From Bordeaux to Marseille by SNCF Intercités

[@BengtHansves]

Nice video ! The factory with the white and red chimney muste be the one in this video... kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoSXZHytd6tjq68

[@felixonrails]

Yes, how interesting, you are right - excellent catch! Somehow KZbin withheld your comment and I just saw it now somewhere in the recent comment.

[@SimplyRailway]

A French classic! Good video Felix, keep up the good work 💪

[@lamontcranston4436]

These trains are fantastic and so comfortable by today’s standards.

[@xavierthomas8311]

Merci pour cette belle vidéo bien filmée et variée. Amicalement.

[@sbdiaries]

Wow such a great iconic sncf train 🚆. A wonderful journey you had in France 🇫🇷. Thanks for showing us 😀 and greetings from England 🇬🇧 Simon and Beth ❤🙋

[@felixonrails]

Many thanks from Switzerland 🇨🇭😊

[@hagmax1531]

Booking early in advance its quite easy to get a 31€ offer. Sometimes there's even 27,50€ or 23,50€ offers and that's so cheap for a 600+km trip! Love it. Almost not worth it wasting an interrail travellers day if it's the only train you take that day.

[@sachatrin2981]

Great video! It was fun seeing the variety of coaches. Just so you know, this is not representative of all the Intercités services. The two biggest ones (Paris - Orléans - Limoges - Toulouse and Paris - Clermont-Ferrand) use solely Téoz renovated coaches (which are still getting old), and offers a more streamlined Corail experience. Nantes - Bordeaux and Nantes - Lyon use brand new Coradia Liners trains (similar to the Regiolis used on the Léman Express), and some lines even use Regional Rolling stock, such as the Clermont - Béziers service. But overall it's pretty bland compared to the InOui services.

[@nashorn9745]

There was probably a change in consist, that's why the seat reservation didn't line up with the one from the booking. SNCF is rolling out Wi-Fi to these trains when the car is overhauled you can spot the cars with Wi-Fi by the antennas on the roof. The corail is a verry nice carriage to travel in and verry reliable. Don't buy EMU's as a replacement your neighbors in Switzerland could tell you stories. First came the RABe 503 which had a buch of problems when they were delivered and took a few years to get fixed. Then came the RABe 502 where delivered 6 years late with even more problems took about 5 more years to get them working reliably. SBB goes and buys the RABe 501 guess what they don't work reliably to, but SBB is way quieter about them they don't need another "Pannenzug".

[@duncancurtis5108]

Hey at least the toilette is still the classic hole in the floor plus the giant red brake handle by the rear door. The seats are wide but its better than the cramped modern units. We've done Paris to Le Mans.

[@fiachragibbons4779]

Bravo Felix ! J'aime bien votre sens de l'humour... c'est bien le vecu ... et vous avez raison. Comme disent les anglais, they are taking the piss...

[@aduh95]

At 8:20, you say something about booking the reservation through SNCB rather than Interrail. Is it still something possible? I can't seem to find the option on the SNCB website.

[@felixonrails]

There is a special link I think that you can find on Interrails website. Try this one www.b-europe.com/EN/Booking/Pass#TravelWish

[@aduh95]

@@felixonrails thanks for your answer, that link seems to cover only Eurostar trains, e.g. it doesn’t let me select Marseille nor Bordeaux. That is consistent with what I read on the Interrail website that the only way to pay a reservation without fees is from a French train station, I guess SNCB no longer offers this service for SNCF trains.

[@felixonrails]

Sorry, wrong link travel.b-europe.com/Eurail-GE/en/booking-tgv#TravelWish

[@plinefr]

Je prends une dizaine de fois par an ce train de bout en bout. Les sièges Corail malgré leur grand age sont effectivement toujours aussi confortables. Par contre le wifi qui est systématiquement annoncé ne fonctionne quasiment jamais. Six trains par jour me semble bien faible pour une ligne qui relie 3 agglo de plus d'un million habitants. A Marseille correspondance très mal aménagée avec le train pour Briancon qui décolle quelques minutes après l'heure d'arrivée théorique du Bordeaux Marseille (==> 2 heures d'attente pour le train suivant).

[@sm6allegro]

Judging by the wide variety of interiors it could've been a back-up train

[@felixonrails]

I don't think so. The Intercités Marseille - Bordeaux is Corail only and SNCF scraps together any Corail they still have and that isn't rusted away yet. But probably the booking system assumed a different consist and a few carriages may have been changed.

[@Unicalnetwork]

seems like l'assistant is no longer availible

[@felixonrails]

yeah, well that was short lived advice. 🫠

[@Unicalnetwork]

@@felixonrails will go on that train from tls to carcassone, so thanks for the video

[@fiachragibbons4779]

mais sncf connect reste un catastrophe ambulant @@felixonrails