The new TGV m Of the SNCF (TGV Inoui 2025 officially baptized continues its final high -speed tests. Since June 2023, the fifth generation of the train manufactured by ALSTOM has entered its test campaign in the national rail network.
The admission tests that consist of testing “the operation of the train, reproducing the configurations and contexts that you can fulfill throughout your life (degraded modes, specific climatic conditions, individual points …)” are successfully completed since August according to planning, according to our information.
This is the last straight line to finish the admission file that will be sent by Veritas office to the European Railway Security Agency (EUAR) and EPSF (public railway security establishment) and, therefore, lead to their approval and obtain the marketing authorization.
If things advance according to the schedule, the maneuvering room remains close since the approval objective is established in early 2026, while SNCF travelers still plans a commercial launch “principles of 2026”. According to a union of the railway company, TGV M will not be launched before April 2026 (service B in jargon), but questioned that the operator still performs a first circulation as soon as possible in the year despite the incompressible deadlines for approval.
Narrow maneuvering margin
On LinkedIn, Vincent Mallet, director of the production of evidence prior to the exploitation for the new TGV indicates that a train made a few days ago “its first high -speed walk (…) It is also distinguished as a first series of the future Inoui TGV received by SNCF travelers. Therefore, it is a first group of SNCF and for the future of high speed at the speed. At the velocity. According to our information, this reception cannot be long.
The main objective for SNCF travelers waiting for this TGV M Messiah To better absorb the increase in train demand, it is not to lose the meeting place for the next 2026 vacation. “We are missing the trains. We are fighting with the existing trains,” Chistophe Fanichet regularly regularly regrets, pattern of SNCF travelers.
Commissioner in 2018, the first copies had to start tracing commercially at the end of 2023-START 2024, then for the second half of 2025, So for this winter. The delivery rhythm would be 12 trains per year since 2026 with an objective of 15 trains in 2027/2028 and then 18 trains in 2028. SNCF travelers completely finances the order 115 Rames TGV M for 3.5 billion euros. Fifteen of these trains will be dedicated to the Italian market.
Now we can visit the TGV M with the Apple Vision Pro helmet
The expectation and interest in this new train are strong and SNCF travelers intend to make the buzz. The operator has just launched an immersive experience application to the holders of the virtual reality headphones Apple Vision Pro. The user discovers in 3D this new generation train, in particular the cars 1 and second or the new Bistro car that now occupies 2 floors, connected by a ladder.
“This application is part of the new immersive digital wave, transported by mixed reality technologies that postpone the boundaries between real and virtual,” says the operator.
Source: BFM TV
