railway companies

Alstom has just confirmed that Sweden's national railway company, SJ, has decided to purchase new high-speed trains. These trains will be the fastest in Sweden, with a maximum speed of 250 kilometres per hour. They will be used for long-distance rail services between Sweden's major cities. They will also be used for...

Following the green light given to the Eurostar/Thalys merger by the European Commission in March, a new stage in this project has just been completed with the merger of the two rail companies within the Eurostar Group holding company, named after the cross-Channel carrier, the brand name that will continue to exist. While Eurostar Group's address is...

At the end of January, the botched launch of the SNCF Connect application clearly did the business of its challenger, Trainline. In the three weeks following this laborious changeover, the independent booking platform recorded a sharp increase in the number of its customers and 50% in its sales of Inoui TGV tickets...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) enjoyed a more favourable year in 2021 thanks to the first wave of relaxation of health constraints during the spring and summer. As a result, the railway company recorded double-digit revenue growth, exceeding the level achieved in 2019. DB Group revenues rose by 18.4 1TP3Q...

The horizon is clearing for the planned merger between the Eurostar and Thalys rail companies. The European Commission has just given the go-ahead for the merger, ruling that "the proposed concentration would not raise competition concerns, given its very limited impact on market structure". [link-block prefix="A...

How is Lyria's business traffic doing? Fabien Soulet - After a period of recovery in the second half of 2021, Lyria experienced a blip in December-January due to the fifth wave of the Covid epidemic caused by the Omicron variant. The recovery is now strong, which has convinced us to...

On 17 March, Jean-Marie Djebbari, the French Minister for Ecological Transition with responsibility for Transport, and Christophe Fanichet, CEO of Sncf Voyageurs, signed an agreement to develop the Intercités day and night service. The agreement, which runs until 2031, covers some 80 daily trains carrying 8.4 million passengers a year, with...

Three months after the launch of its high-speed rail service in France between Paris and Milan, Trenitalia is sticking to its transport plan, announcing a gradual increase in its offer between now and the summer. In addition to the two daily connections of its Frecciarossa high-speed train, which has been running between Paris and Milan since 18 December via Lyon, Chambéry,...

Brussels-Amsterdam by train? The Thalys high-speed train immediately springs to mind. It currently runs eight times a day between the two cities in 1 hour 52 minutes. In comparison, the NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) in cooperation with the Belgian railway company SNCB links the two cities 11 times a day on average. But with a journey time of...

The two railway companies RENFE and SNCF are to cease joint operation of the high-speed train lines between France and Spain. Cooperation between the two carriers will cease at the end of 2022. Launched in 2013, the lines operated jointly by the two operators have never been profitable, and SNCF has been unable to...

There's a lot of talk about the difficulty of booking a ticket or service on the new SNCF Connect application. But what about other European rail companies? A quick look at the applications used by other rail operators is in order. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. However, we can see that the simple purchase...

Now it's the turn of Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister Delegate for Transport, to ask SNCF to "resolve as quickly as possible" the problems with SNCF Connect, the railway company's new application launched on 25 January. In an interview this weekend on the CNews channel, he added that "the...

How would you assess Trenitalia's first steps in France? Roberto Rinaudo - We have exceeded our launch targets. That's very good news. Trenitalia has been very well received, particularly for the very good value for money of our offer. Our trains are full, with a 98% occupancy rate for the...

At the Grand Live du Voyages d'affaires, held online on 20 January at the initiative of CDS Groupe and the IFTM-Top Resa trade fair, Jean-Pierre Farandou, head of the SNCF, opened the event with an update on the rail company's business news. A business segment that is currently affected by a fall in demand for...

2021 has been a particularly eventful year for ÖBB's Nightjet night train product. Coupled with the European Union's "Year of Rail Transport", the Nightjet network was a real hit with the public. The ÖBB has in fact inaugurated four new Nightjet lines in 2021. Since then...

Since Monday, SNCF has reduced its operations. The reason: the health situation, of course, which is affecting not only demand (-30% since the start of the year on the TGV network) but also the group's teams. "It's not a question of unexpected train cancellations, but of adapted transport plans,...

With just a few days to go before the launch of its Paris-Milan via Lyon services on 18 December, Trenitalia is finally unveiling its commercial offer. As announced, its Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) high-speed trains will operate two round trips a day from Saturday between Paris and Milan, with stops in...

On Sunday evening, despite the damp, cold weather, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister Delegate for Transport, and Jean-Pierre Farandou, CEO of SNCF, travelled to Gare d'Austerlitz to celebrate the relaunch of night trains with the first departure of the Paris-Briançon at 20:52 and the Paris-Tarbes-Lourdes an hour later. The return of this rail service...

It was an angry tweet from an American internet user in December 2019. He highlighted the fact that 35 high-speed trains cover the distance between Beijing and Shanghai every day in 4.5 hours. And that, by comparison, on the Chicago to New York line (which has almost the same mileage), there was one train a day doing the same distance...

Like other rail companies, Thalys is seeing a recovery in its leisure and business traffic. "The occupancy rate has returned to the same level or even higher than 2019, but the transport plan is only 78%", confides Bruno Dierickx, the Marketing and Sales Director. On the business side, the...