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You're joining Trainline at a special time for the company: what's your roadmap? Dick Wissink - It's true that I'm joining at a key time, as CaptainTrain has just rebranded. So we're in the process of bringing our teams and offerings closer together. Trainline already had a BtoB team...

Trainline and Concur have published the results of a study carried out among the business customers of the rail booking platform previously known as CaptainTrain. In particular, the two business travel partners deciphered booking habits according to the gender of the traveller. The resulting infographic confirms the findings of other studies published in the course of the year...

Station or airport? The French have chosen. Unsurprisingly, the majority of French travellers (78%) voted rail as their "preferred place of departure". Stations are ahead of airports (73%) and ferry terminals (60%). This fairly logical result is the fruit of a study carried out by YouGov for Trainline - the French rail transport company...

At the beginning of August, Thai National Railways presented to the public for the first time the future trains that will run before the end of the year on the Bangkok-Chiang Mai line. Between now and September 2017, they will equip the lines to Hat Yai in the south, as well as Nakhon Ratchasima and Ubon Ratchathani in the north-east. Spacious,...

On 2 July 2017, SNCF will begin services on the new Sud Europe Atlantique and Bretagne Pays de la Loire high-speed lines. Bordeaux will then be 2 hours 04 minutes from Paris - a saving of 55 minutes - and Rennes 1 hour 25 minutes, reducing the journey time by 39 minutes. The railway company estimates...

As a cost-saving measure, Deutsche Bahn (DB) is reorganising its activities in France by closing its Paris representative office on 30 June, transferring its activities to Frankfurt. The office was set up twenty years ago, and generated sales of €50m a year through a major groups business, business travel and the...

The charges for exchanging SNCF tickets that come into force this month concern leisure fares, but do not affect "pro" tickets. What's more, to make these exchanges, or simply to buy a ticket, the company is rolling out new software in 1,300 ticket machines, with more modern and tactile ergonomics....

After several months of running in on board the e320s, a new service that has been eagerly awaited by corporate customers is now making its appearance on the Paris-London route: Eurostar is now offering free wi-fi on board its new trains. "The successful entry into service of our new fleet is a milestone for Eurostar...

"After seven years of hard work, the project that started in my 12 m² home, Captain Train, has become a major player in the European transport industry (...) The problem with this market is that it's a huge task and we need all the help we can get. Trainline (a kind of...