Picardy arc

The term of Picardy arc renvoit has two distinct projects: the creation of a great Paris by-pass and that of a Line at high speed nonofficial, connecting Rouen to Rheims via Amiens and St-Quentin. This last project is not official and was buried in the middle of the years 1990.

The project of line at high speed

Functionalities

The particular geography of this line gives him several functionalities:

radial Relations Paris-Amiens, Paris-St-Quentin-Maubeuge, Paris-Laon
Relations Lille-Rheims-Strasbourg province-province, Lille-Amiens-Rouen-Caen, Caen-Rouen-Amiens-St-Quentin-Rheims-Strasbourg, Lyon-Amiens…
International relations Rouen-Amiens-Brussels
Service road of the port authority of Le Havre since the Belgium and the Germany for the component freight

Layout considered

The line would start near Rheims on LGV Is European by a triangle. A connection would allow an access to the central station of Rheims from Lille. Then the LGV would follow A26 roughly speaking. Two connections would give access to Laon, two others the access to St-Quentin. The LGV would cross Northern LGV on the level of the station of Ablaincourt-Press: at this place, four connections would be built to inter-connect the two lines, and Ablaincourt-Press parks it (called station of the beets) would gain then a utility like parks interconnection. In Longueau (close to Amiens), two connections would serve Amiens (more possibly a new station). The line would continue then towards Rouen, served by a connection; a possible construction of LGV Normandy would make it possible to create an allowing raccordemnt between the two lines of the TGV Lille-Caen, even Amiens-Rennes.

Run times considered

Paris-Amiens and Paris-St-Quentin 40-45mn
Lille-Amiens and Lille-St-Quentin 30-35mn
Lille-Rouen and Lille-Rheims 1:00
Lille-Strasbourg 2:20

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