Ouigo
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| Overview | |
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| Franchise(s) | Wholly owned subsidiary of SNCF |
| Main stations(s) |
Marne-la-Vallée, Lyon Saint-Exupéry, Montpellier, Marseille Tourcoing, Rennes, Nantes |
| Other stations(s) | Lyon Part-Dieu, Lyon Perrache, Valence, Nîmes, Avignon, Aix en Provence, TGV Haute-Picardie, Aéroport Charles de Gaulle, Massy TGV, Le Mans and Angers-Saint-Laud. |
| Stations called at | 18 |
| Parent company | SNCF |
| Website | www.ouigo.com |
Times shown are approximate
Ouigo (French pronunciation: [wiˈɡo]) is a French low-cost train service based at Marne-la-Vallée (near Paris) offering services to the north, the north-west and the south-east of France. It is a subsidiary of the French national rail company SNCF, but it is independently run from its parent company. The service was announced in by the head of SNCF, Guillaume Pepy on 19 February 2013, and it launched services on 2 April that year.
Unlike Europe's relatively liberalized airline market (open skies), high speed railways in France (and generally in Europe) are a monopoly owned and operated by the government. However ongoing talks about high speed railways liberalization, targeted for as early as December 2019, and competition from low-cost airlines, as well as the anticipation of a deregulation of the intercity bus market as had happened in Germany the previous year and would occur shortly thereafter in France, led to the creation in 2013 of the Ouigo service.
The idea of service is based on low-cost airlines such as Ryanair and EasyJet; accordingly, Ouigo uses the following practices:
Ouigo offers trains stopping at a number of stations. Unlike standard TGV services, and in order to offer lower fares, the company uses non-major stations for main destinations such as Paris or Lyon. The stations served are: on the Paris to the south east route are Marne-la-Vallée, Lyon Saint-Exupéry, Lyon Part-Dieu, Lyon Perrache, Valence, Nîmes, Montpellier, Avignon, Aix en Provence and Marseille, The north-east to the north-west route are Tourcoing (near Lille) Nantes, Rennes, TGV Haute-Picardie, Aéroport Charles de Gaulle, Massy TGV, Le Mans and Angers-Saint-Laud..
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