{"id":266764,"date":"2025-07-16T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266764\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:01:13","slug":"frances-first-private-high-speed-train-depot-to-open-as-velvet-gears-up-for-2028-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266764\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s first private high-speed train depot to open as Velvet gears up for 2028 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Private TGV line concessionaire LISEA will build France\u2019s first independently operated maintenance depot on the main TGV corridor to France\u2019s southwest, investing over 200 million euros in the project. The new site just south of Bordeaux will serve Proxima\u2019s Velvet trains, the country\u2019s first fully private domestic high-speed service, from 2028 \u2014 a major milestone in breaking SNCF\u2019s control over rolling stock maintenance infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSubscribe to gain access to all news<\/p>\n<p>Already have a subscription? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railtech.com\/login\/?redirect_to=%2Fall%2F2025%2F07%2F16%2Ffrances-first-private-high-speed-train-depot-to-open-as-velvet-gears-up-for-2028-launch%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tChoose your subscription<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWant to read this article for free?<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong>one free article per month<\/strong>. Enter your email and we&#8217;ll send you a free link to access the full article. No payment required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Private TGV line concessionaire LISEA will build France\u2019s first independently operated maintenance depot on the main TGV corridor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[83381,101619,101620,2000,299,36,54156,6084,101621,101622,664,52046,42554,101623,47870,47872,25644,101624,101625,101626,101627,101628],"class_list":{"0":"post-266764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-alstom","9":"tag-avelia-horizon","10":"tag-depot","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-high-speed-rail","15":"tag-infrastructure","16":"tag-lisea","17":"tag-marcheprime","18":"tag-open-access","19":"tag-proxima","20":"tag-rail-infrastructure","21":"tag-rail-investment","22":"tag-rail-liberalisation","23":"tag-railway-competition","24":"tag-sncf","25":"tag-sncf-reseau","26":"tag-tgv","27":"tag-tours-bordeaux-line","28":"tag-train-maintenance","29":"tag-velvet"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114863281642091502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}