For over 20 years, SNCF Group teams have been developing initiatives and partnerships to make train travel more accessible to everyone. Together with 9 disability non-profits, we’re expanding programmes like accessibility simulations which help our teams experience what travel is like for passengers with a disability or limited mobility. Our accessibility efforts cover everything from raising awareness of sign language, to highlighting the challenges faced by passengers in wheelchairs, to co-designing accessible layouts for our new TGV INOUI trainsets with our non-profit partners.

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we organized a sign language workshop for passengers aboard an Intercités train. Sophie Vouzelaud, a deaf influencer and conference speaker, taught SNCF passengers a few expressions in sign language and helped raise awareness about deafness.

We regularly hold accessibility simulations to help our teams understand main obstacles people encounter when travelling in wheelchairs. Our Accessibility Department also works with the Centre for Rolling Stock Engineering (CIM) and partner non-profits to design the layout and furnishings of our 5th generation TGV trainsets, which will enter service in 2026.

After a year of work by SNCF Réseau’s teams to make trains more accessible to people on the autism spectrum, the Group signed a charter on 2 April 2025 at France’s national autism resource centre, Maison de l’autisme. This charter commits SNCF and its partners to better consider the needs of autistic passengers across the entire rail sector. We’re also testing a sensory break room specially designed for people on the spectrum at Paris-Est station, available through the end of 2025.