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The Ligne à Grande Vitesse Est européenne (East European High Speed Line), typically shortened to LGV Est, is a French high-speed rail line that connects Vaires-sur-Marne (near Paris) and Vendenheim (near Strasbourg).
The International Transport Forum described the current status of the French railways in their paper "Efficiency indicators of Railways in France": [17] The success of the TGV is undeniable (Crozet 2013). Work started in September 1975 on the first high-speed rail (HSR) line, between Paris and Lyon, and it was inaugurated in September 1981.
The following link to SNCF stations, grouped by region (SNCF managed RER stations with no other SNCF service are not included on the Île-de-France page – see List of stations of the Paris RER for a full listing of RER stations): List of SNCF stations in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; List of SNCF stations in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
LGV Paris Orléans Clermont-Ferrand Lyon On 30 July 2010, the government of then President Sarkozy announced that it expected to start work on a second LGV between Paris and Lyon between 2020 and 2030. The train line would run via Orléans and Clermont-Ferrand, at a length of 410 km, and is expected to cost €12bn. [22]
A high-speed train TGV Duplex from the SNCF TGV 4402 operation V150 reaching 574 km/h (357 mph) on 3 April 2007 near Le Chemin. SNCF operates almost all of France's railway traffic, including the TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, meaning "high-speed train"). In the 1970s, the SNCF began the TGV high-speed train program with the intention of ...
Travel times by road in Metropolitan France from Paris Two high-speed TGV trains at Paris-Gare de l'Est. Transportation in France relies on one of the densest networks in the world with 146 km of road and 6.2 km of rail lines per 100 km 2. It is built as a web with Paris at its center. [1]
This is a list of railway lines in France, belonging either to the national network (SNCF Réseau) or to private owners. High speed lines (LGV, managed by the SNCF) [ edit ]
French TGV network as of 2019. The first high-speed railway line outside of Japan, LGV Sud-Est, opened to the public between Paris and Lyon on 27 September 1981. Contrary to its earlier fast services, SNCF intended TGV service for all types of passengers, with the same initial ticket price as trains on the parallel conventional line.