I Took The OTHER High Speed Train From Brussels to Paris...

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France's TGV is an alternative way to travel between Belgium and France, providing links to the South and East of France from Brussels via the suburbs of Paris. I have been meaning to do this service for a while, though Interrail seat reservation difficulties meant that I had to do this earlier than planned... find out how good this alternative high speed train is in this video!
Journey details:
Date of Travel - December 2023
Operator - TGV inOui (SNCF)
Origin - Brussels Midi/Zuid
Destination - Marne-la-Vallee Chessy TGV (Disneyland Paris)
Price - €113/£96.61/$122.64 (Fixed first class single, however I was on an Interrail including the €32 reservation fee)
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@dasy2k1 3 ай бұрын

The gated area is because it comes under the same rules as airside in an airport nobody can be in that area unless they have gone through security and passport control... It's the same at St Pancras although there are no gates across the track. Instead the fence between the domestic and international tracks just continues until after they diverge

@nicolas7676 3 ай бұрын

The same thing is present at Lille Europe with no gates across the tracks

@Furitokama 3 ай бұрын

@@nicolas7676 Same at Paris Gare du Nord. There are no gates across the tracks.

@scotty241991 3 ай бұрын

Did you notice the double number in the armrest? It is used that if you reserve a forward facing "61" seat, and the train is scheduled backwards, you would still have a forward facing "61" which is the original backward facing "21" seat. They switch the numbers. Genious simple solution.

@olivieronrails 3 ай бұрын

That feature’s been disabled years ago

@tee.f.n 3 ай бұрын

5:16 Platforms 1&2 have the gates to keep the platforms “sterilised”. Only people going to/from the EU and authorised staff have access to the platforms. When the gates are open, a member of security staff are present on both platforms. I believe there may be plans to allow access to P1/2 for Eurostar services between Brussels and Paris, and signage is present on the station concourse allowing this but does not happen. For services from Amsterdam to London via Brussels, these use Platform 3. Platform 3 has floor to ceiling gates in the middle of the platform to sterilise it when required, and security staff are on both ends of the platform to prevent unauthorised access.

@itmkoeln 3 ай бұрын

This is the answer. The Eurostar (blue-yellow station in Brussels Midi are maintained like an international airport.) You can't forget you go through the French or Belgian (respectively) and UK boarder if you use Lille Europe and or Brussels Midi (eurostar)

@raakone 3 ай бұрын

For similar reasons, the train station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ALSO has "caged" tracks, for the Amtrak train to Washington and Oregon states in the USA. You go through airport-style baggage checks and American Immigration before you even get onto the train, they call this "Preclearance" over here.

@lemonofish869 3 ай бұрын

13:23 I once saw a TGV leaving the station with the track-facing driver cabin door open. It was wild.

@Noelegamer 3 ай бұрын

I saw a tgv driving with an open door just the day before yesterday

@ParisCycling 3 ай бұрын

@01:09 There's nothing more Belgian than a Tintin panel next to a Quick ad.

@Desi365 3 ай бұрын

There should be additional racks in rhe middle of the carriage. On the Duplexes , there is even space in the back, the dead end, if you see what i mean.

@maverick6631 3 ай бұрын

Can't believe the practice of uncoupling two sets with the doors released is allowed! Absolute no-no in the UK.

3 ай бұрын

Same in Belgium, that could not be.

@bagoo5215 3 ай бұрын

strange i have never seen that in France too. Always doors closed.

@ovdigitaal 3 ай бұрын

Nice video

@camotech1314 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for including the coupling mate 😊

@yagi3925 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the mating 😊😇

@kevDea 3 ай бұрын

8:20 yes exactly both those reasons.

@HerrGru 3 ай бұрын

5:11 i think its for safety and because of the eure Tunnel 👍 great Video

@tjoeker680 3 ай бұрын

fyi, while the Reseau sets have 3kv which means they could technically operate in both Belgium and Italy, in reality they can't. The trainsets visiting Belgium don't have the safety systems for Italy and visa versa.

@christophe77700 3 ай бұрын

nice video. however, north of Paris you have a better chance of crossing the Oise than the Seine. I didn't know that part of the train was decoupled for Strasbourg, which means that this part goes in the other direction.

@DanHayward-cv8zv 3 ай бұрын

great video

@kevanhubbard9673 3 ай бұрын

I think that you can do that journey via local trains too but when you get to Lille you have to use Flanders station rather than Europe and probably change elsewhere to get to Paris guessing about 4 hours that way.

@ositomaron 3 ай бұрын

Yes, you can. Bruxelles to Tournai in Belgium (local sncb train), Tournai to Lille Flanders (local sncb train), Lille Flanders to Amiens (sncf TER train), Amiens to Gare du Nord (sncf TER train). I have not done it but know off hand which routes / trains to take. I have done Paris to Amiens which is about an hour and a half.

@Hepad_ 13 күн бұрын

There is a TER between Lille Flandres and Paris Nord

@oslo162 3 ай бұрын

i travelled into the same tgv who going to Strasbourg but there's one thing that i can't figure out why sncf use 2 tgv on the both concern lines Marseille/Strasbourg from Brussels-midi directly? being that from Brussels-midi to Lille Europe the both units so 16 cars in total drive empty mainly in first class, i travelled a multiple time from Brussels-midi to Lille in first class certains of these trains drive almost empty or course i removed 1- 2 first class coach of these units because they're reserved for skyteam pax only who going to CDG, but about the Eurostar terminal razor bird track cage that i'm calling that everytime that my train drive beside of the Eurostar terminal of Brussels is quite unique because even in Paris gare du nord there's no secutity gate into the track into the Eurostar terminal of Paris

@daanwolters3751 3 ай бұрын

You do know that sncf owns the fast majority of thalys as well, and practically it is the same company/has a monopoly on the route. Ever since the line opened the capacity remained the same, but the prices have skyrocketed.

@dufonrafal 3 ай бұрын

The “Botox” project will only be a refresh (not a refurbishment) of the current 53 Reseau sets to extend their lifetime by a few years to wait for the delayed TGV M.