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Téoz (formerly Corail Téoz) was a brand name used by
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'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 an attempt to bring certain key routes up to the same standards as
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 ...
s where high-speed lines are not available, leaving ordinary Corail trains to serve the rest of the non high-speed intercity and interregional network. It was merged into the
Intercités Intercités (before September 2009: ''Corail Intercités'') is a brand name used by France’s national railway company, SNCF, to denote non high speed services on the 'classic' network in France. SNCF established the Intercités brand in January ...
brand in 2012.


Service

Téoz services were not universally liked by the general public as they required compulsory reservation but went little faster (up to 200 km/h or 125 mph) than the traditional services they replaced. In January 2012, it was officially announced that the Teoz brand would abandoned; all SNCF long-distance non high-speed services have since been assimilated into the
Intercités Intercités (before September 2009: ''Corail Intercités'') is a brand name used by France’s national railway company, SNCF, to denote non high speed services on the 'classic' network in France. SNCF established the Intercités brand in January ...
brand, along with the overnight sleeper trains which have also lost their previous branding (Lunéa)."La SNCF regroupe ses trains interrégionaux sous l'appellation «Intercités»"
'' Les Échos'' (in French), 4 January 2012. There was an Éco train, which was running once a day on the line from the Gare d'Austerlitz in Paris to
Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Pa ...
. In second class, passengers could choose between reclining seats in an open carriage, or six-person
couchette A couchette car is a railway carriage conveying non or semi-private sleeping accommodation. Overview The car is divided into a number of compartments (typically 8 to 10) accessed from the side corridor of the car, which in daytime are configu ...
compartments with the couchettes folded to form benches. In first class, only couchettes were available. These were permanently in night position, so passengers in first class had to either travel lying down, or agree to share the lower couchettes, sitting without backrests or armrests.


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