{"id":232603,"date":"2026-11-09T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=232603"},"modified":"2026-11-09T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:02:52","slug":"castex-sncf-tgv-new-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/castex-sncf-tgv-nouvelle-generation","title":{"rendered":"Jean Castex (SNCF): \u00abThe most capacious trains on the longest routes\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

In designing this train, have the expectations of business travelers been taken into account? Is it important for you to meet them?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jean Castex \u2013<\/strong> The expectations of all travelers have been taken into account. But we know that the TGV Inoui range includes a significant proportion of business travelers. This is a statistical reality. And so, indeed, it is absolutely necessary to take their needs into particular consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this new-generation TGV will not run on the line most frequently used by nomadic professionals, Paris-Lyon, but on Marseille and Nice. Why this choice?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

J. C. -<\/strong> Why Paris-Marseille rather than Paris-Lyon? First of all because it makes sense to put the most capacious and comfortable trains on the longest routes. The other reason is the obsolescence of the existing equipment, because these are the lines where we have the oldest carriages. Therefore, we have decided to serve Marseille, then Nice and the Alps with the TGV Nouvelle G\u00e9n\u00e9ration for the time being. But that will come. We have nevertheless ordered a hundred carriages and the majority will be deployed on the South-East axis, where we will put more than eighty of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paris-Marseille is also a line on which Trenitalia has recently positioned itself. Is that a coincidence?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

J. C. -<\/strong> If you are trying to make me say that with this New Generation TGV we will seek to improve the SNCF\u2019s competitiveness compared to the Italian group FS, the answer is of course yes. And then, anyway, we had to choose: you can\u2019t deploy it everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n