LGV the Rhine-Rhone

Geography

LGV the Rhine-Rhone is an original project. Thanks to the double functionality, North-South and East-West, of its branch Is (a new line between Dijon and Mulhouse), it will allow to carry out on the French territory a connection interesting two large European diagonals, its various dimensions - regional, national and European - being naturally complementary:

between the Germany, the north of the Swiss , is France, the valleys of the the Saone and the Rhone and the Mediterranean arc, Catalogne with Nice,
between London, Brussels, Lille, the Île-de-France and the Burgundy, the Franche-Comté, the south Alsace, Southern Bade, the Suisse Germanic and French.

On the whole 12 metropolitan French areas on 21 will profit from the project, initially, those registered on the axis the Rhine - the Rhone - the Mediterranean, of the Alsace to the Languedoc-Roussillon, while passing by the Franche-Comté, the Burgundy and the Rhone-Alps, without forgetting Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure, the Midday-Pyrenees and the Lorraine.

In its East-West dimension, the LGV the Rhine-Rhone interests, in addition to Paris and its area, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and, with a bar of interconnection in the south of the Île-de-France, the Brittany and the Pays of the Loire.

12 million travellers should borrow each year the service roads ensured by the LGV the Rhine-Rhone as from December 2011.

Its cost is 2,312 billion euros. The uneven connection of Perrigny, in the south of Dijon, will facilitate the crossing of the Dijonese rail junction for the TGV but also the trains of freight. Station TGV of Auxon will be connected to the station of Besancon-Viotte by a railway line which could be also used for service roads périurbaines.

The construction of the LGV the Rhine-Rhone is ensured by Rail network of France.

Phases

The project of LGV the Rhine-Rhone was broken up into several phases:

Branche Is, of Mulhouse to Dijon (190 km of Genlis to Lutterbach), with creation of two new stations:

Besancon TGV on the communes of Auxon-Top and Auxon-Dessous;
Belfort-Montbeliard TGV on the commune of Meroux, for the service road of the agglomerations of Belfort and Montbeliard. It will be connected to the Swiss rail network via the Ligne Belfort-Bienne;

Western Branch, crossing of Dijon, connection with line PLM near Montbard;
Southern Branch, of Dijon to Lyon

The branch East is to date most advanced.

The protocol of financing of the 1st phase of this branch Is which will connect Villers-the-Pots (in the east of Dijon) to Petit-Croix (in the south-east of Belfort) was signed on February 28th, 2006. After preliminary works in 2005, the building site started semi-2006. The startup of this section is currently envisaged at the horizon 2011. The first “official” blow of pickaxe was given on July 3rd, 2006 on the commune of Villersexel.

This commune accommodates the base work of the branch Is. This base work will gather all the material and the personnel (3000 people) necessary to the construction of the LGV. It will be mainly fed in material by railway way, via the old line Lure - Loulans-the-Forging mills (unused since 1986) and this from the station of Lure. This feeder will use the layout of the old way to the entry of the commune of Villersexel by the RD486. It will cross this road to circumvent the commune until the base work. Once the construction of the completed LGV (horizon 2011), the line of provisioning will be used as road deviation to the RD486 in order to circumvent the commune of Villersexel.

This project envisages the construction of 148 km new line, for an amount of 2,312 billion current euros.

The financing (except rolling stock) is the following (in million euros):

RF: 642
Swiss: 66
Burgundy: 131
Franche-Comté: 316
Alsace: 206
State: 751
European Union: 200

Run time

After the realization of the 1st phase of the branch Is, run times will be:

Mulhouse-Paris: 2:30 against 3:00 today
Mulhouse-Lyon: 2:25 against 3:45 today
Mulhouse-Dijon: 1:10 against 2:40 today
Strasbourg-Lyon: 3:15 against 4:35 today
Montbeliard-Paris: 2:20 against 3:30 today
Montbeliard-Dijon: 0:50 against 2:15 today
Belfort-Paris: 2:20 against 3:50 today
Belfort-Dijon: 0:50 against 2:15 today
Dijon-Frankfurt: 3:30 against 6:30 today
Dijon-Strasbourg: 2:10 against 3:35 today
Besancon-Marseilles: 3:35 against 4:15 today
Besancon-Zurich: 1:55 against 3:25 today
Paris-Zurich: 3:45 against 4:30 today
Paris-Basle: 2:50 against 3:20 today

In the long term (branch East supplements and connects Southern), run time between Strasbourg and Lyon will be 2:00 05, between Strasbourg and Marseilles of 3:00 15.

See too

Line at high speed

External bonds

To follow the state of construction (RF)
Card of project RF
Association Trans-Europe TGV the Rhine-Rhone the Mediterranean
the TGV the Rhine-Rhone seen by the general advice of [[Territory of Belfort]] the
Association for the site of Trouhaut
Photographs of the advance of the building site
LGV the Rhine-Rhone on Structurae
Blog on the LGV the Rhine-Rhone, articles, photographs, followed work