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Seat reservations, Narbonne-Barcelona

​Just to confirm that this did indeed work!I kept an eye on seat availability over the last couple of days (by “pretending” to book a full-price ticket at renfe.com and get to the seat allocation page), so I could see there was still a reasonable number of seats unassigned even up to this morning: a bit cumbersome, but it seems to work.Then, on arrival at Narbonne station, I tried the SNCF ticket desk first, just to see what they would say. The lady there was very nice (albeit did not speak English), but managed to communicate that she could do nothing for me in relation to an AVE service because it is operated by Renfe (as expected). So we went back to the platform and waited. When the train came in, Renfe train staff got down to check tickets of boarding passengers. Again, language was a bit of an issue at first, but we were re-directed to another staff member who had reasonable English and understood our situation. She checked that we had valid interrail passes, and let us board imm

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Seat reservations, Narbonne-Barcelona

Thanks for thecquick reply - that’s great information - much appreciated.Is there a public way of checking how many seats are left? I would like to just check again, closer to the day, if possible. But no problem if not. 

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Trenitalia service cancellation (Gotthard tunnel), 21st Aug: what are my alternatives?

Hi -Many thanks for that quick, and very detailed, reply - much appreciated. I’ll try for an earlier routing from Paris as you suggest!Kind regards - Barry

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