New on track. The service of night trains to the southwest quarter of the France will be modified from December 10, with the creation of a branch to Aurillac and the diversion by Montpellier of the line to Perpignan and Cerbère, said Thursday SNCF Voyageurs.
The city of Aurillac will now be served by a daily round trip during the holiday periods of zone C, and on Friday and Sunday evenings in each direction outside these holidays, with stops in Saint-Denis-près-Martel, Bretenoux-Biars and Laroquebrou. This new link promised in 2021 by the Prime Minister at the time Jean Castex will be coupled with the night train to Rodez, the cars being separated in Brive-la-Gaillarde.
The resorts of the Basque coast served
The service to Cerbère - also daily during the school holidays of zone C, the nights from Friday to Saturday and from Sunday to Monday the rest of the year - will run from December along the Mediterranean coast via Nîmes Centre, Montpellier Saint-Roch, Sète, Agde and Béziers, before returning to its usual route from Narbonne. The stations of Saint-Gaudens, Carcassonne, Castelnaudary and Lézignan will now be served by TER connections.
As for the Paris-Lourdes line, it will pass every day through Dax, Bayonne, Orthez, Pau, Lourdes and Tarbes, with a TER connection in Bayonne to serve the stations of the Basque coast, Biarritz, Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Hendaye. Night trains, attached to the Intercités (officially "trains of balance of the territory") are subsidized by the State.
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