03/17/2011 Railways in France: timetable, train fares and route map France Railways - TGV is one of the best in the world, trains of TGV - are high-speed, comfortable and safe.
TGV connects more than 230 cities in France. Railway stations, served by the TGV - are located downtown, this distinct advantage of rail transport to the aircraft. Total, in France are 400 trains, which make 650 daily flights at an average speed of 300 km per hour.
TGV website offers the following pricing for rail service in France in the second class carriages provided booking:
Lille-Bordeaux -from 22 Euro.
Paris-La Rochelle -from 22 Euro.
Airport Charles de Gaulle Paris - Lyon- 22 Euro.
Lille-Paris -from 17 Euro.
When you order and pay for tickets on the Internet, there are three options they received:
1.When the presentation of armor with a code book in hand in France (any booking office, not necessarily the station, from where you are going);
2.In the machine;
3.On mail -to your home address.
When you select option 1 is best printed book (she comes to you via e-mail) as a whole, including booking code - cashiers explain what you want from them is very difficult, but in English they do not say. Upon receipt of tickets required to carry a card, you pay for tickets when you order.
BOOKING TICKETS AND TIMETABLE OF TRAINS:
High-speed train TGV:
http://www.tgv.com/ http://www.tgvesteuropeen.com/ http://www.idtgv.com/fr/index.php http://www.sncf.fr/ http://www.voyages-sncf.com/leisure/fr/launch/home/ http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/d Regional trains TER:
http://www.ter-sncf.com/index.asp Regional trains Transilien:
http://www.transilien.com/web/site http://idf.sncf.com/web/site/ High speed train Eurostar (London - Paris, Brussels):
http://www.eurostar.com/dynamic/index.jsp High-speed train TGV Lyria (France - Switzerland):
http://www.tgv-lyria.fr/ http://www.tgv-lyria.com High speed trains Thalys (France - Belgium - Netherlands, Germany):
http://www.thalys.com/ High speed trains Artesia (France - Italy):
http://www.artesia.eu/ High speed trains Elypsos (France - Spain):
http://www.elipsos.com/ Travel tickets travel to France - InterRail One Country Pass:
http://www.interrailnet.com/one_country_pass_france http://www.europeanrailguide.com/railpasses/index.html In the days of French railways are divided into white, blue and red.
Blue days - from noon Monday until noon Friday and from noon Saturday to 15.00 Sunday, which provide the greatest discounts.
White Days - from noon Friday to noon on Saturday and Sunday from 15.00 until noon on Monday, discounts half.
About twenty days a year are considered red when the discounts do not give a (Christmas and other holidays).
Ticket offices at railway stations, tend to fall on cash and cash daily on trains that depart in a short time. At ticket offices accept payment cards. Check tickets on the spot! If you find a bug in the ticket directly at the counter, the clerk will renew it for free, if you moved away - the same procedure will cost 2 euros.
Tickets are sold and through the ticket machines, but the machine only accepts payments by card. Buying tickets is easy: choose the language of communication with the device, where from and where you need a train, the date and time of departure, class of car, how many people, and if they have any benefit or discount card (for each person to indicate whether benefits). Tickets purchased from the machine, it is worth as much, or bought at the box office. Vending machines are bad just by selling tickets to clear the date and exact time of departure, if you need a ticket with an open date or time, you have to go to the ticket office and buy a ticket there.
Tickets must be validated. Punched all the tickets, but tickets for high-speed trains, which clearly indicated your train, the time of his departure, and your place.
Tickets are checked! If you are going to e-ticket, then the inspector considers the barcode on your ticket and may request proof of identity or produce a card, that you paid for this ticket. To exit the train, you need at the site click on the door or the side, but only when the train stopped.
At the end of the car are trash and toilet, on the light board shows it is busy or not.