On 2017\01\25 10:30, Richard J. wrote:

In Paris, it's less draconian than that, but quite customer-friendly.
The arrangement is, I think, that they have to keep a proportion of the
trains running to provide a minimum level of service. So when there's a
strike on the Métro, RATP are able to announce in advance the expected
level of service during the strike, such as "1 train in 3". If there is
disruption on RER B, SNCF always run a shuttle service from Gare du Nord
to CDG airport to provide a minimum service to the airport. They even
have a dedicated website abcdtrains.com which is only used during major
disruption, usually strikes, to provide details of the emergency
timetable. It remembers the journey you asked about during the previous
strike.

I heard that French railway strikes involved running the trains as
normal but closing all the ticket offices and letting everyone travel
free. Was that a myth?