Deutsche Bahn & France's SNCF in dispute over high speed train routes
AFX News Limited: 01.18.2006
FRANKFURT - Deutsche Bahn AG and France's SNCF are in a dispute over the coordination of German and French high speed train routes, according to a report to appear in tomorrow's WirtschaftsWoche.
Deutsche Bahn head Hartmut Mehdorn has rejected a request from the French company to open TGV-high speed train routes to Munich on infrastructure maintained by Deutsche Bahn, saying there is insufficient capacity on the line.
This problem will only be overcome, Mehdorn said, if Deutsche Bahn's ICE-high speed trains can in return open routes from Brussels to Paris on SNCF lines.
Head of SNCF, Louis Gallois told the magazine that 'we have not reached an agreement with Deutsche Bahn on this issue'.