I didn’t go through with the booking (obviously). At the very least it’s not well done.

[smveerman@zug.network]

@jon The combination of train number and having no way to make a train only part of the way reservation only are reasons I guess. It's also a solution to a non-existing problem.

[julienw@pouet.chapril.org]

@bastro
I think she basic idea is to have everybody bring able to sit down?

@jon

[jon@gruene.social]

@julienw @bastro it’s a REGIONAL TRAIN. You might rather get to your destination and stand. Better that than not getting there at all!

Ah sorry. I forgot. Who’d RELY on a regional train in France?

[julienw@pouet.chapril.org]

@jon
Yeah I know
@bastro

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 6 of 80
TER 39593
08:19 Dijon Ville - Culmont Chalindrey 09:06
SNCF for TER Mobigo, TER Fluo Grand Est

Train type: Alstom Coradia Bi-mode MU, 6 short carriages
️ (1.5kV dc, 25kV ac)
:
🦽: (step free)
🛜: ️
️: ️
🧳:
🧽:
Interrail: (accepted) or (needs compulsory reservation, costs €1,70) - I don’t know yet!

[jon@gruene.social]

TER 39593
08:19 Dijon Ville - Culmont Chalindrey 09:06

Distance: 76.5km
Average speed: 98km/h

2 stops:
Is-sur-Tille
Culmont-Chalindrey

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#10/47.556140/5.234985

#CrossBorderRail

[thias@mastodon.social]

@jon I hate to be that guy, but it’s Pougny-Chancy.

Not to be confused with Pouilly, there was a station in Saint-Genis Pouilly on the former line from Collonges - Fort l'Écluse to Gex and then Nyon.

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@jon @12train Aaalso.. why does SNCF use a different train number in their own channels than they report to international timetables? The leading 8 is only included in their own systems.

(It’s marked as compulsory reservation in Merits too)

[jon@gruene.social]

@thias then it’s wrong in the European Commission’s list I’ll correct it.

[jon@gruene.social]

@stefanlindbohm @12train that extra number depends on the Région I think? But it’s not consistently applied.

[corentin@masto.bike]

@jon As with pretty much everything in France (not only trains!), it's only compulsory reservation if the train manager decides to enforce it, if they bother checking tickets at all that is

[thias@mastodon.social]

@jon https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_de_Pougny_-_Chancy?wprov=sfti1#Desserte

[deadliftbear@mas.to]

@jon what’s the difference between TER and TER fluo?

[technicalotter@glammr.us]

@jon paying for seat reservations?!?!

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@stefanlindbohm @jon @12train Can Merits even do six digit train numbers?

[jon@gruene.social]

@thias oh I don’t doubt you. Just my source was wrong.

[jon@gruene.social]

@deadliftbear Fluo is what it’s called in Grand Est. Obviously!

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@jon @12train Is it related to operations maybe? Like which operations centre it runs under..? It’s a crazy pattern so now I’d be curious to now

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@partim Yep, it exists. Lokaltog in DK was the first example that popped up.

@jon @12train