“Alleo” (or “Aleo”?) to operate franco-german high speed trains

“Alleo” is the name of a new joint venture between SNCF (the French national railways) and DB (the German national railways). The new company is a 50/50 subsidiary of the two (still) state-owned railroad companies and will operate the high speed rail services on the new TGV Est high speed line between Paris and Frankfurt (using German ICE trainsets) and Paris and Stuttgart/Munich (using French TGV POS trainsets).

Services between Paris and Cologne (via Brussels) will continue to be operated by “Thalys”.

Services between Paris and Switzerland (Basel/Zurich) will be operated by the existing operator “Lyria”, which already operates the services from Paris to Geneva, Lausanne, Bern (and Zurich). Lyria is a joint venture between SNCF and SBB.

Thus, the existing project management firm “Rhealys” seems to have fulfilled its role - it’s future seems unclear at this point.

Update: there are conflicting reports as to the exact spelling of this new joint venture. Some put it as “Alleo”, some as “Aleo”… And since there is no official website or anything yet, I guess we just don’t know…

Posted in: Uncategorized | May 28, 2007 11:12 pm

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Last Carriage, on June 2, 2007 @ 7:52 pm

High speed rail link from Paris to Switzerland opens next weekend….

Next Sunday (June 10th, 2007) marks the opening of the new eastern TGV high speed railway line, that will provide fast rail connections from Paris and Strasbourg to Basel, Zurich, Frankfurt and Stuttgart….