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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...

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...

Passengers travelling through Gare de l'Est will not have missed the construction work in progress. The arrival of the CDG Express, expected in 2027, is already in the offing with the construction of new platforms in place of the old platforms 1 and 2. Preparations for this fast 20-minute link with the...

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...

Business travellers who pass through Lyon Part-Dieu on a regular basis have been able to watch this new skyscraper, the Tour To-Lyon, rise gradually, almost right up against the station. Designed by architect Dominique Perrault, the 170-metre-high, 43-storey tower is a new focal point for the city. Overlooking the railway hub, it is...

Between two days of strike action - the one on 19 January and the next expected on 31 January - another source of disruption has been complicating passenger travel since 24 January. In this case, a fire on electrical cables, apparently deliberate. As a result, traffic at Gare de l'Est was...

It took just under a decade to build, a speed record in a country where infrastructure often takes several decades to become operational. On 19 January 2023, Krung Thep Abhiwat Central Terminal officially welcomed its first trains. Originally named Bangkok Bang Sue Central station, the...

A tweet from Fnaut Ile-de-France, the transport users' association, has once again put the spotlight on the Orly TGV station project. Alain Krakovitch, Director of TGV-Intercités, also "liked" the tweet. Unlike previous projects, which placed the station as close as possible to or even underneath the southern Paris airport,...

What is your assessment of 2022, and of this first year of operation in France? Roberto Rinaudo - We're proud to have performed well beyond our expectations in terms of customer satisfaction, load factors and positive feedback from passengers. But also in terms of our pricing policy. It's an excellent...

Nothing had happened at Strasbourg station for some fifteen years since the installation of the famous glass roof covering the historic façade built in 1883. The latter, built by the Germans, gave the city a truly monumental gateway, creating a new station on the route between Paris and Germany....

The SNCF, through its subsidiary Gares & Connexions, has unveiled its new renovation plan for the Gare du Nord, Europe's busiest passenger station. Called Horizon 2024, and with the aim of being completed in time for the next Summer Olympics, the project is based on a minimal redevelopment of the station's...

Signage is not one of Paris-Montparnasse station's strong points, so you have to look hard to find the new Bonport waiting lounge for the first time. Situated in the shopping aisle opposite track 21, this 60 m² space has around twenty seats, in a variety of configurations, so you can be alone or work with others...

Anyone travelling by train in Switzerland will be surprised by the incredible punctuality of trains on the Swiss Federal Railways network. SBB trains arrive and depart with the utmost precision, down to the minute. And this is no figment of the imagination. For example, SBB...

True to form, Wojo has targeted a prime address for business travellers. But this time, it's in the heart of a railway station that the coworking specialist has taken up residence. The new Wojo address is none other than Annemasse station, where the arrival of the Léman Express has given a new lease of life to the...

The inauguration of Montparnasse station was impeccably timed and, like all the work completed on schedule, started exactly on time, to the minute. Even the incursion of the CGT railway workers failed to derail a timed organisation bringing together the major players in the French rail sector. Unfortunately...

Updated on 21/9 at 13:30 One of the major projects planned for the 2024 Olympic Games. The transformation of the Gare du Nord will not happen after all. Or at least not right away, and not in the way envisaged in the concession contract awarded in February 2019 to...

It was the most derided project in Europe and often considered a "disgrace" to Germany's legendary efficiency. The new Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) airport took fourteen years to get off the ground - notwithstanding ten years of advance planning! Well, the Stuttgart 21 project will certainly establish...

The project to modernise the Gare du Nord, presented in the summer of 2018, has since been the subject of several waves of protests. Petitions from local residents, tribunes from architects and urban planners - Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault and Roland Castro among them - against the commercial dominance of this project supported by the SNCF and Ceetrus, a subsidiary of the...

Faced with the restrictions on travel imposed by the confinement, SNCF is reviewing its programme. The rail company will be significantly reducing its offer, which will be limited to 30% of the usual service on the TGV network from 5 November. The high-speed offer therefore remains more substantial than what was put in place at the time...

At the beginning of March, the 52nd and 53rd floors of the Montparnasse Tower in Paris were packed with people. It was for the inauguration of the new Morning Coworking space, a place where 350 people can work with an uninterrupted view of the eponymous station. It's the perfect place to meet the mobility needs of business travellers, as well as their need for flexibility...