After two years of reduced services, the fast train service from Geneva to Paris will be back running on an improved schedule from Monday.
Before the pandemic, the TGV Lyria service already had plans to boost the number of trains a day to the French capital in an effort to compete with the budget airlines. Covid put those plans on hold.
But from next week there will be one more train every day running – meaning a high-speed train to Paris will leave Geneva every 2 hours from 6am to 8pm.
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