LGV of the Estuaries

LGV of the Estuaries is a project of Ligne at high speed which would link between them the regions of the arc Atlantique (France), and would also link these regions to the South-east of France.

Southern section

Poitiers - Parthenay - Bressuire - Cholet - Nantes

This mixed section would have three principal utilities:

TGV: it would make it possible to connect Rennes and the remainder of the Brittany to Nantes and the South-west of France (Bordeaux, Toulouse…, via Southern LGV Atlantic Europe) and to the South-east of France (Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Marseilles…, via LGV Massif Central).

TERGV : it would allow " ressusciter" the old line Poitiers - Nantes, of which it could recover certain pieces besides: thus TERGV could connect Poitiers to Nantes by serving Parthenay, Bressuire and Cholet.

Freight: it would allow an rapid access for the Fret coming from the South of France Brittany and particularly the Port authority of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire: as for LGV Massif Central, this port could take part besides in the financing of this line.

Central section

Nantes - Our-Lady-of-Moors - Rennes

This section, probably reserved for the only TGV, would also have two utilities him:

TGV: it would make it possible to connect Rennes to the southern branch (towards south-east and south-west); to connect Nantes to the northern branch (towards the Normandy and the Northern of France); to connect Paris and south of France to Western Brittany via the connections of Massérac (the ways Paris - Quimper would be then a little bit shorter)

TERGV : to connect at high speed both plus big cities of Brittany, Rennes and Nantes; to make future airport of Our-Lady-of-Moors a true alternate airport with the Parisian airports, thanks to fast and direct connections towards Nantes, Rennes, Valves, Lorient, Quimper or Brest.

Northern section

Rennes - Transfers - Caen + a possible mixed skirting of Caen

Here still, this mixed section would cumulate utilities TGV (radial connections Brittany-Normandy-North, but also service roads towards Vire, Granville, Saint-Malo and the Mount-Saint-Michel), TERGV (connections Rennes - Caen, Rennes - Saint-Malo, Rennes - Mount-Saint-Michel and Caen - Saint-Malo.

Advance of the project

To date, only the central section Rennes - Nantes seems really taken into account by the policies, to serve the future airport of Our-Lady-of-Moors. The totality of the project is however included in the project of Transversale the Alps Auvergne Atlantique.

See too

LGV Brittany-Country of the Loire
Tram-train Nantes-Chateaubriant

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