Tag: TGV
The train derailment left 11 dead and 42 injured: what can we expect from the trial of the worst accident in the history of the TGV?
On November 14, 2015, eleven people died in the accident of a TGV test train in Eckwersheim, near Strasbourg, in Bas-Rhin. From this Monday March 4, 2024, nine years after…
un train sur deux sur les TGV et Intercités, trafic “plus important” sur les TER
10:16 Les GG débattent de la grève La SNCF a-t-elle tort de mettre parmi ses priorités du week-end de maintenir un maximum de trains desservant les stations de sports d’hiver?…
“The objective is to ensure one TGV in two this weekend”
Christophe Fanichet, CEO of SNCF Voyageurs, spoke on franceinfo while a strike will seriously disrupt rail traffic during the weekend, in the middle of school holidays. Published on 02/14/2024 07:56…
Is the SNCF Paris – Clermont-Ferrand line really the worst in France?
No more water, no more electricity or heating and a journey that lasts eleven hours instead of three. Last weekend, the 700 passengers on the train which linked Paris to…
TGV and Ouigo still crowded in 2023… SNCF victim of its success?
“We are indeed in the golden age of the train”… The SNCF has recorded new attendance records in 2023 but is facing a lack of trains to meet the explosion…
Hit by a train, a pedestrian found in swamps
The Loire-Atlantique firefighters intervened on the evening of January 1, 2024 to try to find the lifeless body of a pedestrian, mowed down by a train traveling on the LGV…
For the Christmas holidays, the SNCF has 4 million reservations and no strikes
As the Christmas holidays approach, there is no question of being peaceful in an empty TGV carriage. The CEO of SNCF, Jean-Pierre Farandou said on France Info this Tuesday that…
The prospect of a Christmas strike recedes
Meeting at an inter-union meeting on Tuesday, the SNCF unions did not validate the idea of a strike at Christmas to put pressure on management on the issue of wages,…
TGVs will be able to run again to Brest from Wednesday
In Brest, it has already been six days since the station has seen a single TGV run. Following the passage of storm Ciaran, the Breton railway network was indeed hit…
No trains will run on Thursday in Brittany, Normandy and Pays de la Loire
The SNCF is playing the card of absolute caution. As storm Ciaran prepares to sweep through France in the coming hours, train traffic will be completely interrupted for the entire…