Travel by Train

snavetrauts · Post by **snavetrauts** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:08 am

Hi folks.. for various reasons I may need to travel down the length of France with the bike BY TRAIN.... does anyone know if this is possible... what train lines where etc etc etc?

Cheers
Stuart

throttlemeister · Post by **throttlemeister** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:55 am

www.autozug.de

snavetrauts · Post by **snavetrauts** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:05 am

Throttlemeister... thanks for the site... but I am looking for French connections North to South of france?

cheers
Stuart

Steve W · Post by **Steve W** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:13 am

Stuart

Try here
http://www.raileurope.co.uk/frenchmotorail/

Steve

Ruffy · Post by **Ruffy** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:03 pm

Just to add to the thought of taking a bike on the train,i'm quite interested myself so i gave them a ring this morning and was shocked to be quoted £500 to nice and the return in a weeks time at a SPECIAL PRICE of £350 to calais,i didn't book it!!:(

Ruffy · Post by **Ruffy** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:04 pm

Just to add to the thought of taking a bike on the train,i'm quite interested myself so i gave them a ring this morning and was shocked to be quoted £500 to nice and the return in a weeks time at a SPECIAL PRICE of £350 to calais,i didn't book it!!:(

BlueBoxer · Post by **BlueBoxer** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:18 pm

I used the Calais to Narbonne service a year or two back. If you go with another bike, it's the same price as a car and 4 people. It was around £500 single for the bikes and 4 people in a private cabin, with no sink.

It's basic. Think very old carriages, and 70's British Rail Buffet bar. The Calais route is ran as a charter service by an English company.

A friend often uses the Paris to SOF service, as it's ran by French rail, and is a standard timetables service, and can be a lot cheaper, but you need to get to Paris.

I can try and dig out more info this evening if anyone is interested.

Ruffy · Post by **Ruffy** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:44 pm

I forgot to mention that the more that travel the price stays the same,but they don't supply the 2 birth couchettes any longer so it'll have to be the 6 birth cabin,if you can get that many bikers to go the price isn't to much really

PBBoxer · Post by **PBBoxer** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:48 pm

I went by autozug last year and it was bloody brilliant
Went from Dusseldorf to munich and back to dortmund.
Really effective way of busting the miles to teh decent roads and still making good time, without having to spend money on accomm etc for 2 nights also

winger · Post by **winger** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:14 pm

Come to think of it, who the hell wants to waste their time riding a motorbike!!!

bikemad99 · Post by **bikemad99** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:32 pm

I hear you can go long distances on them hairy plane things!!!!

PBBoxer · Post by **PBBoxer** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:33 pm

Train:

Especially given as blasting down to austria in a day knackers your tyres with 1000 plus miles (1100 from here to Lofer) of centre wear, Would rather get to the decent roads without it.

winger · Post by **winger** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:13 pm

1000 miles to good roads??,some of the best roads you'll ever ride are in northern France,my trips across the channel on a bike are into 3 figures and i still haven't ridden all of e'm.

But i can understand the train thing, with all the bloody daft bikes being built!!,were's Chris!!!

PBBoxer · Post by **PBBoxer** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:16 pm

Sorry I didnt mean there arent great roads within a very short distance of Calis etc, but in my trip I went to the Austrian Alps and we did the trip becuase it saved us 2 night b and b costs and also covered about 1200 miles in total, saving wear and tear. Made sense travelling whilst asleep

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