Intercités (IC), known before September 2009 asCorail Intercités, is a brand name used byFrance's national railway company, theSNCF, to denote nonhigh-speed services on the classic rail network in France.[1]
The SNCF established the Intercités brand in January 2006 to capture the remaining, mainly medium distance network ofCorail trains, so called because they use the air-conditioned fleet of Corail coaches introduced by the SNCF from 1975. Intercités covers all the important SNCF routes not served by theTGV network.
Since December 2011, the formerTéoz (long distance trains with obligatory reservation) andIntercités de nuit (overnight sleeper train) brands have been re-integrated and the Intercités brand now covers all non high-speed SNCF national network passenger services. In October 2012, the newsocial-democratFrench Government announced increased funding for Intercités services, as part of a new transport strategy.[2]
The Intercités network consists of the following lines as of January 2022:[3]
As of January 2022, the Intercités de Nuit network consists of the following lines:[4]