SNCF took a while to cotton on to the idea of low cost but now it seems it is embracing it at full speed.
On Thursday it announced its Ouigo service, which essentially offers cheap TGV tickets on its fleet of trains would be extended.
Set up in April 2013 Ouigo’s light-blue and pink trains were an answer to low-cost airlines with trains linking the outskirts of Paris to the south of France, namely the cities of Lyon, Marseille and Montpellier.
From the beginning 2016 the trains will now link stations in the north of France: Tourcoing, and the TGV station Haute-Picardie near Amiens, as well as cities in the west of France Nantes, Rennes, Le Mans and Angers.
SNCF took a while to cotton on to the idea of low cost but now it seems it is embracing it at full speed.On Thursday it announced its Ouigo service, which essentially offers cheap TGV tickets on its fleet of trains would be extended.Set up in April 2013 Ouigo’s light-blue and pink trains were an answer to low-cost airlines with trains linking the outskirts of Paris to the south of France, namely the cities of Lyon, Marseille and Montpellier.From the beginning 2016 the trains will now link stations in the north of France: Tourcoing, and the TGV station Haute-Picardie near Amiens, as well as cities in the west of France Nantes, Rennes, Le Mans and Angers.