Tgv map

[Flywaver]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5173/5414551611_3eb2630391_o.jpg

 

[T163R]

OMG that's beautiful thanks very much

 

[Flywaver]

Always knew they did a fair few destinations off the HSLs but im quite amazed how many! Plus the Cherbourg - Dijon service has stopped. On the classic lines is it 200kmh max or more?

 

[Daimler]

That is a superb map...

 

[T163R]

Always knew they did a fair few destinations off the HSLs but im quite amazed how many! Plus the Cherbourg - Dijon service has stopped. On the classic lines is it 200kmh max or more?

The trains (incl. TGV) don't usually run faster than 200 km/h on the classic lines, but the max. speed on these lines is 220 km/h.

 

[williamn]

Does France have any cross country services? All seems very Paris-centric

 

[jopsuk]

That is just the TGV map- they do have other services, though I'm not so sure as to their extent.

It would be nice if the map though showed which parts of those routes are on LGV and which parts Lignes Classiques

 

[Gordon]

That is just the TGV map- they do have other services, though I'm not so sure as to their extent.

It would be nice if the map though showed which parts of those routes are on LGV and which parts Lignes Classiques

On this map the blue lines are the actual dedicated high speed new build lines:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Carte_TGV.svg/568px-Carte_TGV.svg.png

Briefly, essentially the dedicated new-build high speed lines are (in rough chronological order:

LGV Sud-Est
Original LGV Sud-Est: Paris - Sathonay-Rillieux (Lyon suburbs)
Sud-Est Lyon by-pass extensions: jct off original Lyon line - Valence TGV – south of Valence.
plus various short branches to link old to new lines (eg Aisy - Pasilly which allows TGVs to get onto the classic Paris - Dijon main line)

LGV Atlantique
Paris Montparnasse (uses reused alignment of a never completed railway to Chartres) then to Courtalain (southwest of Chartres) where it splits to go to Le Mans and Tours (just south of)

LGV Nord
Paris (Gonesse) – Lille (Fretin triangle) – Calais – Channel Tunnel and Fretin – Belgian border

LGV Jonction
Links LGV Nord and LGV Sud Est via Marne la Vallee

LGV Mediterannee
Runs off Lyon by-pass and down the Rhone valley corridor then splits, on branch goes to just short of Nimes and one to just short of Marseille


LGV Est
Paris suburbs – Baudrécourt (near Metz and Nancy). Second phase onto Strasbourg now under construction


LGV Rhin Rhone
Phase 1 opens December:
Villers-les-Pots (near Dijon) - Petit Croix (Belfort): 140 Km

 

[T163R]

Does France have any cross country services?

Of course they have

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Briefly, essentially the dedicated new-build high speed lines are (in rough chronological order:


LGV Jonction
Links LGV Nord and LGV Sud Est via Marne la Vallee

LGV Mediterannee
Runs off Lyon by-pass and down the Rhone valley corridor then splits, on branch goes to just short of Nimes and one to just short of Marseille

LGV Est
Paris suburbs – Baudrécourt (near Metz and Nancy). Second phase onto Strasbourg now under construction

Somewhere in the time scale between those three is HS1 isn't it? Although I'd suggest a better name for it would be the LGV Angleterre ( just to rub our foot dragging politicians' noses in it! )

 

[Gordon]

Somewhere in the time scale between those three is HS1 isn't it?

Well, no, because my list was a list of French LGVs not UK ones...

 

[EWS 58038]

Does France have any cross country services? All seems very Paris-centric

Well... Lille to Marseille sounds pretty much Cross country to me my friend.