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Clément Beaune, the French Transport Minister, came in person to witness the arrival of the TGV M at the Paris-Charenton Technicentre, on a maintenance track modified to accommodate this extraordinary train. This presentation comes as the future TGV begins its trials on the national network, following those carried out in the Czech Republic...

The High Speed 2 (HS2) project, Britain's second high-speed rail line after the Eurostar to St Pancras, has been a veritable snake in the grass. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak blew the whistle on the project on Wednesday at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, in this major metropolis in the...

On 30 September last, at Brussels-Midi station, a small ceremony celebrated the last TGV to run under the Thalys brand, bringing to a close a railway adventure that began in 1996. The Thalys.com website was closed at the same time, with users now being directed to the Eurostar.com website as part of the merger of the two subsidiary companies...

Trainline and Fairjungle are strengthening their partnership with the addition of services from the Swiss, Belgian and Dutch national railways. Through Trainline Partner Solutions, Trainline's BtoB division, the young TMC now benefits from SBB inventories and Benerail, the Belgian-Dutch platform founded in 2003 by SNCB and NS....

After a slow start with the sale of bus tickets last January, followed by the sale of Italo rail tickets in August, Kombo is now making its arrival on the Italian market official, with the possibility of booking in seven languages. "We've gone from €30,000 in sales to €150,000 per...

Guillaume Confais-Morieux, the SNCF's Travel Agencies Market Director, was all smiles when he unveiled the results for business traffic at the IFTM Top Resa tourism trade fair. "While 2022 was a record year for leisure travel, 2023 saw a recovery in business traffic, with a small increase in the number of business travellers....

Under the rather quirky code name of "Botox", the SNCF has unveiled its plan to extend the service life of around a hundred TGVs, with the aim of increasing the number of seats by 15% by 2034. This facelift is in fact one of the solutions chosen by the rail company to respond to the...

It's now official. Almost 10 years after it was cancelled, the Paris-Berlin night train will be back in service this December, thanks to an initiative by the Austrian company ÖBB, which already operates several night trains in Europe, its famous "Nightjet" services such as Paris-Vienna and Brussels-Vienna. The first service will leave Berlin on December 11 and Paris on...

A year after unveiling the exterior design of its future TGV M, the SNCF has just presented the design of the 1st and 2nd class seats that will equip the trains delivered by the Alstom group from 2025. "The design of the seats and lamps will be an emblematic marker. They are the result of...

"Before meeting you on the pitch, I'm delighted to welcome you to the station throughout the Rugby World Cup France 2023": professionals travelling through France will be surprised to hear the voice of Antoine Dupont guiding them during their journeys. Throughout the competition, the captain of the French rugby...

There's good news aplenty for Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). Demand is soaring and SBB is making money again. In the first half of 2023, the number of daily passengers stood at 1.33 million, an increase of 21.4% compared to the same period in 2022. This...

Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), the Italian state-owned rail operator, is planning to launch a high-speed line linking a large part of Europe. Initially, this would be on the same route as Thalys/Eurostar, Paris/Brussels/Amsterdam. With the eventual possibility of integrating a service to both Barcelona and Berlin....

SNCB's new transport plan aims to boost train travel in Belgium, with a target of 30% more passengers by 2032. With this plan, the Belgian railway company aims to achieve an annual output of 89.5 million train-km in 2026, an increase of 7.4% compared with the previous service...

The return to post-crisis normality has been a painful one for France's transport industry... The annual report on quality of service 2022 published on 26 July by the AQST (French Transport Quality of Service Authority) sums it up as follows: "After the upturn during the health crisis, 2022 marks...

We knew that British trains had a bad reputation because of their poor performance in terms of punctuality and regularity. This negative image has just been confirmed by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). On the rail lines managed by Network Rail, 67.8% of trains...

What if SNCF and SNCB launched a remake of IZY? Launched in 2016, Thalys' low-cost subsidiary disappeared from the radar last summer after six years of service between Paris and Brussels. The project unveiled on 18 July by the Franco-Belgian duo is reminiscent of this intermediate positioning: a...

The new system adopted by Eurostar in July is called "SmartCheck" and has been designed by iProov. Already being trialled from December 2021 to April 2022, it enables facial biometric passenger registration at London St Pancras station. It is reserved for Business Premier passengers and members of the...

Updated on 13/07 at 10am The SNCF is continuing to secure its supply of sustainable electricity. A few days after announcing its launch in the production of energy from photovoltaic panels, the railway company is unveiling a partnership with the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR). This is the biggest power purchase agreement ever signed in France...

If you want something done right, do it yourself. Spurred on by the sudden surge in energy prices following the crisis in Ukraine, and driven by eco-responsible issues, the SNCF has decided to become a solar energy producer. To this end, the rail group has launched SNCF Renouvelables, a new subsidiary dedicated to the installation of...

The future Le Train company has announced that it has completed a new round of financing, raising eight million euros. Alongside the two historic shareholders, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and Crédit Agricole Charente-Périgord, who have been with the company since May 2022, four new financial partners have come on board: Charente Périgord...