SNCF Voyageurs and Deutsche Bahn announced it in September. This eight-hour journey will now be accessible with one train per day in each direction.
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It is a journey which goes in the direction of a more integrated Europe of rail. The entry price will be 59.99 euros in second class and 69.99 euros in first class.
A first train will leave Gare de l'Est, in Paris, at 9:55 a.m., in the presence of Jean-Pierre Farandou, CEO of SNCF and Anja Shöllman, director of production at Deutsche Bahn. Scheduled arrival in Berlin at 6:03 p.m. In the opposite direction, an inaugural train will leave Berlin on Monday at 11:54 a.m. It will arrive in Paris at 7:54 p.m.
“For the first time in railway history between the two countries”, the two capitals Paris and Berlin “will be directly connected from city center to city center, at high speed”underlines the SNCF. “This new Paris-Berlin link (…) will also connect the European city of Strasbourg and the German federal capital for the first time at high speed”adds the company. On the German side, it will also serve the Frankfurt and Karlsruhe stations.
The connection will be provided by ICE, German high-speed trains, and not by French TGVs. Since the end of 2023, the two capitals have been linked by a night train;
The two rail operators insist on the ecological argument, emphasizing that a Paris-Berlin train trip emits 2kg of CO2 per passenger, compared to 200 kg for a plane trip.
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