New funding for LE TRAIN
France’s first private high-speed rail company to offer inter- and intra-regional services, LE TRAIN, announced today that it has finalised a new financing round worth 8 million euros…
Analysis
Four French entrepreneurs want to operate trains differently
Launching your own trains in France is not easy, yet four entrepreneurs are trying to put private trains on the rails where the SNCF has abandoned services. They…
Analysis
France seems to welcome competition on the rails, yet new services keep getting postponed
Only one competitor to the state-owned railways SNCF currently runs trains on the French network. This is Italy’s Trenitalia, which has been running on the Paris-Lyon-Milan axis since…