Thanks to the setting up of yesterday’s timetables at the SNCF, the FNAUT, National Federation of Transport Users for the Bourgogne Franche-Comté region, explained to us that it would no longer be possible from December 12 to make return trips during the day between Paris and Belfort, which was detrimental to business or sales managers who are used to meeting in Belfort during the day and returning to Paris in the evening.
SNCF explains that there was an error in interpretation, and gives details:
The first TGV that leaves from Paris at 6:52 am and who happens to Belfort-Montbéliard at 9:30 am From December 12, the terminus will be at Besançon Viotte, which makes it possible to take a TER connection.
In the new offer on December 12, the first TGV from Paris will leave a little later, at 7:20 a.m. To arrive at Belfort-Montéliarrd at 9:38 am (instead of 9:30 am currently).
The big change is that today there is a 4 hour gap between two TGVs leaving from Paris in the morning (7:22 am – and 11:22 am). At the request of elected officials, a new timing has been put in place with better readability (TGVs that leave at –h22) and above all a waiting time of only 2 hours between each TGV from Paris. To get there, a new TGV was added at 9:22 a.m. from Paris for an arrival in Belfort-Montbéliard at 11:53 a.m.
This new offer places the Rhine-Rhône line among the lines with better service.
On the other hand, with regard to the problem of college students departing from Dijon who must go to Faucogney in Haute-Saône, for the moment the TGV offer no longer allows them to make this trip, the only solution is to take TER with connections , which lengthens the duration of the trip.