TER, TGV, electric … Soon trains more like the others?

UIt is not customary. Moreover, last spring last spring, it was by the carbon road that arrived in Saintes (17) the model of the machine supposed to revolutionize the proximity rail, and by the same “dedicate” the transport of passengers. Similarly, Two large trucks loaded in Spain with a life -size telli. However, 15 tonnes that it then had to be hailed in the shadow of the ferrocampus, this vast hive where everything that the rail has today has apprentices and neopioniars. However, The place. Consequently, rebuilt and administered by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, could thus be the cradle of the train of tomorrow, around 2035, when the wonders of this batteries are hoped by mountains and by Vaux, a fortiori when in France four out of ten lines are still not electrified.

1. Le Telli. Similarly, a new little “frugal” ter, tgv, electric … soon train

While the test phase will end next year, the program at 89 million euros piloted by SNCF, with ten other partners, promises a light, “frugal” and infinite modular train-thus the compartment imagined for the delivery of small packages be able to be redeveloped in skis. However, Carrying 150 travelers. Nevertheless, including 74 seated, on short distances and at maximum speed of 120 km/h, it represents “a potential of 9,000 km to value”, augurs Jacques Berling, the project director. Similarly,

“All communities know that they will have trains to change in the ten to fifteen years old”

“To make believe that the Telli will ride on closed lines today would be butter the glasses. For example, warns Renaud Lagrave, the vice-president of the region in charge of transport. Moreover, On the other hand. Consequently, all communities know that they will have trains to change in the ten to fifteen years old. Similarly, ter, tgv, electric … soon And in large widths. Meanwhile, since a quarter of the country’s 2,250 ter would be affected, and even one in three in New Aquitaine. “The observation is striking. even critical,” insists Séverine Rennet, Director General of Ferrocampus, while eyeing this commercial shooting window which indeed seems wide open for Telli and its 200 km of autonomy.

2. For ter. we’re going to do new with old

A train is better than two you will have it in Saint-Glinglin: while waiting for Telli’s dream to come true, and faced with the increase in its regional traffic (still 11 % in 2024), New Aquitaine made new with old. Thus these 62 TER trains whose facade will be swallowed up to 2030 at the Technicentre de Périgueux. “A mid-life operation in order to make them more comfortable, efficient and respectful of the environment. »»

“In fact. ter, tgv, electric … soon trains are no longer in a revolutionary phase”

In addition to what is now called “retrofit”, 18 sounding and stumbling orders of regiolis and Régio 2N trains (a total of 4,600 additional places) were also made against the trifle of 198 million euros. At the quay at Poitiers station at the start of the summer. without upsetting the situation, the first livery will have unveiled some approvals as new. In addition to their now traditional bi-mod motorization (electric. diesel), note a step automatically adapting up to the quay, larger bay windows, new light bands to inform the traveler, but also fewer seats for more lifting strapontines. “In fact. trains are no longer in a revolutionary phase,” explains Laurent Caseau, commercial director in France of the Spanish manufacturer CAF, the successor of Alstom for TERs. “The changes are mainly made in the interior design. à la carte and optional depending on the ter, tgv, electric … soon length of the trips that the train will have to make. For the rest. we work a lot in improving comfort, the ergonomics of materials which must be as thick possible, especially the seats. »»

Ter, tgv, electric … soon

3. 5^e generation of TGV will see the light of day

Release of the Aytré factories (17) in 2022. the fifth generation of TGV already broke the record for the greatest distance traveled during a test phase. Before its commercial commissioning next year on the southeast axis-and on the rest of the network in the next ten years with 115 trains ordered by the SNCF-. this TGV M (as modular) has suggested its main innovations. Point. ter, tgv, electric … soon this time, of supersonic ambition, the cruising speed remaining fixed at 320 km/h, but under the hood a world first with the presence of the “graft”, this rescue battery intended, in the event of a breakdown, to scratch our vocabulary the “shipwrecked rail” expression. Let us also quote. pell-mell, 20 % more storage per passenger, enlarged toilets, a “bistro” car on two levels and seats made thanks to a 3D knit composed of 85 % wool.