It will be a sad tenth anniversary for the railways Thelloa subsidiary of the national railway company Trenitalia. Present in France since 2011, Thello has announced that it will cease operating services between Paris, Nice, Milan and Venice from 1 July..
Thello operated a daily night train service between Paris and Venice via Dijon, Milan, Verona and Venice Santa Lucia. A route that connected the two cities in just over 14 hours. Since 2014, it has also operated a daytime service linking Marseille to Milan via Nice, Monaco and Genoa.
At the time of the first French containment in March 2020, the railway company decided to suspend its operations. Since February, it had only resumed its daytime service in the South, but only from Nice.. The journey took five hours to Milan.
The Italian rail unions have expressed their disappointment, believing that trains were a practical means of transporting passengers, independent of traffic conditions. some 600 people a day to the Liguria region.
However, Trenitalia promises that its departure from France is only temporary.. The Italian railway company could return with its own high-speed trains on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille route from 2022. But also position itself before the end of the year on the Paris-Milan via Lyon route.
