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In mid-July, Renfe began services on the Lyon-Barcelona and Marseille-Barcelona-Madrid routes. One year after the arrival of Trenitalia and its Frecciarossa operating on the Paris-Lyon-Milan route, the launch of the Spanish national carrier on French rail represents a new stage in the opening up to rail competition, which will be possible from December 2020. Following the applications...

Normandy, Brittany, Pays de Loire, Hauts-de-France, Centre-Val de Loire: in these five regions, TER trains will be at a standstill on Thursday 2 November - or even from Wednesday evening until Friday morning. The storm Ciaran is forcing SNCF Réseau to introduce this radical measure: the preventive stoppage of rail traffic. The measure, known as "stop...

In order to fine-tune its yield management system and adapt to more open rail competition on its most profitable lines, SNCF has been moving in successive stages since 26 September to a new booking platform to replace the ageing ResaRail system. Starting with BtoB reservations for...

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...

Consolidation work on the railway section in the Maurienne valley is proving more complicated than initially expected. A landslide had interrupted traffic since August. Announced for November, the resumption of the railway line linking Paris to Turin and Milan has now been postponed until the end of June 2024....

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...

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...

The SNCF manages around 3,000 stations in France, Deutsche Bahn around 6,500 and the Swiss CFF just over 800, but what is surprising is the extremely small number of luggage lockers offered by the French operator inside stations. And while almost all stations...

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...

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...

Ten euros more per journey. That's what the SNCF has just announced for its guaranteed fares with the SNCF Avantage Card. The SNCF's Carte Avantage is used by some 4.5 million people and gives access to a discount of 30%. As well as a cap on fares. The latter cost...

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...

There was no doubt about it for the German and French authorities. The creation of a direct TGV line between Paris and Berlin is seen as a major step towards a European railway system, one of the major assets in the decarbonisation of the continent. Except that the controversy has focused on the route to be taken...

After renovating the interior of the Gare de Lyon in Paris - in particular the fresco gallery and its Grand Voyageur lounge - SNCF Gares & Connexions is now tackling the renovation of the part of the building on the Seine side, overlooking the rue de Bercy and the Bercy business district. The aim of the transformation is to...

SNCF has decided to review the Intercités night train services between Paris and south-west France. Announced on 24 May at a rail services monitoring committee meeting, this measure concerns the night trains known as "Le Pyrénéen" and "L'Occitan", the latter incorporating the new Paris-Aurillac-Paris.... night service.

After the programme that gave birth to the TGV forty years ago, a project on the same scale - 100 billion euros - is preparing to revolutionise the French rail world in the decades to come. Not at high speed this time, but at the gentle pace of commuter or regional trains. A...

With another day of general strikes against pension reform - the tenth - scheduled for Thursday 6 April, business travel in France is likely to be disrupted, but to a lesser extent than during previous strikes. As far as air travel is concerned, the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) is not forecasting any disruption...