Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@jon AFAIK the only way for third parties to sell any TER is through SNCF. So whatever they have is what third parties (who are connected to SNCF Connect API’s) will sell.

[jon@gruene.social]

@stefanlindbohm is there a API for Grand Est TERs?

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@jon I doubt it. All goes through Connect from what I know.

(For third parties - obviously there are integrations used between the involved parties. But those might potentially be infeasible technically for a reseller to use.)

[jon@gruene.social]

@stefanlindbohm but how does a SNCF ticket office sell it? There must be data on those trains in SNCF systems?

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@jon It might be sharing of the tariff data and SNCF issuing tickets for it independently? No third party can do that.

@jeanbaptistemarie Maybe you know if there are API’s resellers can use to connect directly to the régions? Or is it all through Connect/PAO?

[jon@gruene.social]

@stefanlindbohm @jeanbaptistemarie or is there a Grenze station in Connect data but their search is just too crap to find which Grenze that Bettembourg is beyond?

[smveerman@zug.network]

@jon oh, Bastogne! The station building of Bastogne Sud still has a waiting room open for passengers (that now are waiting for the bus).

[jon@gruene.social]

Shit show of a railway. The TER to Luxembourg didn’t wait 1 min for the incoming TER from Strasbourg.

[jon@gruene.social]

Thanks for funding this, EU!

Could you maybe also tell SNCF how to organise an effing timetable?

[stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social]

@jon Oh right, that might be why Connect fails to create a ticket. It might be looking for a tariff for Bettembourg frontier > Bettembourg, finding none and thus failing to create a price. While the région is using an inventory system (the one that creates tickets) that knows to just skip that segment.

We don’t integrate directly with SNCF Connect, but if it is possible to select border points in the API it might be possible as a reseller to get a ticket that way.

@jeanbaptistemarie

[jon@gruene.social]

So the plan now: blag my way onto a TGV (with Interrail), get to Thionville and bike from there to Rumelange

[sobex@social.sciences.re]

@jon Already spray painted ?

[jon@gruene.social]

Ok. Got the TGV. So now I’ve got to bike Thionville - Rumelange instead of Bettembourg - Rumelange. I might yet manage all this today

[jon@gruene.social]

No idea about the data. Let’s bike to Rumelange Luxembourg

[smveerman@zug.network]

@jon Good luck, it is about 150 meters uphill from Thionville

[jon@gruene.social]

Volmerange

[jon@gruene.social]

I think this wasn’t the #CrossBorderRail

[pseudomonas@mastodon.social]

@jon I'd love to imagine someone placing that 30 metre stretch of track carefully straddling a border, presumably just to troll you.

[jon@gruene.social]

@pseudomonas sadly it’s about 200m from the border!

[pseudomonas@mastodon.social]

@jon So. close but no entry on your database.