Train no longer rhymes only with SNCF in France.
It is the TGV customers who will experience it first.
Trenitalia will come to titillate Ouigo and Inoui on Paris-Lyon.
In June perhaps, or more likely in December, the Italian rail operator is expected to offer three round trips a day on this route, as part of its new Paris-Lyon-Milan line.
For its part, Renfe has positioned itself on Lyon-Marseille, at the rate of five daily round trips.
The ex-Spanish monopoly planned to open this line in December.
It will be later, for questions of homologation of on-board systems, a dragging file.
“For this reason, the request for train paths that we have made is delayed,”
explains the operator.
New competitors
The arrival of new carriers results from the opening up to competition on rail, long demanded by Brussels and which has become reality in France with the law for a new rail pact of June 2018. If the health crisis has delayed
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