Advice needed on motorail in France

[JJ55]

Hi all,
We are hoping to do a tour of the French Rivera next spring in our VW campervan.
We found a site called 'Motorail' which has a route from Paris to nice which seems great as we can cut some driving out, but we are not sure if it accepts Campers. It looks like it's just cars.

Has anybody taken their motor home on one of these services & is it worth doing over driving directly there.

Thanks in advance

[chopper602]

As far as I'm aware these rail services are purely for cars

[sjg]

Paris-Nice would be Auto-Train: https://autotrain.uk.voyages-sncf.com/en/

Page 11 has size info: http://en.voyages-sncf.com/media/pdf/uk/Guide_Auto...

Looks like you'll be OK going as a Large Size Vehicle but definitely worth calling to check first.

[JJ55]

Great thanks for that

[ColinM50]

Having read that website, their idea of a large vehicle is Renault Scenic size and I doubt very much that they'd accept a VW campervan.

Another more relevant point is that you've got to deliver your campervan to Paris and then make your own way to the destination on a different train or flight. The car train doesn't take passengers. I had a couple of my employees do this when I was working in Toulouse and the only sensible train they could catch stopped all stations and took about twelve hours, so I'd suggest you check how you'd get to the destination station. Also if there's four of you it could come out very expensive.

[sjg]

I read it as you need to fit within 1.9 metres between outsides of tyres, and 2.5m wide overall. Every VW Transporter-based camper should manage that (a T6 is only just over 1.9m body width, tyres are less - and older models are smaller) unless it's on silly big wheels. The division between standard and large is just whether it'll fit on the double-decker part.