Auto-train
Posted: Mon 02 Jul 2018 17:32
SNCF are apparently running a car-on the-train service from Perpignan to Paris, and vice-versa, over the summer season, three times a week. I have done it a dozen times from various places, latterly Narbonne, over the decades, and often wondered why I haven’t done it more.
The deal is that you drop off your car at a dodgy railway siding at St Charles on D1 and get a shuttle to Perpignan to get a passenger TGV to Paris, and then collect your car from a dodgy railway siding near gare de Lyons on D2. Or else you drop it on D0 and then find your own way home, travel on a TGV on D1, and pick your car up when you arrive in Paris.
I’ve described it in a downbeat way because it isn’t very glamorous. But it can be a lot quicker, and less tedious, and even cheaper, than flogging up the autoroute.
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The deal is that you drop off your car at a dodgy railway siding at St Charles on D1 and get a shuttle to Perpignan to get a passenger TGV to Paris, and then collect your car from a dodgy railway siding near gare de Lyons on D2. Or else you drop it on D0 and then find your own way home, travel on a TGV on D1, and pick your car up when you arrive in Paris.
I’ve described it in a downbeat way because it isn’t very glamorous. But it can be a lot quicker, and less tedious, and even cheaper, than flogging up the autoroute.
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