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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
Format Aztec or PDF417
Length 131 bytes (constant)
Encoding ISO/IEC 8859-1
Signature N/A

Station Codes

Stations use a five letter upper-case ASCII code, with the two leading letter being an ISO 3166-2 alpha 2 country code.

Note that these are different codes than the Benerail codes used e.g. by Thalys that have the same format.

Tariff Codes

A full list of used tariff codes is unknown, the below are values observed in the wild.

Code Description
CF00 “Ayant Droit Résa Payante”, “Ayant Droit avec fichet” - 100% staff discount
CF90 “Ayant Droit 90%”, “Ayant Droit sans fichet” - 90% staff discount
CJ11 “CARTE JEUNE”
CW00 “CARTE AVANTAGE ADULTE”
CW11 “CARTE AVANTAGE ADULTE”
CW12 “NO FLEX CARTE AVANTAGE ADULTE”
CW25 “CARTE AVANTAGE ADULTE”
EF11 “CARTE ENFANT+” (parent)
EF99 “CARTE ENFANT+” (child)
FA11 “BUSINESS PREMIERE”
FF40 “CARTE FORFAIT LIGNE CLASSIQUE”
FF70 “CARTE FORFAIT”
FF98 “BILLET ABONNEMENT FORFAIT”
FZ30 Loyalty card
FZ41 “MAX ACTIF PLUS”
FZ71 “MAX ACTIF”
FZ94 “BILLET MAX ACTIF”
HC16 “MAX JEUNE” - Formerly called TGVMax
IR00 “INTERRAIL CONTINGENTÉ 2ÈME CLASSE”
IR01 “INTERRAIL NON CONTINGENTÉ 2ÈME CLASSE”
JE00 “CARTE AVANTAGE JEUNE”
JR11 “PREM’s” occurs together with a loyalty program number in the PDF
LB00 “CARTE LIBERTE”
LB11 “TARIF LIBERTE”
NU44 “Billet illico PROMO VACANCES 40%”
NV30 “LIBERTIO’ JEUNES TRAIN JAUNE”
NW26 “BILLET ILLICO LIBERTE SEMAINE 25%”
PR11
PX01 “TARIF NORMAL RÉGIONAL”
PX05 “DIGITAL TARIF”?
SE00 “CARTE AVANTAGE SENIOR”
SE11 “BILLET CARTE AVANTAGE SENIOR”
SR50 “Carte Senior”
empty not operated by SNCF

Kaitai Spec

The Kaitai Spec for this is also located on GitHub.

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.