TGV

On Thursday 30 January, on board a TGV stationed at Paris Gare de Lyon, Lyria's teams unveiled the revamped travel offer that will be available to passengers between France and Switzerland from 5 February. First of all, three new classes will be introduced, with the...

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...

The press were invited to Paris this morning to take stock of Trenitalia's three years in France. "We have already carried 3 million passengers, with an increase of 40% per year since 2022. Above all, 98% of customers are satisfied with their journey, from the...

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%...

There was a big crowd - and even a DJ - at Paris Est station this morning for the departure at 9.55am of the first high-speed train to link the capital to Berlin, via Strasbourg. For the first time, the route will be operated in around 8 hours, using the ICE 3...

Trenitalia is gearing up for its planned ramp-up in France with the changeover to summer timetables. From 15 June 2025, its high-speed Frecciarossa trains - the "red arrows" - will continue beyond Lyon to serve Marseille Saint-Charles station, with 4 return trips a day. The...

China is continuing to revolutionise the transport sector, particularly the railways, with its new project to have trains running at 1,000 kph by 2035, three times faster than our TGVs in France. The project is based on Japanese maglev-type magnetic levitation technology, using magnets...

In a press release issued on Saturday 30 November, the Vietnamese parliament announced the construction of the country's first high-speed railway line on the north-south route between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Construction work will start in 2027, with entry into service scheduled for 2035. The estimated cost is 67 billion...

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...

François Durovray's speech to the French National Assembly yesterday made quite an impression. The new Minister for Transport in the Barnier government called on the rail companies, Voyages SNCF and its current or future competitors, not to focus solely on the most profitable routes in order to achieve more harmonious regional development. "In...

"Piccalilli and cauliflower mousseline with curry", "Roast pumpkin with honey and cashew miso", "Baked salmon, coconut rice and black olives", "Citrus delight with green cardamom"... Eurostar is pulling out all the stops for its new food and beverage menu, which is available to...

To keep its passengers informed and occupied between Paris, Dijon and the Swiss cities of Basel, Zurich, Lausanne and Geneva, Lyria has just redesigned its on-board information and entertainment portal. This development has been carried out in collaboration with the specialist company Moment - which has already developed digital solutions for the Inoui TGVs...

Having failed to obtain authorisation to run to Spain from Paris Gare de Lyon, Renfe has just announced the opening of an AVE train link between Toulouse and Barcelona in the second quarter of 2025. On this route, the Spanish company's high-speed trains will stop at Carcassonne, Perpignan, Figueras and Girona. The trainsets...

Proxima has made a good start on the €1 billion it received from the Antin Infrastructure Partners fund before the summer. For €850 million, the future competitor of the SNCF in the west of France has just ordered 12 Avelia Horizon high-speed trains from Alstom. Delivery is due to start in 2028, which suggests that the trains will be...

The opening up to rail competition is set to accelerate in 2025 with the announcement today that Trenitalia will be offering services as far as Marseille on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille route, which is the busiest and, above all, the most lucrative for SNCF. "We are currently awaiting the final authorisation for services to start in 2025", the company confirmed to us this morning...

At this week's InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin, SNCF Voyageurs and Deutsche Bahn (DB) unveiled their new direct service between Paris and Berlin, operating daily from 16 December. DB will have the privilege of providing the transport thanks to its...

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...

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,...