The SNCF is unable to sell tickets for departure or arrival from three Parisian stations on July 26, the day of the opening ceremony. The Paris-Gare de Lyon, Paris-Bercy and Austerlitz stations are in the red zone, c i.e.
where motorized access will be prohibited. By noon, the public group had already sold 800,000 tickets, he announced. The Italian company Trenitalia, which operates five rotations per day between Paris and Lyon, put seats for its trains on sale.