my journey was Lille to Lyon in France. Lille station, despite being a Transit hub for Eurostar and SNCF was poorly signposted with no indication on platform of where my carriage was going to be.The train itself looked about 40 years old and on the inside looked older. Dirty, litter strewn on the floor, seats and tables. The seats themselves looked threadbare, dirty and the head rests looked tatty, greasy and none looked as if they had been steam cleaned in the last 10 years . Air vents full of dust, dirt and hair, light fittings yellowed with age and full of dust and dead flies.....and this was first class.Only one toilet was in opperation for four carriages but there was no sign up to say where this was and like the rest of the train it was a mess and the occupied lamp outside didnt work.No trolley service. One rather depressed and unhappy man (obviously from an outside contracter) with a yellow bag collecting rubbish in that churlish manner that only state enterprises can generate when they farm out cleaning services to a venal skinflint private contractor.TGV, Train de grande vitesse (high speed rail) was once the pride of France and envy of the world. This slow, rickety cattle car was a betrayal of everything France was once rightly proud of. Any CEO of an enterprise as prestigious as this who through incompetence, neglect of deliberate action to validate calls for privatisation, the worst of the three crimes, should not be in charge of a wheel barrow never mind what was once a national treasure.
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