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On 28 March 2025, Alstom has signed a contract with the Moroccan National Railway Office (ONCF) worth 781 million EUR to supply up to 18 Avelia Horizon high-speed trains.

On 11 March, 2025, the interior design of the new TGV generation was unveiled at the Gare de Lyon.

On 11 November 2024 another TGV M for SNCF arrived at the VUZ Velim test centre.

The new Eurostar, bringing together Eurostar and Thalys, has launched to customers on 1 October 2023.

On 19 June 2023 in Barcelona Renfe President Raül Blanco announced that on 13 July the operator would start its Barcelona to Lyon service, followed on 28 July by that from Madrid to Marseille.

Renfe has finalised the registration of its Lyon branch and now has the authorisation from the French authorities to start its commercial activity imminently.

Over the two years that OUIGO has been active in Spain, the operator states that 'close on' six million passengers have been carried,

Since last December, the TGV M unit 996 has been tested on the VUZ Velim’s test circle.

On 7 December 2022, TGV M 996 arrived in Velim.

The first pre-series TGV M arrived at the VUZ test base in Velim on 7 December 2022.

On 9 September 2022, the first TGV M was unveiled at the Aytré (La Rochelle) plant.

On 9 September 2022, Christophe Fanichet (Chairman and CEO of SNCF Voyageurs), Alain Krakovitch (Director of TGV-Intercités), Xavier Ouin (Industrial Director of SNCF Voyageurs) and Jean-Baptiste Eyméoud (President, Alstom France) unveiled the production line of the TGV M trains in Alstom's La Rochelle works, after coupling together the power end cars and passenger cars of the unit 997.

On 18 August 2022, Alstom has received an additional order for 15 Avelia Horizon very high-speed trains from SNCF Voyageurs.

After arriving in the Czech Republic on Sunday 5 June 2022, TGV PSE 16 was put on display the following day at the main station in Praha.