Orlyval

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Orlyval
Year opened 1991
Last extension 1991
Rolling stock VAL 206
Stations served 3
Length 7.3 km
Length 4.6 mi
Average interstation 3,650 m
Journeys made 2,500,000 (per annum)
Paris public transport
Métro lines
line 1 line 7bis
line 2 line 8
line 3 line 9
line 3bis line 10
line 4 line 11
line 5 line 12
line 6 line 13
line 7 line 14
RER lines
line A line D
line B line E
line C
Suburban rail (Transilien)
Saint-Lazare Nord
La Défense Est
Montparnasse Lyon
Airport shuttles
CDGVAL Orlyval
Bus
Bus (RATP) Noctilien
  Bus (Optile)  
Tramway
Tramway T1 Tramway T2
Tramway T3 Tramway T4

Orlyval is a small automatic metro which runs a shuttle service to Paris's Orly Airport from the RER network, with which it connects at Antony station on line B.

It was opened on October 2, 1991, the second line to use the VAL automatic metro.

The construction was controversial: the competing proposal for a public transport link to the airport involved a railway line integrated to the RER network, which would have allowed trains from various origins to serve the airport. The shuttle option was seen as the least integrated with the rest of the network.

Initially it was run privately by Matra, but because construction and operating costs were too high to generate profits, the line was later passed over to the publicly owned RATP. It remains, however, the only public transport link in the Paris region on which the Carte Orange travel pass is not valid.

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Geographically accurate path of Paris Orlyval.
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Geographically accurate path of Paris Orlyval.
An Orlyval shuttle arriving at the Orly - Sud station
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An Orlyval shuttle arriving at the Orly - Sud station

[edit] List of Orlyval stations

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