Night trains. Relaunch of Paris – Hendaye
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“ The Pyrenean », the night train Paris – Hendaye, was relaunched on July 2 to serve the Pyrenean foothills from Pau to Hendaye. The “Yes to the night train” collective and the CGT welcomed this “ railway offer public “, but called on the same day for rallies in France (in Bayonne and Hendaye), in Spain (in Irun and Madrid), and in Portugal (in Lisbon) to defend the extension of this train beyond the French border . Moreover, they regret that he is “ limited to July and August », that he « does not cross the border, depriving travelers of possible connections in Irun “, and that his hours are ” unattractive at the end of the line due to the detour via Toulouse “. These gatherings carried out with the Spanish collectives “ Ecologists in Action “and Portuguese” Aterra will be an opportunity to recall the urgency of the implementation of an ambitious night train network to the Iberian Peninsula where the historic rail network has suffered from aging and lack of investment for several decades, they judge. In the medium term, they hope to relaunch the 2 daily transversal lines that existed until 2010: Irun – Bayonne – Pau – Toulouse – Lyon – Geneva and Irun – Marseille – Nice – Ventimiglia to join the Italian and Swiss rail network. “Yes to the night train” and the CGT, also recall, the government’s promise to launch the construction of 300 new cars to reconstitute a fleet allowing the creation of 10 new lines, but which has still not been voted on. ” Newly elected deputies are invited to mobilize to include it in the state budget from 2022 they hope.
This article is taken from issue 3892 of La Vie du Rail.
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