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Find a seating plan for the train
you're after...
Seat Guru for trains? Maybe
not quite yet! But on this page you'll find links to train
seating plans, showing the layout of seats & sleeping berths on both domestic
and international trains for the key countries in Europe. Keeping all the
links working is difficult, so
please report any dead links.
Click the country where your train journey starts:
Can I book a specific seat?
When booking online, the Eurostar website (www.eurostar.com)
and Swedish railways website (www.sj.se) set a
best practice in letting you book a specific seat from a numbered seating plan
of their own train's seating layout. But these are the exceptions, and
most online booking sites only let you choose 'aisle' or 'window'. If you
want to book a specific seat on any other train, you'll need to book by phone,
preferably with an agency that uses the relevant country's own reservation
system. For example, if you call Rail Europe they are a subsidiary of
French Railways, they use the French Railways reservation & ticketing system and
can easily book a specific seat on a French TGV. But they can usually only
select basic options such as 'aisle' or 'window' when booking a German or
Italian or Spanish train. Conversely, German Railways UK office obviously
uses the German reservation and ticketing system, they can easily book you a
specific seat or type of seat on a German ICE, but can only access basic options
such as 'aisle' or 'window' on Eurostar or on a French or Italian train.
There's a list of UK booking agencies
here, if you really want to book a specific seat then try calling an agency
with the most relevant reservation system. Also worth knowing is that when
booking French trains online,
www.raileurope.co.uk
only gives you basic 'aisle' or 'window' options, whereas the French Railways
own site at
www.voyages-sncf.com lists a few additional options such
as 'club duo' (table for 2) or 'club quatre' (table for 4) in 1st class, 'carré'
(table for 4) in 2nd class, and 'salle haut' (top deck) & 'salle basse' (bottom
deck) on a double deck TGV Duplex. I definitely recommend the top deck on
a TGV Duplex to anyone without mobility problems!
Are we booked in the same sleeper compartment?
Berth numbering in sleepers and couchettes often
causes confusion. People with berth numbers 21 & 25 wonder if they're
really together in the same 2-bed sleeper, when yes they are! Look for the
specific sleeper train you're booked on in the list below (based on the country
in which your journey starts) or see the
generic sleeping-car berth
numbering plan on the sleepers page.
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List of train seat numbering plans, country by country...
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Domestic trains: |
Routes operated: |
Seating plan: |
More information: |
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TGV Réseau |
Lille to Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Montpelier
(although a few services now use TGV Duplex) |
click for seating plan |
More info about TGV |
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TGV Med |
Paris-Lyon-Marseille-Nice
(although most services are now TGV Duplex) |
click for seating plan |
More info about TGV |
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TGV Duplex |
Paris-Lyon-Marseille-Nice
(a few are still TGV Med)
A few Lille-Lyon-Marseille
TGVs are Duplex
|
click for seating plan |
More info about TGV |
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TGV Atlantique |
All Paris-Nantes
,Bordeaux, Lourdes, Irun TGVs |
click for seating plan |
More info about TGV |
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Corail Téoz |
Paris-Limoges-Toulouse, Bordeaux-Toulouse-Marseille-Nice |
none
avialable |
More info about Corail Teoz |
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Corail Lunéa |
French domestic overnight trains (all routes) |
couchette car berth plan |
More info about Corail Lunea |
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International
trains: |
Routes operated: |
Seating plan: |
More information: |
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Eurostar |
Paris to London |
click for seating plan |
More info about Eurostar |
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Thalys |
Paris to Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne |
click for seating plan |
More info about Thalys |
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ICE 3 |
Paris to Frankfurt |
click for seating plan |
More info about ICE |
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TGV |
Paris to Stuttgart, Munich, Luxembourg |
cars
1-4
cars 5-8 |
More info about TGV |
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Lyria TGV |
Paris to Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Basel, Zurich |
click for seating plan |
More info about Lyria |
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Artesia TGV |
Paris - Turin - Milan daytime trains |
cars
1-4
cars 5-8 |
More info about Artesia TGV |
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Artesia sleeper trains |
Paris - Florence, Rome, Milan, Venice sleepers |
click for seating plan |
More info about Artesia |
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City
Night Line sleeper trains |
Paris - Munich, Paris-Berlin sleeper trains |
Comfortline sleeping car
Couchette car
Seats car |
More info about City Night Line |
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Elipsos sleeper trains |
Paris - Madrid, Paris-Barcelona |
click for seating plan |
More info on Elipsos
trainhotels |
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Talgo |
Montpellier - Barcelona daytime trains |
click for seating plan |
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