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

[hopla@zug.network]

@jon hosted by "e-Voyageurs Technologies (groupe SNCF)"

Days since I last discovered yet another dedicated for-profit company within the public group: 0
*sigh*

[meganl@mas.to]

@jon I'm starting to try to plan train travel and this stuff is giving me agita...

I always had admiration for you train advocate folks...deep knowledge. But now I'm really bowled over by how long and hard you must have worked to amass the skills to pierce all this stuff...

[jon@gruene.social]

I’ve seen some pretty weird stuff on #CrossBorderRail but for the sheer “no one even thought about the passengers”-ness this is one of the most extreme cases I’ve seen. Anywhere.

[grlodi@mastodon.social]

@jon the URL looks so shady as well - at least make it a subdomain of sncf-voyageurs or something…

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@partim @jon Ah that makes sense. But they are reported with 6 digits and we (Railfinder) show them like that, so there’s some processing on their export/import then.

Starting a project after Postgres became magic helps a lot with this stuff. The liberation of ”external data? just slap it in a `text` column” without downsides :). Compared to Hafas which originally had to run on the phones of 2-3 decades ago, phew!

[jon@gruene.social]

@hopla

[jon@gruene.social]

@meganL I don’t even know if I had the right reservations today or not. If even I don’t know the railway has a serious problem.

[meganl@mas.to]

@jon Now that I read back in the thread, I can see how that would be.

At least the multilingualism must help...

Fingers crossed for you. Thanks for illuminating for folks how cross-border rail is working in practice...

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@stefanlindbohm @jon My internship back in uni was at Hacon to build a Japanese version of their Windows app. The code (obviously) assumed single byte character sets and did some formatting on it, so I built a string translation layer. That was quite fun!

[partim@social.tchncs.de]

@jon Voiture 6 is unreserved for non-Paris travellers?

[timwardcam@c.im]

@jon A couple of years after the wall came down we toured round Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary by train, as that was the preferred mode of transport for all the eastern bloc spy movies.

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 7 of 80
TER 39552
09:26 Culmont Chalindrey - Paris Est 12:16
SNCF for TER Fluo Grand Est

Train type: Alstom Coradia Bi-mode MU, 6 short carriages
️, ️ (25kV ac)
:
🦽: (step free if station allows)
🛜: ️
️: ️
🧳:
🧽:
Interrail: (needs compulsory reservation, costs €1,70)

[q@glauca.space]

@jon another fine installment in the chronicles of the Société nationale des chemins de Fuck You

[_hemmschuh@zug.network]

@jon
But if you are abonné than it's not compulsory reservation, we love french ticketing.
@12train

[jon@gruene.social]

@TimWardCam you should have bough a Trabi. Obviously!

[jon@gruene.social]

TER 39552
09:26 Culmont Chalindrey - Paris Est 12:16

Distance: 307.1km
Average speed: 108km/h

8 stops:
Langres
Chaumont
Bar-sur-Aube
Vendeuvre
Troyes
Romilly-sur-Seine
Nogent-sur-Seine
Paris Est

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#9/48.361724/3.900146

#CrossBorderRail

[jon@gruene.social]

@_Hemmschuh fuck off SNCF really. Let’s make it extra hard for irregular travellers, just the ones we need to entice to take the train!

[timwardcam@c.im]

@jon We saw plenty - they were still around.

[jon@gruene.social]

I’m too German. I can’t tolerate this sort of bullshit

[jon@gruene.social]

@drnoble I know @technicalotter knows a lot about railways. I think they’re confused why a regional train needs this!