LGV Rhin-Rhône

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SNCF
LGV Rhin-Rhône


TGV
TGV	LGV Sud-Est	TGV	LGV Atlantique
TGV	LGV Rhône-Alpes	TGV	LGV Nord
TGV	LGV Méditerranée	TGV	LGV Est


TER
	Alsace	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
	Haute Normandie	Picardie
	Champagne Ardenne	Lorraine
	Basse Normandie	Bretagne
	Centre	Bourgogne
	Franche Comté	Pays de la Loire
	Poitou-Charentes	Limousin
	Auvergne	Rhône Alpes
	Aquitaine	Midi Pyrénées
	Languedoc Roussillon	Provence Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
	Corse


SNCF Île-de-France/Transilien
	Est	Nord
	Saint-Lazare	Montparnasse
	Lyon


RER
	line A	line D
	line B	line E
	line C

The LGV Rhin-Rhône is a high-speed railway line under construction running between Strasbourg and Lyon, in France. It would be used by TGV trains operated by SNCF, the French national railway company. The eastern branch, a new line between Dijon and Mulhouse, will become a key link in both the North-South and East-West transport corridors. The line will have a large regional, national, and intra-European impact.

1 Route
2 Construction
- 2.1 Eastern branch
3 Finance
4 Journey times
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Route

The North-South line runs between Germany, the north of Switzerland, eastern France, the valleys of the Saône, Rhône, and the Mediterranean arc and finally to Nice (extending to Catalonia).
The East-West line runs through London, Brussels, Lille, Île-de-France, Burgundy, Franche-Comté, south Alsace, southern Baden, and the French and German-speaking Switzerland.

Overall, 12 metropolitan French areas will profit from the project. Twelve million travellers should use the service roads ensured by the LGV Rhine-Rhône beginning in 2012. Its cost is 2,053 billion Euros. The connection of Perrigny, in the south of Dijon, will facilitate the crossing of the node Dijonese railway line for the TGV but also for freight trains. Auxon station will be connected to the station of Besancon-Viotte by a railway line which could be also used for periurban service roads. The construction of the LGV Rhine-Rhône is ensured by Shoed Network of France (RFF).

A total of 12 of France's 21 metropolitan regions will benefit from the project including:

[edit] Construction

Construction of the line has been divided into various sub-projects:

Eastern branch, from Mulhouse to Dijon (190 km from Genlis to Lutterbach)
Western branch, crossing Dijon, joining the LGV near Montbard
Southern branch, from Dijon to Lyon
Northern branch (still in planning stages), from Dijon to Luxembourg

Construction started at the north of Besançon August 7, 2006.

[edit] Eastern branch

The eastern branch is currently the furthest advanced. The finance agreement for the first phase of the eastern branch which connects Villers les Pots (east of Dijon) to Petit-Croix (southeast of Belfort) was signed 28 February 2006. Subsequent to preparatory works in 2005, construction officially started on July 3, 2006 by a ceremony in Villersexel-Les Margny, Haute-Saône. This section is projected to enter service around 2011.