LGV Rhin-Rhône

LGV Rhin-Rhône Branche Est
LGV Rhin-Rhône schema
Overview
Type	High-speed rail
Status	Operational, partly under construction
Locale	France (Burgundy, Franche-Comté)
Termini	Petit-Croix, near Mulhouse Villers-les-Pots, near Dijon
Stations	Gare de Besançon Franche-Comté TGV, Gare de Belfort - Montbéliard TGV
Operation
Opened	11 December 2011
Owner	SNCF Réseau
Operator(s)	SNCF
Rolling stock	TGV Duplex TGV Sud-Est TGV Réseau TGV POS Siemens Velaro D (from 2014)
Technical
Line length	140 km (87 mi)
Number of tracks	Double track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	25 kV 50 Hz
Operating speed	320 km/h (200 mph)
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Inaugural train (with pres. Nicolas Sarkozy on board) on the first stretch of the LGV Rhin-Rhône, 8 September 2011, near Genlis.

The LGV Rhin-Rhône (Ligne à Grande Vitesse) is a high-speed railway line, the first in France to be presented as an inter-regional route rather than a link from the provinces to Paris,^[1] though it actually is used by some trains to/from Paris. The first phase of the eastern branch opened on 11 December 2011. Construction of its second phase was expected to start in 2014 but has unclear funding at this stage.

If completed, LGV Rhin-Rhône would have three branches:

• The Eastern branch, 190 km (120 mi) from Genlis, near Dijon to Lutterbach, near Mulhouse, of which 140 km (87 mi) have been built


• The Western branch, crossing Dijon, joining the LGV Sud-Est near Montbard and making the line a connection between Dijon and Paris


• The Southern branch, from Dijon to Lyon
  

The construction of the latter two branches and of the second phase of the Eastern branch is currently unfunded.

Map of France showing LGVs. LGV Rhin-Rhône is shown in shades of blue, south-east of Paris.

Running north-south, the Southern branch line would help connect Germany, the north of Switzerland, and eastern France on the one hand with the valleys of the Saône, Rhône, the Mediterranean arc and finally Catalonia on the other. The east-west Eastern and Western branches lines would help connect on the one hand London, Brussels, Lille and Île-de-France (i.e., Paris and surroundings) with Burgundy, Franche-Comté, south Alsace, southern Baden, and Switzerland on the other.

A connection will be built at Perrigny, south of Dijon, to serve TGV and freight trains. Auxon station will be connected to Besançon-Viotte station by a railway line which could be also used for commuter trains.

It is projected that 12 million passengers per year will use the LGV Rhine-Rhône service.^[2]

Contents

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  1 Eastern branch
  
  
  
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    1.1 Finance
    
  
  
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    1.2 Construction
    
  
  
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    1.3 Journey times
    
  
  
  
  


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  2 See also
  


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  3 References
  


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  4 External links
  

Eastern branch

The first phase of the eastern branch runs 140 km (87 mi) of the 190 km planned length, connecting Villers-les-Pots (east of Dijon) to Petit-Croix (southeast of Belfort), was officially opened by President Nicolas Sarkozy on 8 September 2011,^[3] with passenger services starting on 11 December 2011.^[4]

The eastern branch is used by TGV trains operated by SNCF, the French national railway company. It will become a key link in both the North-South and East-West transport corridors. The line carries regional, national, and intra-European traffic. Mulhouse provides connection to Basel, Switzerland, and then to southwestern Germany and northwestern Switzerland.

Finance

The financing agreement for the first phase of the eastern branch was signed on 28 February 2006. The estimated cost of the first section of the eastern branch is 2.312 billion euros, shared between many organisations.^[5]

The largest contributors of funds are the Government of France (€751 million), the maintainer of the French rail network RFF (€642 million) and the European Union (€200 million).^[3] Significant funding also came from the three regions of France that the line travels through: Franche-Comté (€316 million), Alsace (€206 million) and Burgundy (€131 million). A further €66 million was funded by the Government of Switzerland.^[3]

Construction

Preparatory works began in 2005, and construction officially started on 3 July 2006 with a ceremony in Les Magny, Haute-Saône. Actual construction of the first section started north of Besançon on 7 August 2006.

Réseau Ferré de France appointed French engineering and consulting companies Setec and Egis to build the line. The construction of the Eastern branch was divided into two sections :

• The first section is 140 km (87 mi) long, running from Villers-les-Pots, Côte-d'Or (east of Dijon) to Petit-Croix, Territoire de Belfort (east of Belfort). This section opened for service on 11 December 2011.^[6]
  


• The second section, for which construction was initially planned to begin in 2014 but is not funded yet, would add 50 km (31 mi) length to the line. This section would complete the eastern branch from Villers-les-Pots to Dijon, Côte-d'Or, with 15 km (9.3 mi) in the west, and from Petit-Croix to Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, with 35 km (22 mi) in the east.

