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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...

Organising an entire business trip, booking a train, a car or a hotel: all this is now possible via the SNCF Connect website or app. While the site already invited travellers to hire a car by linking up with Avis-Budget, accommodation has now been added to the booking process...

On Monday 29 April, SNCF unveiled the livery of its future Inoui TGV at Alstom's Belfort plant, where some of the trainsets are assembled. A little surprise: for the first time, the trains will feature a white livery with black accents on the nose of the power car, grey accents on each carriage and...

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Ouigo is giving its 38 low-cost TGVs a facelift. Already ultra-capacious, with capacity for 1,268 passengers - the equivalent of 6 B737-800 aircraft - they will soon be even more so. The interior refurbishment, scheduled to take place between 2025 and 2027, will make it possible to add a few more seats by doing away with the bench seats and...

Eurostar is continuing to harmonise its offer following the absorption of Thalys in 2023. From 4 November, the railway company will be introducing new travel classes across its entire network serving France, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Eurostar Standard will be its entry-level class, corresponding to...

In its priority projects for 2024, the SNCF group has announced its intention to commit 11.7 billion euros of investment, part of which will be devoted to railway renovation and modernisation. Among the projects planned is the installation by SNCF Réseaux of new signalling on the Paris-Lyon high-speed line (LGV), which will result in the cessation of traffic on the...

For the third year in a row, SNCF is rolling along in a greener-than-ever landscape, with the rail company posting a profit of 1.3 billion euros. However, this profit is less flamboyant than the 2.4 billion earned in 2022, the year in which the pandemic ended, even though sales continued to grow by...

Better than an example of the recurring problems encountered by passengers who prefer the train to the plane between Paris and Clermont Ferrand. Barely two days after the announcement of a vast improvement plan for this line, the Intercités train leaving the capital at the end of the day arrived at its destination in Auvergne in the middle of the night, with more than...

According to an article in Le Parisien, which obtained access to an internal SNCF document, the railway company is considering "optimising TGV services" on its loss-making routes. This could ultimately result, at worst, in the closure of certain lines, and at best in a reduction in the number of daily trains....

Not 2-in-1, but 17-in-1. The SNCF has redesigned station assistance and support for disabled passengers until they reach their seat on the train around the Assist'engare one-stop shop. This simplification has been encouraged by the Mobility Orientation Act (LOM). Previously, for journeys involving a number of stages, such as first taking a TER to catch a...

How do you explain the fact that the night train has become the "star" of the year 2023? Amandine Thomas Commin - The revival of the night train is attracting a great deal of media coverage and interest from passengers, associations, the press and influencers... After a decade of virtual disappearance, the...

This Tuesday morning, just before 10.45am, the first night train from Berlin arrived at Gare de l'Est in Paris after a ten-year interruption, only fifteen minutes late. This new Nightjet train, operated by Austrian Railways (ÖBB) in partnership with SNCF, is...

After an average fare increase of 5% in 2023, SNCF is set to increase its Inoui TGV fares again next year. However, this increase will have to be limited to the rate of inflation, i.e. 2.6%, according to the government's wishes. SNCF Voyageurs is unlikely to be happy with this framework, as it will have to...

The Train + Air service gives passengers a single reservation for their entire journey, combining rail and air. Above all, it guarantees them a seat on the next flight or train in the event of delays, free of charge. Last year, the service even entered the digital age, with...