SNCF

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.

According to Le Parisien newspaper, SNCF is considering launching a top-of-the-range class on its Inoui trains between Paris and Lyon. This new offer would be based on an improvement to the Business 1st offered to passengers on this route, the most lucrative for the railway company. The company is said to have taken this decision in response to the...

The SNCF was not going to let its competitor Trenitalia go it alone in announcing the reopening of the Paris-Milan route on 1 April. Alain Krakovitch, Director of TGV-Intercités, used the social network X to respond to the Italian company by announcing that SNCF would also be resuming service on this route. And...

As it does every year at the beginning of January, SNCF Voyageurs has just announced the amount of the increases for its TGV Inoui and Ouigo services, i.e. +1.5% on average in 2025, following an increase of +2.6% in 2024 and +7% in 2023. While the slowdown in this fare growth may be attributable to better inflation figures (+1.3%...

As 2024 draws to a close, the French Transport Regulation Authority (ART) has just published its study of the French rail transport market, based on figures for 2023. In its 8th annual review, the Authority firstly confirms the continuing rise in the number of rail passengers since the end of Covid, with growth of +6%...

A few days ago, SNCF Gares & Connexions and its subsidiary Arep presented its plan to extend Marseille Saint-Charles station in Marseille, in the presence of local politicians. This major project will see the construction of a new station below "Les Halles Saint-Charles", as well as the opening of an underground passageway...

15 December 2024 not only saw the launch of the Paris-Berlin ICE 3, but also the return of the direct rail link between Nancy and Lyon six years after it was suspended in 2018, mainly due to the work being carried out at Lyon Part-Dieu station. Highly anticipated by...

For the first time, the organisation Transport & Environment (T&E) has ranked 27 European rail companies according to a series of criteria including price levels, train punctuality, ease of booking and ticket resale. In the overall ranking, Trenitalia came top, followed by Swiss railways SBB CFF,...

Updated on 20/11 at 5pm Two years and then gone... After two one-year contracts, this autumn the SNCF quietly ended its collaboration with Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx on the menu for the TGV Inoui bar. Gone is the "apple rösti burger"...

Faced with steadily rising demand on its Atlantic network, and in order to prepare for the arrival of competitors such as Proxima and Le Train in three to four years' time, SNCF Voyageurs has decided to significantly increase its seat capacity to the South-West, Pays-de-la-Loire and Brittany. To achieve this, the railway company is counting on the use of...

The next few weeks look set to be difficult for SNCF passengers. Following a meeting on 28 October with Transport Minister François Durovray and then SNCF management, the railway company's unions have issued two strike warnings. The first, a one-day strike, is scheduled for Wednesday 20 November 19...

SNCF Réseau will be carrying out an extraordinary project in 2025-2026, which will have an impact on train traffic on the Paris-Orléans-Limoges-Toulouse route. Aimed at changing the entire track - rail, ballast and sleepers - using a huge factory train and mobilising some 400 people, this work, worth €133m, will start in...

The horizon is brightening for SNCF's business activity. After a slow recovery, marked by a return to pre-Covid traffic levels of 80 %, the company is announcing an increase of 14% in the number of business passengers in the autumn of 2024. This follows double-digit growth in the first few months of the year. "The...

Updated on 27 August at 2pm Of course, not everything will be perfect for welcoming disabled athletes and spectators at the next Paralympic Games. Accessibility to the Paris metro remains the French capital's biggest problem for travellers with reduced mobility. Apart from line 14 and the stations...

After the rain, the sun shines. The wet start to the Olympic Games was followed by a cascade of medals. Traffic is now flowing smoothly on all the high-speed lines in response to the network being paralysed by acts of sabotage last Friday. Since that sombre Friday, SNCF Réseau staff have been hard at work,...

Updated at 2.30pm "A bearded man is a bearded man. Three bearded men, that's two bearded men". The fires that last night affected several stations along several TGV lines controlling signalling and points - at junction points no less - are reminiscent of this famous line by Audiard in the eponymous film Les Barbouzes....

With the expected growth of Ouigo, which will account for 30% of the SNCF's high-speed offer by 2027 compared with 20% today, the railway company is opening up the distribution of its low-cost offer to leisure and business travel agencies, abandoning its original principle of selling exclusively direct via the website...

Transilien SNCF line users are now used to these screens, which display in real time how busy the next trains are, car by car, at three levels: low, medium or high. This system was gradually rolled out in the midst of the pandemic, and since May 2023 has been extended to all the H, J, K, L, N, R,... lines.

Faced with growing demand for TGV travel, which SNCF is struggling to meet, the rail company has decided to beef up its low-cost Ouigo product. By 2030, it should account for 30% of its high-speed offer, compared with 20% today. "To achieve this, we are going to increase the number of Ouigo TGV trains...

The single national transport pass is finally on track! Patrice Vergriete, the French Minister for Transport, made the announcement on 23 May, after chairing the first steering committee for this ambitious project a month ago, signing a memorandum of understanding with the Groupement des Autorités Responsables des...