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   Oliver Blanthorn (bovine3dom@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 22:47:42 JST Oliver Blanthorn

   • Jon Worth

   More frustrating reporting on #CrossBorderRail on the Nice -> Cuneo line.

   Nice -> Breil is closed due to track work, SNCF runs replacement buses between them but no trains between Breil and Tende. SNCF won't run trains again for a year.

   Shop owners understandably frustrated, some talking of closing.

   But what the article doesn't tell you is that Trenitalia runs four (almost empty) trains a day in each direction along the line. You just can't buy tickets for them

   https://www.nicematin.com/vie-locale/lull-ceramique-contrainte-de-fermer-boutique-959892

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 22:47:41 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     @bovine3dom Maybe the trains need to be kept a secret from the French press lest people get ideas whether it's still a top priority to block them at the border for vague reasons of security/immigration.

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     Oliver Blanthorn (bovine3dom@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 22:47:42 JST Oliver Blanthorn

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     How expensive would it really be to bribe the Italians to get out of bed 20 minutes later and to get them to accept French tickets?

     And what would it take for the local paper to notice that this supposedly closed dead railway has eight mysterious ghost trains going up and down it every day