I purchased a ticket on Rail Europe web site for a trip from Paris Gare Lyon to Lausanne some time ago. I'm about ready to use this and realized what I have is a "receipt" for a ticket purchased, including Reference Number, Coach Number and Seat Number, but the document doesn't look like a "ticket". I've shown the document to staff at the Gare Carentan, and the attendant said, in so many words, " he'd never seen anything like it before, and I should just try to use it like a ticket". Are my wife and I going to be thrown off a speeding train?
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
33865 posts
Surely you are in the best position to answer that. You have the bit of paper and you are in France. Go into a SNCF Boutique - they are all over the country - sit down at the nice chair and explain your problem to the nice lady (or I have actually seen one man) behind the desk and show them your bit of paper. The sooner the better.