Elipsos ELIPSOS INTERNACIONAL, S.A. is a company governed by Spanish law which was set up in 2001 by Spanish RENFE

RENFE

Renfe Operadora is the state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains on the 1668-mm "Iberian gauge" and 1435-mm "European gauge" networks of the Spanish national railway infrastructure company ADIF .- History :The name RENFE is derived from that of the former Spanish National...

 and French SNCF

SNCF

The SNCF , is France's national state-owned railway company. SNCF operates the country's national rail services, including the TGV, France's high-speed rail network...

 on a 50-50 basis. It was created in 2001 to handle the logistics of Trenhotel

Trenhotel

Trenhotel as its name suggests, is a long distance, high quality overnight train service which uses Talgo tilting trains technology and sleeping cars developed by the Spanish rail network operator Renfe that operates within the Iberian Peninsula...

 night railway services between Spain

Spain

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 and France

France

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, Spain and Switzerland

Switzerland

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, and Spain and Italy

Italy

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. The ELIPSOS Trenhotel operates with Talgo

Talgo

Talgo is a Spanish manufacturer of railway vehicles. It is best known for a design of articulated railway passenger cars in which the wheels are mounted in pairs, but not joined by an axle, and being between rather than underneath the individual coaches...

 gauge change trains.

Trains managed by Elipsos:

• Francisco de Goya (Madrid
  Madrid
  Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
  
   Chamartin
  Chamartín Station
  Madrid Chamartín is the name of the second major railway station in Madrid, Spain. Positioned on the north side of the city, it was built prior to the time of the 1982 FIFA World Cup, between 1970 and 1975, although subsequent work would be carried on into the early 1980s. At that time it...
  
  -Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
   Austerlitz
  Gare d'Austerlitz
  Paris Austerlitz is one of the six large terminus railway stations in Paris. It is situated on the left bank of the Seine in the southeastern part of the city, in the XIIIe arrondissement...
  
  )
• Joan Miró (Barcelona
  Barcelona
  Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
  
   Estació de França-Paris Austerlitz)
• Pau Casals (Barcelona Estació de França -Zürich Hauptbahnhof)
• Salvador Dalí (Barcelona Estació de França -Milano Centrale)

The Elipsos bed carriages are operated by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and by the different national railway companies. In France the train is pulled by an SNCF locomotive

Locomotive

A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...

, in Italy by a Trenitalia

Trenitalia

Trenitalia is the primary train operator in Italy. Trenitalia is owned by Ferrovie dello Stato, itself owned by the Italian Government. It was created in 2000 following the EU directive on the deregulation of rail transport.-Passenger transport:...

 one, in Spain by a RENFE one and in Switzerland by an SBB CFF FFS one.

The Francisco de Goya departs Paris every night except Saturday at 19:45 during the summer months and less frequently during the winter. During the long journey to Madrid station, customers can take a 3 course meal in the dining car.

The Joan Miró departs Paris every night at 20:34 and arrives Barcelona at 08:24. The other two Elipsos services to/from Barcelona run on alternate nights. In all these trains customers can take dinner and breakfast in the dining car.

The train generally has these classes:

• Reclining seat
• Tourist Class (4-bed accommodation)
• Club Class (1- or 2-bed accommodation with breakfast included)
• Grand Class (1- or 2-bed accommodation with shower/WC, dinner and breakfast included)