Intercités (before September 2009: ''Corail Intercités'') is a brand name used by

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’s national railway company,

SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffic ...

, to denote non high speed services on the 'classic' network in France. SNCF established the Intercités brand in January 2006 to capture the remaining, mainly medium distance network of Corail trains, so called because they use the air-conditioned fleet of 'Corail' coaches introduced by SNCF from 1975. Intercités covers all the important SNCF routes not served by the

TGV The TGV (french: Train à Grande Vitesse, "high-speed train"; previously french: TurboTrain à Grande Vitesse, label=none) is France's intercity high-speed rail service, operated by SNCF. SNCF worked on a high-speed rail network from 1966 to 19 ...

network. Since December 2011, the

Téoz Téoz (formerly Corail Téoz) was a brand name used by France's national railway company, the SNCF, to denote long-distance reservation-obligatory passenger rail services on certain SNCF routes. The SNCF established the Téoz system in 2003 as ...

(long distance trains with obligatory reservation) and

Intercités de Nuit Intercités de Nuit is a brand name used by France’s national railway company, SNCF, to denote overnight passenger rail services in France. It was known as ''Corail Lunéa'' before 2009 and as ''Lunéa'' from 2010 to 2012. Between 2013 and 20 ...

(overnight sleeper train) brands have been re-integrated and the Intercités brand now covers all non-high speed SNCF national-network passenger services. In October 2012, the French government announced increased funding for Intercités services, as part of a new transport strategy.

Network

The Intercités network consists of the following lines as of January 2022:

Day trains

Night trains

As of January 2022, the Intercités de Nuit network consists of the following lines: *Paris - Gap - Briançon *Paris - Marseille - Nice *Paris - Rodez - Albi *Paris - Pamiers - Latour-de-Carol *Paris - Narbonne - Portbou *Paris - Tarbes - Hendaye *Paris - Toulouse

References

External links

Intercités - official website
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