Elipsos

Spanish railway logistics company
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Elipsos Internacional S.A. was a Spanish company which was set up in 2001 by Spanish RENFE and French SNCF with a 50% share each. It was created to handle the logistics of Trenhotel night railway services between Spain and France, Switzerland and Italy; in 2013 only services to France remained; they were cut back to thrice a week in September 2013, and discontinued on 15 December as the high speed line between France and Spain had opened.[1] The Elipsos Trenhotel operated with Talgo gauge change trains.

Between December 2013 and December 2022, Elipsos handled high-speed trains between France and Spain, sold as "Renfe-SNCF in Cooperation".

Services

Trains managed by Elipsos:

Former trains:

Pau Casals at Zurich HB
Salvador Dalí at Milan Centrale

The Elipsos bed carriages were operated by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and by the different national railway companies. In France the train was pulled by an SNCF locomotive, in Spain by a RENFE one, in Italy by a Trenitalia one and in Switzerland by a SBB CFF FFS one.

The Francisco de Goya departed Paris every night except Saturday at 19:45 during the summer months and less frequently during the winter. As of September 2013 it only ran from Madrid only on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, with the return services from Paris on Fridays, Sundays, and Mondays.

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Trenhotel Joan Miró
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Paris-Austerlitz TER RER Paris Métro
Aubrais-Orléans TGV TER Tram interchange
Limoges Bénédictins TGV TER
Perpignan TGV TER
Pyrenees
tunnel
France
Spain
border
Portbou
Figueres
Girona
Barcelona França

The 'Joan Miró departed Paris every night at 20:34 and arrived Barcelona at 08:24. In all these trains customers could take dinner and breakfast in the dining car. As of September 2013, it only ran from Barcelona only on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, with the return services from Paris on Fridays, Sundays, and Mondays.[3]

The trains generally had these classes:

References

  1. ^ "How to travel by train from London to Spain: Madrid, Barcelona, Seville".
  2. ^ "La ligne de train direct entre Toulouse et Barcelone, c'est terminé". Le Journal Toulousain. 2021-11-09.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2013-10-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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Subsidiaries and brands
Former subsidiaries