SNCF

SNCF will be undergoing a minor revolution on 14 December when it switches to the Winter 2025-2026 service. Between now and then, the railway company plans to change the seat numbering on all Inoui TGVs from two to three digits. The SNCF is adopting the same numbering system already used on...

Designed to support passengers on a daily basis, SNCF Connect is now more than just a leisure or home-work service: more than a million customers have already used it for their business trips. From home to long-distance travel, the service also offers real-time passenger information and options for professionals. To find out more...

Trenitalia is continuing to expand in France since its launch in December 2021. From 15 December, the Italian airline will be adding 5 extra return trips on its flagship Paris-Lyon route. This will bring its daily service on this route to 14 departures in each direction on weekdays. This increase comes...

Although the SNCF offers a wifi service on board its Inoui TGVs, accompanied by a portal giving access to services and content (press, films, games, podcasts, etc.), the quality of this service is often criticised for insufficient speed, interruptions, white zones, etc. "Wifi doesn't work! Wifi doesn't work!" is how...

Blockades of stations, roads and airports: the consequences for business travel on 10 September of a multi-faceted social movement, including raids here and there - update: and which included an attempted break-in at Paris Gare du Nord and various incidents blocking train tracks in...

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...

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...

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...

Passenger rail transport grew by 6% in 2024 (and by 14% compared with 2019, the reference year), a level equivalent to the two previous years, according to the latest report from the Transport Regulation Authority (ART). The increase, which amounts to 4% for high-speed trains alone, could have been...

Striking SNCF railway workers are keeping up the pressure. After last week's strike, which included the 8 May bridge, the CGT-Cheminots has called another strike for 4, 5 and 11 June. The rail company's main union organisation is hoping to win its case on the organisation of the strike...

The SNCF is seeking reassurance in the face of the strike planned for this week, which will culminate in the 8 May bank holiday. A strike by ticket inspectors was added this weekend to the initial call for strike action announced by the CGT and Sud Rail unions, concerning pay and the organisation of...

It's parade time for the SNCF, which is presenting a whole series of new rolling stock. After the TGV M for its Inoui offer and the first in a long series of Ouigo makeovers for its low-cost trains, the railway company has lifted the veil on its future Intercités train, christened "Oxygène"...

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....

Although the school holiday period has been spared, a new strike is looming on the horizon for the week of 5 to 11 May, following notice given by the CGT and Sud Rail unions. The SNCF is attempting to defuse the conflict by stepping up negotiations, with this period including the highly strategic...

25 years after the creation of Voyages-sncf.com, which later became Oui.sncf and now SNCF Connect, SNCF Connect & Tech is extending its digital offering with the creation of Tesmo, dedicated to sustainable mobility in France and Europe. Tesmo, which stands for "Technology at the Service of Mobility", aims to be a supplier of digital services and to develop...

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,...

The second Paris-Milan Inoui TGV set off this morning at 9.46am, 19 months after the rail line was suspended due to major rockfalls in the Maurienne valley on 27 August 2023. Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot came to the station for the occasion...

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...