TGV Lyria
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TGV Lyria is the brand name used for TGV railway lines connecting France and Switzerland. Lyria is also a corporation that runs the service using the staff of the SNCF in France and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) in Switzerland – the staff consists of one French and one Swiss train manager on the whole journey.
Corporate status
Initially, the corporation was a groupement d'intérêt économique (GIE: "group of (shared) economic interest") between SNCF and SBB CFF FFS whose goal was the creation of a TGV service between Gare de Lyon (Paris) and Lausanne/Bern. Today, the corporation is officially a limited company according to French law (Société par actions simplifiée / SAS[2]). SNCF owns 74% of the capital and SBB CFF FFS the remaining 26%.[3]
History
Starting in mid-1961, the route between Paris and Lausanne was operated by the Trans Europ Express Cisalpin trains, which continued on to Milan. On 22 January 1984 this service was replaced by a new TGV service with tri-current locomotives, though service was cut back to Lausanne. In the spirit of the previous European expresses, the trains were christened with names: Champs-Élysées, Lemano, Lutetia and Cisalpin. On 31 May 1987 the train service was rebranded as EuroCity. By this time, a service to Bern was in place as well.[4]
The GIE was created for the first time on 23 May 1993, to operate the segments between Paris and Lausanne/Bern. Service to
At the end of 2005, Lyria transported its 3 millionth passenger.
After the opening of the
In February 2011, service improvements were announced, with a fleet of 19 TGV POS trains offering increased frequencies.[6]
Since 12 December 2010, the travel time on the Paris–Geneva line has improved with the reconstruction of the
In 2011, with the completion of the LGV Rhin-Rhône, travel time between Paris and Basel/Zurich has been reduced by 30 minutes, passing through Dijon, Mulhouse and Basel. The departure station in Paris has returned to Gare de Lyon.[4]
Visual identity
The service, first called «Ligne de Cœur» was part of the TGV network originally. The logo evolved as the name Lyria appeared, and as the TGV logo changed. The TGV Lyria trains, originally in the blue and grey TGV livery with an additional red band through the train and the TGV Lyria logo on the bar coaches and the power cars, were re-liveried in 2012 with a variation of the new «Carmillon» TGV livery, except the doors which were repainted in brown instead of the pink present on the re-liveried TGVs and other re-liveried SNCF rolling stock.[7]
- Evolution of the TGV Lyria logos
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First TGV Lyria logo
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from June 2009 to 2011
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2011-2017
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since 2017
Current services
In 2020 Lyria ran the following routes, using double-deck trainsets equipped with Wi-Fi:[8]
- Geneva - Marseille: 1 roundtrip per day (in summer months); travel time 3 h 30 min from Marseille.
- Geneva - Paris: 8 roundtrips per day; minimal travel time 3 h 11 min
- Lausanne - Geneva - Paris: 3 roundtrips per day; minimal travel time 3 h 57 min
- Lausanne - Dijon - Paris: 3 roundtrips per day; minimal travel time 3 h 41 min
- Zürich - Basel – Mulhouse – Paris: 6/5 round trips per day; travel time 4 h 4 min from Zürich and 3 h 4 min from Basel
Rolling stock
For the route between Paris and Lausanne, Bern, and Zurich, new
Services to Geneva were operated using "classic" TGV Sud-Est equipment; that is, bi-current sets relieved by TGV Duplex. Trains, with the exception of those running to Geneva, used to carry the Ligne de cœur logo; this has been slowly replaced in 2006 with the TGV Lyria logo and only the old red-border livery remains. The CFF logo was also added to their cars during April 2006.
Since the opening of the
References
- ^ "Legal notice-TGV Lyria". tgv-lyria.com. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
- ^ "TGV Lyria". Lyria SAS. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
- ^ "OPÉRATEURS FERROVIAIRES AUTORISÉS". EPSF (in French). Retrieved 2018-04-04.
- ^ a b c d e "TGV Lyria - About Lyria". 2012-06-07. Archived from the original on 2012-06-07. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- ^ a b c "About Lyria". www.tgv-lyria.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- ^ "Lyria enhancements agreed". Railway Gazette. 17 February 2011. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
- ^ Raffin, Sophie. "Le TGV Lyria prend des couleurs". Deplacements Pros, le quotidien du business travel, du voyage d'affaires et des déplacements professionnels (in French). Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- ^ TGV LYRIA - Transport plan from 15 December 2019 (PDF), at tgv-lyria.com
- ^ "Lyria change de braquet". TrainCabView (in French). 2012-09-27. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
- ^ Red look for refurbished TGV-Lyria Euroduplex. Railway Gazette, 30 January 2019. Slightly different seat capacity quoted according to TGV Lyria. News from 15 December 2019. mycwt.com, CWT, November 2019
External links
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