SNCF presented the first train TGV Euroduplex Oceane . Called fourth generation “4 +” of the train, waiting for the fifth promised for 2024, it is intended to serve the greater Southwest with the commissioning of the high-speed line Tours – Bordeaux.
By December 2016, the first two blocks of an order of 40 units for an amount of € 1.3 billion will be in commercial service until 20 trains will be ready for July 2, 2017 with the commissioning of the LGV Tours-Bordeaux.
To ensure from winter 2017-2018 to 320 km / h daily 68 TGV Paris-Bordeaux (35 000 places available, the equivalent of five A 320!) The fastest of which require 2:00 04. While 12 will serve Toulouse (4:09 at best) in a bid irrigating entire Southwest. Poitiers and La Rochelle in Dax, Pau and Bayonne.
All trains would be delivered at the end of 2019. Their facilities have been redesigned to obtain 556 seats (+ 20% compared with the TGV Atlantique and + 10% compared to existing trains Duplex) with optimized spaces and “more “all too prominent in the first and second class. Guillaume Pepy summed up in the formula of “three Cs” that would combine comfort, connectivity (WiFi Internet more instead, passenger information] and Capacities, since rowing double unit would host 1112 travelers!