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The Transilien is the current name of the network of trains of Banlieue of the National company of the railroads French (the SNCF) in the area Île-de-France. He is the heir to the suburban trains which existed since the end of the 19th century.

“Transilien” is a trade mark, as well as “FOR THE THIRD TIME” or “TGV”, pertaining to the SNCF. Created on September 20th, 1999, it applies exclusively to the Train S of travellers and to the Gare S managed by the “Île-de-France direction” of the SNCF and which respects a minimum schedule of conditions to receive the Transilien label. The network itself is the property of RF (the lines transferred to the RATP do not form part of Transilien, which relates to only the SNCF). Many lines are also used either by passenger trains of broad outlines, including TGV, or by trains of freight.

The lines of the RER (except for the line E) have the effect of crossing Paris right through, thus avoiding correspondences with the users according to their course. Transilien exploits the lines C, D and E of the RER. The lines has, between Nanterre-prefecture and Cergy/Poissy, and B northern (in the north of the station of North) is also exploited by Transilien and thus forms part of its network even if they are also partly exploited by the RATP.

Traffic

Transilien transported 615 million travellers in 2004.

History of the suburban trains

The first Parisian suburban line was open on August 26th 1837 between Paris (Gare Saint-Lazare) and Saint-Germain (the line stops temporarily with the Pecq). This line, most important from the western suburbs, was transferred to the RATP the 1er October 1972 at the time of the startup of the RER has.

The 1er September 1999, the First class is removed in all the Train S of Transilien, like in the RER. It represented at the time only 1% of the travellers. It had already been it in the Métro of Paris in 1991.

The influence of the lines on the urbanization around Paris

The cost of housing and the conditions of Hygiène inside Paris encouraged workmen, then employees working in the capital to go to live in the country Banlieue. The suburban trains allowed them and still allow them to rejoin their employment inside the Île-de-France.

Urbanization around Paris

The topographic charts successive of IGN French show the urbanization of the Parisian suburbs to the wire of the decades close to the stations of the suburban lines. In the area in the south of the capital, these lines follow the bottom of the Vallée S because the steam traction did not support the strong slopes: the urbanization of the plates took place with the advent of the Automobile for the general public during second half of the 20th century. The car makes it possible either to go directly to work, or to be able to live station remotely, where the prices of the grounds and the rents are less low than in the vicinity immediate of the stations.

The geographers employ sometimes expressions coloured to qualify these two periods: the urbanization is done in “thimbles” along the lines of suburban trains (the center of the glove being in Paris), then in “oil task” with the car which makes it possible to live a little more far from the station.

Transilien today

Transilien is divided into five " régions" (which is geographical units suitable for the SNCF and different from the administrative areas of the French State), themselves divided into lines, indicated by a letter, as well as the RER. These five " régions" are Paris Saint-Lazare, Paris Northern, Paris Is, South-eastern Paris and Paris Bank-Left. Their exploitation is complex because the lines, the material and the installations show various features, in particular:

coexistence of signal boxes of various types;
different power supply on certain networks;
sections of lines located in outer suburbs, even except Île-de-France, which multiplies the “missions” of the trains;
exploitation in terminus of the large Parisian stations;
exploitation in terminus/origin/passage with service road/without service road of certain stations of the network;
exploitation in concentric zones;
strong density of circulation;
co-education of the traffics (FOR THE THIRD TIME, Coral Inter-Cities (interregional train, train circulating between several areas), VFE (Traveller-France-Europe: Ex-large Lines), Transilien, the RER and Freight), the network not allowing always to separate flows.

The importance of this network is visible at the time of the specific Grève S of the personnel of the SNCF or when serious technical incidents disturb the network. Thousands of travellers by train arrive late in their employers, even decide not to go there in the event of strike.

Taking into account the geographical extension of the lines, their exploitation is done by concentric zones, in general three, the trains bound for the zones most distant being direct or semi-direct with the crossing from the zones close to Paris. This operating system makes it possible to better balance the occupation of the trains and to shorten run times towards the more distant stations.

Transilien Paris-Is

Transilien Paris-North

Transilien Paris Saint-Lazare

Transilien Paris-Montparnasse

Transilien Paris-Lyon

The material

The material used on Transilien includes/understands:

665 motorized oars including 411 on two levels (3 to 6 cars per oar),
907 cars including 537 on two levels in indissociable elements from 4 to 7 cars
147 electric engines

The renewal of part of this park in progress or is programmed:

60 electric engines PRIMA (numbered 27300) were ordered and are in the course of delivery (15 in 2006,24 in 2007 and balance it in 2008). These engines will replace existing engines (BB 8500 and BB 17000): they will be deployed, in the order, on Paris-Montparnasse (22 machines for Paris Dreux, Paris Mantes via Plaisir, Paris Rambouillet), Paris Saint-Lazare (38 machines for Paris-Mantes by Poissy, Paris-Mantes by Conflans, Paris Pontoise - Gisors-Junction and Paris Argenteuil - Ermont-Eaubonne). On the service roads of Saint-Lazare, these 5 meters longer machines will involve, because of insufficient length of the quays, the removal of a car. N the other hand, the use of oars with 6 cars instead of 7 will make it possible to engage more oars on two levels.

24 oars AGC B 82500 known as Bi-Bi (dual-mode-bicourant) were ordered to replace the oars stainless (bank account number) tractor drawn by the Diesel locos BB 67400 circulating on the network Paris-Is towards Provins and Ferté-Milon. The line of Provins will receive its 19 new oars between December 2007 and August 2008, while the line of Ferté-Milon will receive 5 in 2010 from them. The bank account numbers having been renovated recently (delivered and interior installation Transilien), they will leave on the line Crépy-in-Valois the network Paris-North to replace the railcars Z 6100 circulating since 1965.

an invitation to tender was launched for the ordering of 330 railcars NAT (New Transilien railcar). The October 25th 2006, the SNCF allotted to the Canadian company Bombardier the first section of the market of the renewal of 40% of its rolling stock on the Transilien network. This section corresponds to the delivery of 172 motorized oars being spread out between December 2009 and 2015 for an amount of 4 billion euros. According to the configurations, these oars will be able to propose up to 911 sitted places.

See too

STIF Organization coordinating planning and ensuring the financing of public transport of the Ile de France
Material engine of the SNCF Specifications of the engines, railcars and trailers
List of the stations of the RER

External bonds

Transilien, official site
schedules of your station in real-time: site based on Infogare and is also accessible since a telephone WAP.

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