Slower journeys, but less expensive. Since this Thursday, SNCF has been selling train tickets between Paris and Brussels at low prices, on Ouigo Train Classique routes.
These trips will be possible from December 19, indicates the SNCF, and will cost between 10 and 59 euros one way for adults, and “even at the last minute”. Fares will start at 5 euros for children, specifies the SNCF, which adds that large luggage is included free of charge in the tickets. Animals can also travel, with a 10 euro ticket.
Three daily round trips will be offered between Gare du Nord, in Paris, and Brussels-Midi station. These “slow” Ouigo trains will also serve Creil, in the Oise, Aulnoye-Aymeries, in the North, and Mons, in Wallonia, near the Franco-Belgian border.
3 hour journeys
These trips will be made aboard Ouigo Classic Trains, that is to say trains slower than the Ouigo or inOui TGVs. While a Paris-Brussels TGV trip takes 1 hour 20 minutes, these journeys last around three hours.
Other “slow” connections already exist in Ouigo, between Paris and Nantes, Paris and Lyon, and Paris and Rennes, recalls the SNCF. These trains also pass through the stations of Chartres, Le Mans, Angers, Blois-Chambord, Dijon, Mâcon, and even Laval. These Ouigo trains are generally old trains reused by the SNCF, which compete with the Intercités, and which are repainted in pink and blue, the color of the Ouigo brand.