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Hi Everyone,
I have a question - does anybody know how many trains depart from Chambery to Paris at 10:20 am on Saturdays? Thing is I booked a train and my friends booked a train and it seems their train number is different than mine so it seems there are two trains departing from a 50,000 people town to Paris on Saturday morning  Or is it just one train with two different train IDs? The last thing I want is to travel on a different train than my friends, it's a long trip. SNCF doesn't help much, their site lists two separate numbers. A very nice lady from Chambery's tourism office thinks it's just one train but I was wondering if anyone of you have some kind of first hand experience here.
Thank you!
Tom
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The printed timetable I have shows just the one train - 9240. The French language SNCF website lists two trains 9240 & 6964. The English language SNCF website lists one train 6964.
Quite a mess, but I suspect there is only one train, by why the different numbers? - no idea.
You could try the infolignes website on Friday and enter both train numbers and see what it says. Ah - I've just done that and it says the 6964 is the Annecy train and the 9240 is the Milan train. I'm guessing (NB just a guess) that these are two eight coach trains that they hook up at Chambery for onward travel to Paris.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Is it possible that two trains from different places converge in Chambery and join together, and then continue on to paris as a single unit?
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The TGVs from Annecy and Milan join at Chambery before going onto Paris, hence two different numbers, but in fact the same train, exactly as kieranm suggested
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I would just add another comment for the OP.
The fact that you have tickets on two different train numbers would suggest that you are on the Annecy train and your friends are on the Milan train - or vice versa.
If you want to sit together for the almost three hour journey you have the problem that all TGV tickets have a seat number. Normally not a problem as there are usually empty seats to be found, but a winter return from Chambery on a Saturday might be busier that the mid week trains I use. On an eight coach TGV you can walk all the way from one end of the train to the other to find some free seats, but if they hook up two eight coach trains you won't be able to get from one part to the other - the engines are in the way.
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| ... but if they hook up two eight coach trains you won't be able to get from one part to the other - the engines are in the way. |
Very good point... that's exactly what they do
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Hi all,
BIG thanks for your help!!!
Cheers,
Tom
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