LGV Normandy

LGV Normandy is a project of line at high speed primarily connecting Paris to Normandy.

History

The information system strategic plan of LGV of 1991 laid down already a LGV Normandy. This one would have left the Parisian suburbs and would be separate into two close to Mantes-the-Pretty, a branch slipping by towards Rouen, another stopping close to Evreux. This project was given up by preoccupation with a profitability (the replacement cost of the current corails by TGV would be high whereas the time-saver would be modest). The areas Basse-Normandie and High-Normandy must thus for the moment be satisfied with a simple project of improvement of the infrastructure of the traditional line.

Current project

Officially, the project of LGV Normandy was replaced today by that of fast Liaison Normandy-Valley of the Seine, which envisages an improvement of the existing infrastructure, in particular between Paris and Mantes-the-Pretty, with moreover the construction of a new line between Achères and Épône.

Association ALTRO, as for it, proposes the creation of a shunt Lisieux - Elbeuf of an about sixty kilometers, which would allow a reduction of 56 minutes of Rouen-Caen run time, that is to say more than 50 minutes.

Related projects

a LGV Western Interconnexion would make it possible to serve Defense and Normandy since all the areas served by the TGV.
a Picardy Arc would make it possible to bind Normandy to the North from France, in Brussels, in Picardy and the East of France.
a Transversale the Alps Auvergne Atlantique would make it possible to bind Normandy to the great west, and to bind Paris to Vire and Granville at high speed.

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