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The new high-speed network on line on 10th June 2007

On 10th June 2007, the French and European high-speed rail network will be enjoying an extraordinary advance with the start of commercial service for the new TGV lines.

For the populations, the regions and the countries concerned, the new network constitutes a great opportunity to open up and develop; for SNCF, the French Railways, it represents an important milestone in the development of its domestic and European network, and a new step forward in customer service.
On Sunday, the 10th of June, in the morning, 30 French and foreign cities that were connected to Paris the day before at normal speed will suddenly be served at very high-speed by TGV: 320 kph, a speed never yet experienced in revenue service.


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New high-speed network

20 city-centre stations in the north-eastern quarter of France and a dozen cross-border destinations linked with high-speed to Paris:

    From 10th June 2007, the new network will offer direct links between Paris and 20 city-centre stations in the north-eastern quarter of France; it will also link the French capital to a dozen cross-border destinations.

Journey times, cut back by a third and sometimes even a half from today’s journey times, will afford new opportunities to the populations and regions concerned: better accessibility, which will allow to fulfil travel urges and to lend new touristic and economic life to the regions that will be benefiting from the TGV effect.
Paris will be only 45min from Reims (1h35min presently), 1h25min from Metz, 1h30min from Nantes (almost 3h currently), 2h20min from Strasbourg (4h presently) or 3h20min from Basel, 4h35 from Zurich and less than 4h from Stuttgart and Frankfort.

New cross-border services

To/from Switzerland:

  • 4 round trips daily between Basel and Paris.
  • 2 round trips daily between Zurich and Paris; a third service all the way to/from Zurich will be cut into service in December 2007.

To/from Germany:

 

  • 3 daily services between Paris and Stuttgart. A 4th round trip will be added in December and a direct service to/from Munich.
  • 3 round trips between Paris and Frankfurt 2 of them with a transfer at Saarbrucken. From December 2007, 5 direct round trips with no break of load will be offered between Paris and Frankfurt.

To/from Luxembourg:

  • The target service - 5 round trips to/from Paris daily - will be offered right from the start of service on 10 June 2007.

New direct links between the regions

Thanks to Strasbourg's down-town station and to the three newly-created stations on the high-speed line - Lorraine TGV, Meuse TGV and Champagne-Ardenne TGV – the new TGV lines will offer direct links between the Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne regions on the one hand and the Ile-de-France region and the North, the Southwest and the West of France on the other.
Strasbourg will be only 3hr20min from Lille and 2hr25min from the Charles de Gaulle international airport TGV station; Lorraine TGV station, located between Metz and Nancy, will allow the people of Lorraine to get to Lille in 2hr05min or Marne-la-Vallée Chessy TGV station in a mere 1hr10min: Champagne-Ardenne TGV station for its part will offer direct links with Lille in 1hr25min, with Nantes or Rennes in 3hr15min and 3hr25min respectively, plus a longer ride through France, all the way to Bordeaux in 4hr30min and to Strasbourg on the extreme eastern edge of France in 1hr55min.

Champagne-Ardenne TGV Station:

So, on 10th June 2007, customers will be able to buy tickets for:
With the Champagne-Ardenne TGV station:

  • 8 round trips daily to/from Reims;
  • 3 round trips to/from airport Charles de Gaulle TGV in 30min;
  • 3 round trips to/from Marne-la-Vallée Chessy TGV in 30min;
  • 3 round trips to/from Massy TGV in 1h05min;
  • 2 round trips to/from Charleville-Mezieres, Vitry-le-François, Châlons-en-Champagne and Champagne-Ardenne TGV;
  • 1 round trip to/from Sedan and Rethel.

Following destinations will be afterwards accessible:
With the Champagne-Ardenne TGV station:

  • 3 round trips daily to/from Lille in 1h25min;
  • 1 round trip to/from Nantes;
  • 1 round trip to/from Rennes;
  • 1 round trip to/from Bordeaux.

Strasbourg station

So, on 10th June 2007, customers will be able to buy tickets for:
With the Strasbourg station:

  • 3 round trips to/from airport Charles de Gaulle TGV in 2h25min;
  • 3 round trips to/from Marne-la-Vallée Chessy TGV in 2h25min;
  • 3 round trips to/from Massy TGV in 3h.

Following destinations will be afterwards accessible:
With the Strasbourg station:

  • 3 round trips daily to/from Lille in 3h20min;
  • 1 round trip to/from Nantes;
  • 1 round trip to/from Rennes;
  • 1 round trip to/from Bordeaux.

Lorraine TGV station

So, on 10th June 2007, customers will be able to buy tickets for:
With the Lorraine TGV station:

  • 3 round trips to/from airport Charles de Gaulle TGV in 1h10min;
  • 3 round trips to/from Marne-la-Vallée Chessy TGV in 1h10min;
  • 3 round trips to/from Massy TGV in 1h45min.

Following destinations will be afterwards accessible:
With the Lorraine TGV station:

  • 3 round trips daily to/from Lille in 2h05;
  • 1 round trip to/from Nantes;
  • 1 round trip to/from Rennes;
  • 1 round trip to/from Bordeaux.

Meuse TGV station

So, on 10th June 2007, customers will be able to buy tickets for:
With the Meuse TGV station:

  • 2 round trips from Paris in 1h;
  • 1 round trips to Paris;
  • 1 round trip to/from Marne-la-Vallée Chessy TGV and Massy TGV.

On 27th August 2007 a second round trip from the Meuse TGV station to Paris will be accessible.

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