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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...

SNCF Connect, the national railway company's application, is continuing to develop its end-to-end travel offer by integrating additional services and new partners. "The station is the train's terminus, but rarely the passengers'. That's why we're looking to offer more sustainable and shared mobility options to...

The United States is often at the forefront of innovation. And it intends to prove this quickly in the field of artificial intelligence. But there is one area that continues to escape this technological leadership: rail. The poor relation of mobility in the US, the railways are at last modernising, at least in...

Yesterday, while the SNCF was unveiling the interior fittings of its future TGV M at Paris-Lyon station, its challenger Trenitalia was announcing the opening of its sales for the summer and publishing its fares for its next Paris-Marseille route, launched on 15 June with four daily return trips to start with. On this route, the Frecciarossa trainsets...

There was a big crowd this morning on platform 5 of the Gare de Lyon to attend the presentation of the interior fittings of the future TGV M. A fifth generation TGV which, however, is taking longer and longer to give birth, since it is expected to enter commercial service in...

What if Eurostar's first direct competitor in the Channel Tunnel fell from the sky? According to the Financial Times, the Virgin group is preparing its arrival on the cross-Channel rail network. Richard Branson's group is planning to raise some £700 million. This could...

Jean-Pierre Farandou, SNCF's CEO, can be proud of the work he has done before his forthcoming departure. For the fourth year running, the rail group's results are in the black. The SNCF has posted a net profit of €1.6 billion (€300 million more than in 2023) on turnover of €43.4 billion.

VorZUG (pronounced phonetically "fortsoug") is a play on words for anyone wondering about such a name: it means both "to put the train ahead" and "to give preference". In any case, the new programme of the Austrian Federal Railways aims to promote rail travel. The...

This is "only" the construction of 6.5 km of track, which will take 25 years to complete, and which will radically improve rail travel for the people of the Somme, Oise and north-east Val d'Oise. The work is due to be completed at the end of 2026...

The Labour government in the United Kingdom has embarked on a major reform to simplify the country's rail services, a reform initiated by the Conservatives. While competition between private operators on the UK network will continue - a reversal of the initial idea of renationalising the entire network - the government is also...

Against all expectations, it is the SNCF that will retain the operation of the Nantes-Bordeaux and Nantes-Lyon lines, the lots for which were put out to tender as part of the opening up of rail services to competition. The announcement was made by Philippe Tabarot, the French Minister for Transport. The offer from [SNCF Voyageurs] offers a better quality of service," he said.