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   All go: Ouigo is the low-cost, high-speed subsidiary of SNCF (
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Can high-speed, low-cost train travel work in France?

   The Man Who Pays His Way: France has a version of Ryanair on rails
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   Two weeks from now, at 09.38 on 6 July, a double-deck high-speed train
   will escape from the joyless gloom of Montparnasse station in Paris to
   make the maiden voyage of the Ouigo brand to Toulouse.
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   You could call it third-class travel. But a French traveller sums up
   the future of high-speed, low-cost rail most succinctly: “The price
   difference is bigger than the comfort gap.”
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   All go: Ouigo is the low-cost, high-speed subsidiary of SNCF
   Photography by SNCF