railway companies

Solving unsolvable problems with a wave of his magic wand: since the start of his term in office, Donald Trump has claimed to be able to put an end to the war in Ukraine, the Israeli-Iranian-Palestinian conflict or, with greater success, the rifts between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo or between Armenia and...

In the first half of 2025, 1.41 million people travelled on SBB trains every day, 4.8% more than in the same period of the previous year. This is an all-time record. Another reason for satisfaction: 94.5% of trains were punctual. That's an increase of 0.7 points on the same period last year...

Future competitors to Eurostar are continuing to position themselves on the starting line for cross-Channel services in order to break the monopoly that the SNCF subsidiary has held for 30 years. After the project of the Spanish-Italian tandem Evolyn/Trenitalia, it is now the turn of Virgin Trains to announce that it has signed an agreement with the...

Richard Lutz, the boss of Deutsche Bahn (DB), is being pushed out because of the German rail company's recurring problems with train punctuality. The company has come under fire from users, but also from the German government, which has opted for this radical decision...

The number of railway lines continues to grow in Europe, including over long distances. And not always by high-speed train. On 1 May 2026, for example, a direct service will be launched between Copenhagen and Prague via Berlin, following an agreement between Danish Railways (DSB), Deutsche Bahn and...

As part of its group offer, the SNCF has just revamped its MICE proposal for companies and event agencies needing to manage travel for a seminar, convention, reward trip, product launch, etc. The railway company can now handle requests for 10 people or more, which may require the privatisation of the entire...

Competition is good for rail fares. And now on the Paris-Marseille route since the arrival of Trenitalia's Frecciarossa trains on 15 June. According to a study based on tickets booked on Kombo, a platform for booking train, bus and plane tickets, SNCF has lowered its fares...

London St. Pancras Higspeed has teamed up with Eurostar to increase capacity at London's St. Pancras International station, where passenger numbers are growing and set to rise sharply over the next decade. The number of Eurostar connections between London and Amsterdam will be increased to 5 by the end of 2025, following on from last year's success with 280...

In the end, it will be Velvet, the trade name chosen by the Proxima group from among countless proposals for its high-speed trains, due to run along the Atlantic seaboard from 2028. It is the most advanced project of the SNCF's competitors, starting from scratch, with Proxima having announced last June that it would...

Flixbus is asserting its rail ambitions in Germany with an order for 65 high-speed trains for its subsidiary FlixTrain. Worth €2.4 billion, the order will be split between carriages assembled by the Spanish company Talgo and locomotives built by the German manufacturer Siemens. The contract also includes maintenance of the Talgo 230 trainsets...

Transport & Environnement (T&E) has just published the latest figures for the business travel-related emissions of 25 major French companies, showing an average reduction of 18% between 2019 and 2024. Do you think they are good performers? Denise Auclair - When you look at the number of A- and B-rated companies in our...

After the presentation of the next TGV M trains a month ago, SNCF lifted the veil on the first renovated Ouigo train, called "Tango", at the Gare de Lyon on Thursday morning. Gone are the flashy pink and blue colours so typical of the low-cost service launched by the SNCF in 2013....

Trainline is continuing its European shopping spree by acquiring Spanish rival Trenes.com for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2014 and based in Barcelona, Trenes.com is a train and coach ticket distributor claiming more than 350,000 customers in 2024....

Donald Trump doesn't like trains and prefers planes, especially Air Force One. A staunch opponent of the various high-speed rail projects in the United States, in particular Brightline West, which will link Los Angeles and Las Vegas in three hours by 2028, the Republican president has just cut federal funding for the...

Competition between SNCF and Trenitalia is going from strength to strength! And this time it's concerning its Eurostar subsidiary. The Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) group, parent company of Trenitalia, has just announced the launch of high-speed links on the Paris-London route between now and 2029. The service will use trains inspired by the Frecciarossa, the high-speed trains...

Renfe is taking another step towards its possible exit from France. The Spanish company has just announced that it will be abandoning its Toulouse-Barcelona route, which was due to operate seasonally from April to September. A daily return trip by AVE - the Spanish high-speed train - between the two cities was scheduled to take 3.5 hours,...

SNCF is not the only company to suffer from delays in the delivery of rail equipment by Alstom. Transdev Rail Sud Inter-Métropoles will only have 8 of the 16 Omeo Premium trainsets it ordered to start operating the TER Marseille-Toulon-Nice line on 29 June. This production delay in the...

After the Belgian-Dutch distribution platform Benerail and the Swiss company SBB at the end of 2023, Fairjungle is now adding Trenitalia to its booking platform, thanks to its partnership with Trainline. To offer the Italian carrier's trains, TMC is using Trainline Partner Solution, the rail distribution group's BtoB tool....

The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) have just signed a cooperation agreement with Star Alliance for an innovative intermodal partnership that will simplify passenger mobility in Austria. The agreement enables the 25 Star Alliance member airlines to offer pre- and post-train services in Austria. Passengers will also be able to...

Will the difficulties of opening up rail competition in France claim a new victim? According to the Spanish press, Renfe is considering closing its French lines in the face of the obstacles placed in the way of its development in France by SNCF and the French government. The discord continues to stem from the Spanish company's difficulties...