Friday, July 15, 2022
There are after 50 years in which international visitors have been able to travel by train at will along the French Riviera and into the Alpes-Maritimes, the Interrail tickets are now not valid in on many trains in southeastern France.
PACA, the regional rail enterprise running Transport Express Régional (TER) services in the Provence-Alpes-Maritimes-Côte d’Azure area, says that passes issued by Interrail – and its worldwide variant, Eurail – are no longer welcome on its trains.
The ban covers the coastal corridor from Marseille via Toulon, Cannes and Nice to Monaco and the Italian border town of Ventimiglia. In addition, regional trains from Lyon to Marseille, serving Avignon and Arles, are off limits. The Interrailers can travel on high-speed TGV trains on these lines – but only with advance reservation and payment of a supplement.
Some of the most spectacular railways in the country will require passholders to buy regular tickets. They include the line from Marseille to Gap and Briançon, Cannes to Grasse and Nice into the mountains towards Turin in Italy.
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