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Penalty in TER train is Eur 50 + ticket price in distances less than 150 km and Eur 88 + ticket price. Fines in LER is not same. But you can be probably only kicked out of train without fine, or you can try to run away in next stop. If you do not pay immediately, the fine grows to Eur 375 and if you do not communicate or you give wrong address, fine can grow up Eur 3750. But for non-French black jumprs fines probably do not exist and suddenly disappear after short time (two months). In TGV train – blue jumpr have a lot of time for writing penalty or call cops. They do not like writing penalty (extra job) and they try to make you scary with police sometimes. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] do not know exact ticket inspection system and if tickets prices in TER and TGV are the same, or if penalty Eur 375 is for all types of train (probably yes). Probably, you have to have seat reservation in some or all TGV trains, but not in TER or LER train. And some blue jumprs can not speak English so good as many of French people or blue jumprs in east countries. Talk in English is not very easy in France.
If you travel far you probably want to take TGV but in many stations they check the tickets for TGV on the entry to the platform which makes it kind of impossible to get in and you need to take TER. TER are not bad but it's probably still better to know where can you enter the fast trains. We tried once to ask the controlers on the gates if they could write us fine directly and let us in but they said that we can't get in without paying.
Stations were they don`t check tickets before going to TGV:
Nimes (checked in 2021)
Dijon (checked in 2021)
Strassbourg (checked in 2021)
Stations with gates and control for TGV:
Avignon(checked in 2021)
Perpignan (checked in 2021)
Lyon (checked in 2021)
Probably Paris
In Nice there are gates for entering the platforms but you can just buy the cheapest ticket for short train, you pass the gates and then you can go to the fast train you like.
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