My wife & I are on a train now travelling between Como, Italy & Basel, Switzerland. We bought reservations because they were required for this train, or so we thought. The aisle in our car is packed with people standing up. There is no way to get up to go to the WC, etc. I was under the impression that you had to get a reservation even to get on the train. Since one of my future reservations for train travel never arrived in the mail, I figured I would not be able to get on the high-speed train and would have to book a slower train that would delay my arrival for 4 hours. Now that I see that these people are allowed to stand up for duration of the trip without reservations, I was thinking of doing the same for my trip between Narbonne, France & Barcelona Spain, since the reservation I bought never arrived. Finally, my question ... . Are passengers with tickets and no reservations generally allowed to stand in the aisles for the duration of their trip even though reservations are required?
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