“All signals to green”
“All signals are green” for the relaunch of a passenger train between Bordeaux and Lyon in a year, assured Friday the general manager of the railcoop rail cooperative, Nicolas Debaisieux.
The young company had delayed by six months in October the launch of its trains on Bordeaux-Lyon, scheduled for June 2022, explaining that SNCF Réseau had not been able to provide it with the necessary paths (traffic slots).
“The negotiations with SNCF Réseau on the train paths are other improvements”, a statement Nicolas Debaisieux before the Association of Transport and Mobility Journalists (AJTM).
For rolling stock, Railcoop will soon sign the purchase contract for eight old TERs sold by the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, which it intends to renovate “at the end of February-beginning of March”, he specified.
Over a hundred jobs created
The company promises 13 spaces for bicycles per oar, spaces for children, cabins allowing people to isolate themselves to work, spaces for people with reduced mobility “reworked” and a restaurant with a microwave.
Railcoop must also launch recruitments in the spring, Bordeaux-Lyon in front of employer “more than a majority of people”, according to Nicolas Debaisieux.
The small company based in Figeac (Lot) intends to run two round trips per day from December 11, 2022 between Bordeaux, Périgueux, Limoges, Montluçon, Roanne and Lyon, in around 7:30 am, resuscitating a transverse link abandoned in 2014 .
Nicolas Debaisieux no longer mentioned a date for the opening of the passenger lines that Railcoop intends to open subsequently, Toulouse-Limoges-Poitiers-Le Mans-Caen / Saint-Brieuc and Thionville-Metz-Nancy-Dijon-Grenoble / Lyon- Saint Etienne.