Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 03 - 18 Feb - Ravières - Dijon - Culmont Chalindrey - Paris – Genève
New borders:
None
Borders already crossed:
Russin 🇨🇭 - Pougny-Chancy 🇫🇷
Today starts with a scenic detour en route to Paris – from Ravières via Dijon and Culmont Chalindrey onto the old main line through Troyes to Paris Est. Then an event at the Assemblée Nationale in Paris, and finally a TGV Lyria to Genève.
Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#8/47.519056/4.229736
And we have #CrossBorderRail videos too 😀
Here’s today’s intro
And Nuits-sous-Ravières has a LCD screen for train times
Revolution!
Ok, it doesn’t show the right info (yet?) - but it’s a start
#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 5 of 80
TER 91371
06:39 Nuits-sous-Ravières - Dijon Ville 07:28
SNCF for TER Mobigo
Train type: Bombardier AGC Bi-mode MU, 4 short carriages
⚡️ (1.5kV dc)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 😐 (grimy, worn inside)
Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)
TER 91371
06:39 Nuits-sous-Ravières - Dijon Ville 07:28
Distance: 89.3km
Average speed: 109km/h
3 stops:
Montbard
Les Laumes-Alésia
Dijon Ville
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#11/47.525547/4.619064
My train after this one is listed as a compulsory reservation TER
It has a 47 mins total trip, Dijon to Culmont Chalindrey with 1 stop en route
I’m semi sure this is a data error and it’s not comp res. But we’ll see
SNCF Connect can’t help me work out if it’s compulsory reservation. By now I think it just assumes everyone thinks everything is.
🤯
So @12train makes it clear
The train is COMPULSORY RESERVATION
AAAAGGGGHHHHH
It’s a regional train for a 47 minute trip
Also how Dijon shows in @12train 🤬
If TER Fluo (ie Grand Est) operates the train: Dijon Ville
If TER Mobigo (ie Bourgogne Franche Comté) operates it: Dijon
It’s the same station
And discovering this sort of total ridiculous shit is why there’s no substitute for going to the places and testing the trains on #CrossBorderRail
You only *get this* once you’ve experienced it
@jon I,m reading about this COMPULSORY RESERVATION. What is the idea behind this? Making more money or protecting something? I really don't understand this. Why not on all trains if it is important. Why this bullying off the travelers?
@julienw
But even so, you could just not sell more tickets than there are seats and let the passengers figure it out.
I guess allocated seats could help people board in an orderly manner, but in practice I don't know that specifying seats helps much beyond saying what carriage you're supposed to be in.
@bastro @jon
