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This is a first since the opening of rail transport to competition in Spain. For the first time, high-speed traffic has declined on the Madrid-Barcelona route, according to the Spanish National Commission on Competition (CNMC). The decrease in the last quarter of 2025 is also significant, at 13%, totalling 3.3 million...

Railway companies belonging to the French Rail Association (Afra) are launching a renewed assault on SNCF in terms of distribution, demanding that SNCF Connect, the website of SNCF Voyageurs, should sell the offers of its members, such as Trenitalia, La Renfe or Transdev, but also future entrants like Velvet. To achieve this, they are campaigning for the submission of a…

Change of strategy for Le Train. While the future rail company was aiming to operate direct high-speed train services between the major cities on the Atlantic seaboard, with Bordeaux-Nantes and Bordeaux-Rennes at the forefront, it has just announced that it wants to operate on the Paris-Nantes and Paris-Bordeaux routes. Two framework agreements have been signed with...

To further improve the level of service on board its trains between France and Switzerland, TGV Lyria has signed an agreement with the EHL Hospitality Business School, the former École hôtelière de Lausanne founded in 1893, which specialises in service excellence. The aim of this partnership is to improve the travel experience, particularly for...

What if air/rail intermodality were to enter a new era? This is the ambition of Trenitalia and ITA Airways. An ambition recently formalised by the signing of an agreement (Memorandum of Understanding, MoU) between the two major players in Italian travel. "The signing of this Memorandum of Understanding with the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group represents a major step forward in the...

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the commercial branch of Polish railways PKP Intercity is bringing Communist Poland back to life with train journeys as they were in the 1980s. It's an idea that could well appeal to incentive event organisers! Travellers who have experienced the People's Republic of Poland,...

Updated on 6 March at 6pm. The Italian Rail Competition and Market Authority (AGCM) has just issued a favourable opinion for SNCF, giving the French carrier fair access to the high-speed market in Italy. After a great deal of prevarication, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), the Italian rail network...

While Jean-Pierre Farandou, its Chairman for the last six years, has left for the Ministry of Labour, leaving Jean Castex in charge since November, the SNCF group has achieved stable sales in 2025 at €43 billion (-0.31TP3Q/2024) and, above all, a net profit of €1.8 billion. This is the fifth year in a row...

Following on from SNCF a few weeks ago, it is now Trenitalia's turn to unveil its transport plan for the May 1st bridge due to the closure of Gare de Lyon (and Bercy), where SNCF Réseau will be carrying out major work on the tracks and signal boxes. No trains will be running at...

For a while, the Italian government put the trade union discontent on hold to spare the Winter Olympics. The day after the closing ceremony, however, there is no longer any time for national unity. As soon as the "Olympic truce" is over, a vast strike movement is in the starting blocks. On...

Despite having clocked up 13.8 million kilometres, the 377-seat TGV No. 4718, which entered service on 3 March 1995, is looking its best in the Landy technicentre in Saint-Denis. For 7 weeks, it has undergone a €2.5 million facelift as part of the SNCF's project to extend the service...

While Starlink is establishing itself as the new standard for in-flight connectivity, SpaceX's technology is not shying away from forays into other areas of travel. Several railway companies have already launched test phases, such as South Western Railway in the UK since last December. This time, Italo is going one step further...

While Ouigo train tickets are now available from travel agencies in general and business agencies in particular, the SNCF's low-cost offer has seen its prices soar since 2017, according to the latest study by the Fédération nationale des Associations d'usagers des transports (Fnaut). A rise in fares that has already been...

Trenitalia will not be spared the closure of Gare de Lyon between 8pm on 30 April and 2pm on 3 May announced by SNCF Réseau a few days ago. The infrastructure manager, a subsidiary of the SNCF group, will be taking advantage of the 1st May bank holiday to carry out various works...

SNCF has announced that it is buying 15 additional TGV M trainsets from Alstom for €600 million. The trains will be delivered from 2029 onwards, and are scheduled to operate between the Belgian Brussels-Midi station and major French cities other than Paris (such as Marseille and Lyon). With this contract, SNCF is raising...

In order to defuse the inevitable criticism of its high ticket prices, SNCF has announced that the planned fare increase for 2026, averaging 1% for its Inoui and Ouigo TGVs, will be lower than inflation, forecast at 1.3% for the coming year. This increase will take effect from 2 January....

Italy's FS Group, the parent company of Trenitalia, has signed a major strategic agreement with the Certares investment fund. The two partners intend to support Trenitalia's international development, particularly its French and British subsidiaries. A joint venture has been set up for this purpose, with Certares also taking a stake...

On the occasion of the announcement of a new stage in the testing of the TGV M, the SNCF has published a new date for the commercial launch of its new-generation train assembled by Alstom. This is now scheduled for 1 July 2026 for the first four test trainsets, after which eight TGVs will be operational...

In the end, there will be no Deutsche Bahn (DB) ICE 3 trains in London as envisaged by the German rail company in 2013. However, DB is reviving its plans to link the British capital to Germany by signing a memorandum with Eurostar to launch London-Frankfurt services in early 2030...

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has given the go-ahead for a service between London King's Cross station and Glasgow Queen Street station in Scotland from 14 December. A subsidiary of the transport operator FirstGroup, the low-cost rail company Lumo will be offering fares on its website at...