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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 06:17 AM
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French Train Map

I have been looking at the different websites and cannot find a map that shows the small stops along the various lines. Am I missing something? I can put in two towns and they will give me the trains and schedules, but I can't figure out what other towns to put in. For example, I can put in Narbonne to Beaune and it gives me schedules, but I would like to know if there are other towns where we could stop.

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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 06:32 AM
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Try https://www.sncf.com/en and enter your itinerary . Also a very detailed map here https://www.sncf-reseau.com/sites/de...OUR_LE_WEB.PDF
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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 06:40 AM
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I remember when I was a little boy, there was a complete train map on a panel next to the toilet on the trains. It completely fascinated me, but I don't think it will be of much help in this case. You can obviously trust Coco.
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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 06:44 AM
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I remember that too Kerouac !
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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 07:02 AM
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Official maps:
https://www.sncf-reseau.com/sites/de...OUR_LE_WEB.PDF
https://www.sncf-reseau.com/fr/carte...rre-francais-0
https://latitude-cartagene.com/flipb...las-sncf-2019/

If you want to know the inermediate stops of trains along a certain line, you better use
https://www.ter.sncf.com/auvergne-rhone-alpes
choose the region you are interested in (top left hand corner: changer de region)
and then the line you are interested in (click on horaires et trafic, then on fiches horaires and finally on the line you need, for example 05 Avignon - Lyon in the Region Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes)

Or load down https://fahrplan.oebb.at/bin/query.exe/en?, enter starting point and destination, then details for all and click on the name of the train (for example TER 17810) at the right side.
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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 07:20 AM
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Can anybody read the station names on
https://www.sncf-reseau.com/sites/de...OUR_LE_WEB.PDF ?
I can zoom as much as I like, without success.!

But frankly, I'm not particularly surprised to see a completely unintelligible document published by a more or less governmetal office like SNCF.

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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 07:30 AM
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And why is that, neckervd? Most of the governmental offices in France publish totally excellent visuals.
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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 08:07 AM
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I suggest you need glasses neckervd. I just zoomed in 200% and could reaad the stops just fine.
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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 08:20 AM
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Me, too, heti.
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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 01:05 PM
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I've found it easy to find intermediate stops on the DB website, it's just a button you hit when you ask for a routing, to show intermediate stops. www.bahn.de

I know I've seen some intermediate stops on the SNCF website but I forget how to do that easily, or if it only works if you buy a ticket or what, I don't recall. I just find DB easier for that.

I have a map of all the major rail routes in France and Europe which is very useful. It's a plasticized thing that was done by Streetwise which is out of business. But it doesn't show all the small ones, it's just good for general trip planning.
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Old Jan 30th, 2020 | 01:18 PM
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Google Maps will show you the route and stops (although it doesn't seem that this link is exactly doing it here), if you put the right times in. You have to remember that trains with the same origin and destination may take completely different routes, or the same routes but with different intermediate stops, at different times.
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Old Jan 31st, 2020 | 02:43 AM
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HETISMIJ 2 and STCIRC
You are right. Today it works. Yesterday I couldn't even read words like Cherbourg.
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Old Jan 31st, 2020 | 03:14 AM
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I confess I had to try a couple of times, neckervd, to make it work.
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Old Jan 31st, 2020 | 04:01 AM
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You just need patience to let it download enough to make it readable. Unlike at our old house where we had highspeed fibre internet here we are on old copper connections and it is pretty slow so it takes a while.
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Old Jan 31st, 2020 | 07:59 AM
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I also use the Deutsch Bahn site to find intermediate stops.
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Old Feb 1st, 2020 | 10:22 AM
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Thank you everyone! The sncf site with the tiny print (yes, you have to give it time to download) was the one.
I hope this thread help someone else looking for the same info!!
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