railway companies

In its plans for future competition with Eurostar and possibly other challengers, Virgin Trains has just taken a serious option. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has just granted it the right to use the Temple Mills maintenance workshop located to the north-east of London's St. Pancras station, which until now had been used by Eurostar...

Eurostar CEO Gwendoline Cazenave recently told us that the order for new high-speed trains was well under way. This has now been achieved with the signing of an initial tranche of 30 trainsets with the manufacturer Alstom. Twenty more should follow to reach the target of a renewed fleet of 50 high-speed trains...

After the overhaul of its uniforms, does Eurostar still have plans for the merger with Thalys? Gwendoline Cazenave - We have completed the process after merging the teams of the two companies, creating a new logo, introducing new travel classes throughout our network and...

It's fashion week in Paris, and Eurostar didn't miss the chance to present its new uniforms at Paris-Nord station on Tuesday. At 1pm on Tuesday, around twenty members of its on-board staff took to the catwalk in one of its trains positioned along track 2...

"Business travel is the mirror of the current economic climate and of business confidence," says Christophe Roth, Associate Director - BU Expertises Conseil, EPSA Group. According to the 15th edition of his barometer, unveiled in partnership with the IFTM trade show, the sector is not doing all that badly in an environment that is...

How would you sum up the summer, particularly with regard to the new Paris-Marseille service? Fabrice Toledano - We've had a very positive summer. Firstly on the operational side, because we launched the Paris-Marseille service on schedule in mid-June and added a Paris-Lyon frequency before the summer period. In terms of results...

Rail projects are multiplying in Europe. These include a future direct line between London and Berlin. An agreement to this effect was signed on 17 July between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Under the terms of the agreement, the two governments will work together to remove the legal and logistical obstacles...

September is already shaping up to be a chaotic month on the social front, and business travellers will soon have to contend with several areas of turbulence. On Wednesday, three unions met to call a strike for 18 September: CGT-Cheminots, UNSA-Ferroviaire and CFDT-Cheminots. In a press release, the CFDT-Cheminots warned: "Our...

The SNCF is not alone in reviewing its MICE offer for companies and travel agencies specialising in the organisation of professional events. Its subsidiary Eurostar is doing the same, benefiting from an enhanced rail offer since its merger with Thalys last year. The first advantage of the new system is the lower fare, with the cross-Channel rail company providing...

Getlink, the Channel Tunnel operator, was campaigning last year for the arrival of new operators on its lines. Now it has been served, with so many applicants lining up at the entrance to the Channel to break Eurostar's monopoly. After Evolyn, in association with Trenitalia, positioned for 2026, and Virgin Trains expected in 2030, it is now the turn of Eurostar...

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...