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@rail_ @akalanka Ouigo Spain is a different service and company. It uses rebranded Euroduplex trains, as it made it easier for SNCF to get certification, given that they wanted to run inOui Euroduplexes from Barcelona to Paris.

@moof @akalanka no, they aren't

Euroduplexes are the 3rd generation

OuiGo TGV are modified Dasye (2nd generation Duplex)

@rail_ @akalanka we’re talking about Ouigo España. Not Ouigo France

@rail_ @akalanka here’s one in Madrid - Puerta de Atocha - María Zambrano that I photographed and rode in April 2024.

@moof @akalanka a, that makes sense

@rail_ @akalanka it also has Spanish language signage inside including branding the top floor as “cielo” or sky, and the bottom floor as “tierra”, or earth. Their advertising makes a number of puns about being equivalent to flying because they’re taking you to the sky. And of course “el cielo” is the Spanish word for heaven.

@moof @rail_ @akalanka ideally one wants to be in the seventh carriage?

@rail_@bark.lgbt @moof@cupoftea.social @akalanka@masto.es there's fun context to why they're not - the Ouigo ES trains actually used to be multi system capable, running in both Spain and France, before SNCF decided to use them for domestic Spanish routes and tore out the French signalling tech