Really SNCF, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
I’m sick of this shit. Sick of it
I HAVE TICKETS FOR MY WHOLE ROUTE. Tickets Lyon P D-Tournus, and Tournus-Nuits sous Ravières. Booked that way because each region’s reduction cards aren’t fully compatible
And now the train manager tells me having two tickets like this ISN’T ALLOWED, and he could fine me. He didn’t because I explained, but he wasn’t amused
@jon next time, you could try to show only one ticket at the time (Lyon-Tournus before Tournus, Tournus-Nuits sous Ravières after Tournus). I did this in Belgium a very long time ago.
@PGLux@jon AuRA is easily the worst in terms of not wanting to work with others. Can't count how much things they've killed, including the Bordeaux/Lyon TER that Nouvelle-Aquitaine wanted to set up to replace the discontinued Intercity line.
@PGLux@jon Historically you could get two separate tickets for one trip, but you would need to get out of the train to punch the second ticket at the station where it started. Bothersome really. But otherwise if you got checked after you started the second segment you would be deemed to not have a valid ticket.
@PGLux@jon only if the e.g. second segment was a connecting train. Well that's how it was back then anyway. Nowadays you hardly even need to punch them anymore.
@wrzlbrnft I told him I’d step down onto the platform in Tournus and get on again if I had to. Then he turned all SNCF and started mansplaining. But jeez I hate this setup. This crap is in no one’s interests.
Not just France, @tommrazek. There is (was?) a similar restriction in Germany inhibiting combinations of so called "hopper tickets" (one for A>B and one for B>C to get from A to C). At least, it used to be forbidden some years ago. @jon
@astronav@tommrazek I had tickets for all parts of the trip. Just not one ticket. I explained why, and it was fine. (I’d changed my plan, started in a different place, and bought the extra bit. No fraud)
@jon Same for the IC Amsterdam - Brussels. Amsterdam - Noorderkempen (covered by subscription within the Netherlands) and Noorderkempen - Brussels separately. Some do get cynical when they see this construction though, but never have I ever had issues with it. That will be different if I'd be on the faster/directer service which does not stop in Noorderkempen. For the particular faster train which is to be introduced in 2024, I heard from within NMBS that plans exist to prohibit domestic voyages (like Thalys), thus effectively banning splitting tickets after the border, but only in Belgium... It's hard to believe, as NMBS would supposedly have to remove one current train to make this service possible. That sounds a bit like 'ouigo replaces recular tgv'.
@roye7777777 I’ve done that Noorderkempen split as well - never any problem. I can’t see they’re going to get away with national prohibitions on these trains - it’d play right into the hands of their private sector critics.
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