Given the small fleet of Renfe which can run in 🇫🇷 (9 ageing S-100F and hopefully very soon 10 S-106F), you can't serve Paris, Lyons, Toulouse, Marseilles with decent frequency.

Marseilles Is more North - South than East - West.

Once Old Oak Common - Curzon Street opens, 🇬🇧 public will start craving for more 😋

Which other areas?

I'm afraid yes 😬😬😬

Paris - Lyons - Montpellier -Barcelona can be a good start, with decent frequency (1 tp2hrs)

As HSLs Bordeaux - Toulouse/Dax + Burgos - San Sebastián open,

. Paris - Bordeaux - Madrid

. Bordeaux - Marseilles

. Bilbao - Toulouse

That would bequite a nice network, inc. synergies with AVE in 🇪🇦.

Yes, 3 lines for the time being.

Or maybe Flixbus to Karlsruhe or Strasbourg to catch a TGV there?

December 2027? 🤭

For the time being, Renfe gas other 🐠 to fry home in 🇪🇦.

Later in, all AVE services through la Jonquera will focus on Lyons and Paris.

Marseilles and Toulouse are temporary distractions.

This was a very stupid decision indeed 🤐

Where's the point in a rail-air link if the buffers are in the outskirts of an increasingly congested city? 🙄🤔🤯

Haven't some preparatory works begun?

It's really saddening, yes.

The user charges paid to Réseau ought to include regular outer cleaning.

I've never understood why Hamburg (2.5M) and Leipzig-Halle (1M) nowadays remain so poorly connected.

There's potential for 2-3 tph.

It more or less seems like a stop-gap measure.
Or maybe TrainOSE will create a lower, slower class of trains to operate these EMUs.

Around Sydney and Perth.

Some will feature IC interiors. Where will those run?

If TrainOSE wants to expand its IC offer, getting 2nd-hand IC carriages from TI could be an option.

Maybe some carriages can be released by those new Coradia Stream EMUs.

I really wonder whether TrainOSE has enough spare SGP carriages for a loooooonnngg return duty to Sofia.

Demand keeps rising on Athens - Thessaloniki.
@steroumel.bsky.social probably knows 🙂