Introducing the New Caristro: Experience Enhanced Comfort and Aerodynamics on Your Train Journeys in Just One Year!

Alstom press kit, the SNCF explains that no less than 2,000 people worked for the realization of this project, but also that it is the fifth generation of TGV. The SNCF has been working on this project since 2016, called “TGV M” since 2016. In all, it concerns 11 French sites.

Side passenger experience, this train should:

• Offer 20% more space thanks to the layout of seats
• Offer a car to accommodate wheelchair users
• Have an on -board traveler information system (SIVE), for hearing loss
• A three -digit numbering for places, so that passengers can more easily find their headquarters.

Changes in the first and second class

A more “inclusive” provision which concerns first and also second class spaces. A modular headrest, a reader above the tablet and individual sockets for the second class, an electrical inclination of the seat and an armrest on the corridor side to increase the comfort of the first class. Each passenger will have access to more spacious windows.

But the train of the future is not only more comfortable for its passengers, it also responds more to environmental issues. The sink water will be re -used for flush. The lighting is 100% automatic, and evolves depending on the trip. It will be 100% when arriving at the station so that the passengers do not forget their luggage, but will descend 50% throughout the trip. The materials used for seats are 90%recyclable.

“Bistro car” and outside the train

The big novelty of this train is also the bar car, which is completely reinventing itself. Now thought as being a centerpiece of the TGV of the future, the “bistro” will now occupy a whole car and occupy two floors, connected by a staircase. Travelers will be able to find on the first floor a self-service grocery store or fridges, and in the second a space of 28 seats, that the company wants “friendly” and dedicated to consumption.

If the interior of the train experiences a general refreshment, the outside of the vehicle is not to be outdone, since it also changes. The nose in particular, which is marked with a long black ellipse. Its shape is also more dynamic and allows better penetration of air so that the train saves more energy.