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With just a few days to go before the launch of its Paris-Milan via Lyon services on 18 December, Trenitalia is finally unveiling its commercial offer. As announced, its Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) high-speed trains will operate two round trips a day from Saturday between Paris and Milan, with stops in...

On Sunday evening, despite the damp, cold weather, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister Delegate for Transport, and Jean-Pierre Farandou, CEO of SNCF, travelled to Gare d'Austerlitz to celebrate the relaunch of night trains with the first departure of the Paris-Briançon at 20:52 and the Paris-Tarbes-Lourdes an hour later. The return of this rail service...

It's not just night trains in France and Europe that are attracting renewed interest. Two luxury train projects have just been unveiled in quick succession. The first, in France, comes from the Puy du Fou, which in summer 2023 will be launching the Grand Tour, a 4,000-mile rail journey...

Well-known to business travellers who want to be able to work more easily on board by opting for an isolated seat, for example, the seat selection function is now available on Trainline's French services. The train reservation specialist announced this on 21 September, calling the new tool Seat Map. This...

Trains, hotels and hire cars: these three key components of domestic business travel have been brought together in the new Travel offering launched by Notilus. "This is part of our drive to simplify business travel for our users, from preparing their trip to processing their expense claim", said Notilus CEO, Philippe...

There is a little more clarity about the application of the health pass to transport. Jean-Baptiste Djebbari spoke on the subject on 28 July, suggesting that it would come into force between 7 and 10 August. "For aircraft on domestic flights and for long-distance trains, i.e. the...

The President's address on 12 July set out a series of new health-related measures. Emmanuel Macron intends to step up the pace of vaccination. "Depending on how the situation develops, we will undoubtedly have to raise the question of compulsory vaccination for all French citizens", he even warned.

Switzerland is anticipating ever-increasing use of the railways for future travel. It is therefore embarking on a gigantic infrastructure modernisation project along the arc of Lake Geneva, the largest project to date in French-speaking Switzerland. This investment will primarily concern the Geneva-Lausanne axis. Passenger numbers are expected to...

The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) want to attract more passengers with more attractive rail fares. However, faced with a sharp rise in traffic, ÖBB also wants to better manage the flow of bookings. Hence the incentive for future customers to book earlier. The new rule, which will apply from 1 July, is...

Bringing together a large proportion of the world's rail services in a single technological solution was already one of Trainline's strong points. Via its website and mobile app, this independent platform brings together the offerings of 270 rail and bus operators in 45 countries. That's millions of routes, fares and times...

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) will be making a number of improvements to its network for the 2022 timetable, in order to meet the growing demand for rail services. The new timetable will come into force on 12 December 2021. The network will incorporate cross-border lines to a greater extent. On the regional network, for example,...

The Flixmobility group, known throughout Europe for its "Flixbus" bus routes, is reopening its FlixTrain network in Germany with a new offer on five routes, including one night train. The group had already launched its low-cost trains in 2018 on the Cologne-Hamburg, Cologne-Berlin and Stuttgart-Berlin routes. These routes, which the company...

Germany's federal railways, Deutsche Bahn, want to promote the use of digital tickets. This means suspending the sale of paper tickets on trains. Paper tickets will be phased out by 2022. Since the end of April, passengers using Deutsche Bahn trains have no longer been able to buy their...

After reducing its offer during the last lockdown, SNCF is increasing it again with the lifting of the ban on journeys of more than 10 km on 3 May. From four TGVs out of ten in recent weeks, the Inoui and Ouigo high-speed offer will gradually increase to reach eight TGVs out of ten in...

The Occitanie region and Toulouse Métropole can celebrate after four years of battle over a highly political project. On 27 April, a letter from Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed that the French government was committing €4.1 billion to funding the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed line. By 2030, the project will have...

Brightline in Florida is the first private rail operator in the United States in 40 years. The young rail company's ambition is to extend its network, which currently comprises a line linking Miami to West Palm Beach via Fort Lauderdale. On this 105 km long line, 17 trains run every day for a total...

The study published by Trainline on 19 April comes at a relatively sensitive time. For several years now, air travel has been criticised for its impact on the environment, and the trend has accelerated with the phenomenon of "flygskam", or the "shame of flying". Now, with the economic crisis, government subsidies to airlines...

Germany and Austria are in the midst of a debate on the compulsory wearing of FFP2 masks on trains and other public transport. At the end of the week, both countries made up their minds. No in Germany (except in Bavaria) and yes in Austria. The debate raged after the Austrian state of Bavaria introduced the...

Bertrand Gosselin, CEO of Thalys, posted a strong and unequivocal message on his Twitter account on Wednesday: "Thalys is going through the biggest crisis in its history. [We] have reduced our offer to a minimum with regret but with responsibility. When better times return, we will need you, our customers,...

Like most of its European counterparts, Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) will launch its 2021 timetable on 13 December. And these timetables contain a series of new features presented by the company's Managing Director Andreas Matthä at a press conference in Vienna at the end of October. "We are, of course,...