France

The SNCF (“Société National des Chemins de Fer”) is the French national train company, which uses its own standard for domestic tickets.

SNCF TGV Barcode Specification

This barcode does not have a public specification file available, and was reverse engineered.

Notable Characteristics

Leading Bytes	i0CV
Length	131 bytes (constant)
Encoding	ISO/IEC 8859-1
Signature	N/A

Ticket Structure

Offsets are number of bytes

Field	Offset Start	Offset End	Length (bytes)	Format
Magic Bytes	0	3	4	69 30 43 56 -> i0CV (fixed)
Passenger Name Record	4	9	6
Ticket Number	10	18	9
Unknown	19	22	4	31 32 31 31 -> 1211 (fixed)
Traveller Date of Birth	23	32	10	%d/%m/%Y
Departure Station	33	37	5
Arrival Station	38	42	5
Train Number	43	47	5
Travel Date	48	52	5	%d/%m
Traveller SNCF ID	53	71	19	0-string if missing
Traveller Surname	72	90	19	Left-space padded string
Traveller Forename	91	109	19	Left-space padded string
Travel Class	110	110	1
Tariff Code	111	114	4
Return Travel Class	115	115	1	0-string if missing
Return Departure Station	116	120	5	Empty string if missing
Return Arrival Station	121	125	5	Empty string if missing
Return Train Number	126	130	5	0-string if missing

Kaitai Spec

The Kaitai Spec for this is also located on GitHub.

Yaml

meta:
id: barcode_sncf
file-extension: bin
encoding: "iso-8859-1"
endian: le
seq:
- id: magic
    contents: [0x69, 0x30, 0x43, 0x56]
    doc: "`i0CV` are the four magic bytes identifying tickets issued by SNCF."
- id: passenger_name_record
    type: str
    size: 6
    doc: "Passenger Name Record (assumedly)"
- id: ticket_number
    type: str
    size: 9
    doc: "Ticker number"
- id: unknown_data
    contents: [0x31, 0x32, 0x31, 0x31]
    doc: "Unknown Data"
- id: traveller_dob
    type: str
    size: 10
    doc: "Traveller Date of Birth (format: `%d/%m/%Y`)"
- id: departure_station
    type: str
    size: 5
    doc: "5-character departure Benerail station ID"
- id: arrival_station
    type: str
    size: 5
    doc: "5-character arrival Benerail station ID"
- id: train_number
    type: str
    size: 5
    doc: "5-digit train number (left-zero-padded)"
- id: travel_date
    type: str
    size: 5
    doc: "Date of the travel (format: `%d/%m`)"
- id: traveller_sncf_id
    type: str
    size: 19
    doc: "SNCF Traveller ID (Internal)"
- id: traveller_surname
    type: str
    size: 19
    doc: "Surname of the traveller (left-space-padded)"
- id: traveller_forename
    type: str
    size: 19
    doc: "Forename of the traveller (left-space-padded)"
- id: travel_class
    type: str
    size: 1
    doc: "1-digit travel class (1, 2)"
- id: tariff_code
    type: str
    size: 4
    doc: "Tariff Code"
- id: travel_class_return
    type: str
    size: 1
    doc: "1-digit travel class (0, 1, 2)"
- id: departure_station_return
    type: str
    size: 5
    doc: "5-character departure Benerail station ID"
- id: arrival_station_return
    type: str
    size: 5
    doc: "5-character arrival Benerail station ID"
- id: train_number_return
    type: str
    size: 5
    doc: "5-digit train number (left-zero-padded)"

Ouigo

Long-distance services operated by Ouigo use a different barcode.

This barcode does not have a public specification available, nor has it been reverse engineered.

Characteristics

• Uses Aztec format.
• Contains a base64 encoded 174 byte fixed size high entropy binary content.

SNCF TER Tickets

Depending on the region TER services either use the following format or UIC DOSIPAS.

This barcode does not have a public specification available, and was reverse engineered.

Characteristics

• Uses Aztec format.
• Fixed size, 686 bytes.
• Contains a binary signature and ASCII content.
• Uses the same station and tariff codes as the TGV ticket barcodes.

Kaitai Spec

The Kaitai spec for this is located on GitHub.