The public operator SNCF Voyageurs, a subsidiary of the SNCF Group, has announced a major reorganisation planned for the end of the first quarter of 2026, with the aim of “spending more time with customers” and adapting to the end of its historic monopoly in France.
The group’s interim chairman, Christophe Fanichet, presented on Friday the outlines of this transformation, which will include the creation of two large commercial units.
One of them will focus on open-access trains, which in France are only high-speed trains, operating under the TGV inOui and Ouigo brands. This unit will have a European expansion strategy. Fanichet pointed out that SNCF already holds 43% of the continent’s high-speed market and is looking for further growth in countries such as Italy, where it operates as TGV inOui, and Spain, where it operates as Ouigo.
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The second unit, called “public service delegation”, the name given to the public service delegation in France, will group together the lines operated on behalf of the state, the regions and Ile-de-France, with some 40,000 employees.
As European legislation makes it compulsory to separate the accounts of subsidised and non-subsidised services, this reorganisation will streamline SNCF Voyageurs’ operations.
In addition, two service units will be created: one dedicated to rolling stock and the other to the SNCF Connect digital platform.