Journey times

Upon completion of the first section of the eastern branch, best journey time are:^[7]

from	to	before	after
Dijon	Strasbourg	3h25	2h00
Dijon	Frankfurt	6h30	3h40
Besançon	Marseille	4h15	4h00
Belfort-Montbéliard TGV	Paris	3h25 from Belfort 3h40 from Montbéliard	2h25
Strasbourg	Lyon	4h45	3h35

See also

• High-speed rail


• TGV

References

1. 
   ^ Murray Hughes (5 September 2007). "Inter-regional TGV line will have an international impact". Railway Gazette International..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
   


2. 
   ^ Railway Gazette, Presidential opening for LGV Rhin-Rhône, 8 september 2011.
   


3. 
   ^ ^abc "Presidential opening for LGV Rhin-Rhône". Railway Gazette International. 8 September 2011.
   


4. 
   ^ "LGV Rhin-Rhône opens". Railway Gazette International. 12 December 2011.
   


5. 
   ^ Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, Le financement de l'infrastructure, consulted 28 December 2007
   


6. 
   ^ "Inauguration of the TGV Rhine-Rhone high speed line". UIC eNews Nr 254. International Union of Railways. 9 September 2011.
   


7. 
   ^ "Présentation de la LGV Rhin-Rhône". Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing. 1 June 2007. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
   

External links

• Ligne à Grande Vitesse Rhin-Rhône


• Association Trans-Europe TGV Rhin-Rhône Méditerranée


• RFF


• 
  Inter-regional TGV line will have an international impact Murray Hughes, Railway Gazette International
  

v t e High-speed rail in France
Lines in service	LGV Atlantique LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire LGV Est LGV Interconnexion Est LGV Méditerranée LGV Nord LGV Rhin-Rhône (Eastern branch) LGV Rhône-Alpes LGV Sud-Est LGV Sud Europe Atlantique LGV Perpignan–Barcelona
Line under construction	LGV Nîmes–Montpellier
Planned or projected lines	LGV Bordeaux–Spain LGV Bordeaux–Toulouse LGV Interconnexion Sud LGV Montpellier–Perpignan LGV Normandie LGV Picardie LGV POCL LGV Poitiers–Limoges LGV Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur LGV Rhin-Rhône (Western and Southern branches) LGV Toulouse–Narbonne LGV Lyon–Turin
Canceled projects	LGV des Titans
Rolling stock	TGV 2N2 TGV Atlantique TGV Duplex TGV PBKA TGV POS TGV Réseau/PBA TGV Sud-Est TGV TMST
International services	Artésia Elipsos Eurostar TGV Lyria Thalys
Associated high-speed lines	High Speed 1 HSL 1 HSL 2 HSL 3 Cologne-Aachen HSL 4 HSL-Zuid Madrid-Barcelona
Export trainsets	Acela AVE Class 100 KTX-I
Other	Development of the TGV TGV accidents TGV services TGV stations TGV track construction Transmission Voie-Machine

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Africa	Morocco Casablanca-Tangier
Asia	China Coastal passageway* Beijing–Shanghai Beijing–Hong Kong (Taipei) Harbin–Hong Kong (Macau) Hohhot–Nanning Beijing–Kunming Lanzhou (Xining)–Guangzhou Suifenhe–Manzhouli Beijing–Lanzhou* Qingdao–Yinchuan Lianyungang–Ürümqi Shanghai–Chengdu Shanghai–Kunming Guangzhou–Kunming Guangzhou–Hong Kong Japan Hokkaido Shinkansen Hokuriku Shinkansen Jōetsu Shinkansen Kyushu Shinkansen San'yō Shinkansen Tōhoku Shinkansen Tōkaidō Shinkansen Saudi Arabia Haramain HSR South Korea Gyeongbu HSR Honam HSR Suseo HSR Taiwan Taiwan HSR Turkey Ankara–Pendik Polatlı–Konya Uzbekistan Tashkent–Samarkand Samarkand–Bukhara
Europe	Belgium HSL 1 HSL 2 HSL 3* HSL 4 Finland Kerava-Lahti* St. Petersburg-Helsinki* France LGV Atlantique LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire LGV Est LGV Interconnexion Est LGV Méditerranée LGV Nord LGV Rhin-Rhône LGV Rhône-Alpes LGV Sud-Est LGV Sud Europe Atlantique LGV Perpignan–Barcelona* Germany Cologne–Düren* Cologne–Frankfurt Erfurt–Leipzig Hanover–Würzburg Mannheim–Stuttgart* Nuremberg–Ingolstadt Rastatt–Offenburg Wolfsburg–Berlin Italy Bologna–Florence Florence–Rome Milan–Bologna Milan–Verona Naples–Salerno Rome–Naples Turin–Milan Netherlands HSL-Zuid Norway Gardermoen Line Poland Grodzisk–Zawiercie* Russia Moscow–St.Petersburg* St. Petersburg-Helsinki* Spain Atlantic Axis Barcelona–Perpignan* Madrid–Barcelona Madrid–León Madrid–Malaga Madrid–Seville Madrid–Toledo Madrid–Levante Sweden Botniabanan United Kingdom High Speed 1
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