The bar carriage of the new high-speed trains. Photo: SNCFOliver Gee · 16 Sep 2016, 12:47Published: 16 Sep 2016 12:47 GMT+02:00Forty new high-speed trains are soon to hit the tracks in France, and they look pretty impressive indeed. All passengers will be able to benefit from Wi-Fi throughout the train, as well as real-time information about the journey. The maiden voyage will be December 11th when a train will run between Paris and Toulouse in the south. Story continues below…The high-speed trains are going to shave 70 minutes off the trip between Paris and Bordeaux, with SNCF predicting that that the faster trains will attract 2.3 million extra passengers a year.

Source: The Local September 16, 2016 11:15 UTC