RER C

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RER C
Year opened 1979
Last extension 2006
Rolling stock Z 5600, Z 8800,
Z 20500, Z 20900
Stations served 84
Length 185.6 km
Length 115.3 mi
Average interstation 2,184 m
Journeys made 140,000,000 (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
RER C train at St-Michel station.
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RER C train at St-Michel station.
Viaduct of the RER C in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
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Viaduct of the RER C in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
Geographically accurate path of the RER C. Note that since August 27, 2006 the branch from Ermont-Eaubonne to Argenteuil is not longer part of the RER C. It is now part of the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail network.
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Geographically accurate path of the RER C. Note that since August 27, 2006 the branch from Ermont-Eaubonne to Argenteuil is not longer part of the RER C. It is now part of the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail network.

The RER C is one of the five lines in the RER subway system serving the Île-de-France région of France.

The line runs from Pontoise (C1), Versailles – Rive Gauche (C5) and Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (C7) to Massy-Palaiseau (C2), Dourdan-la-Forêt (C4), Saint-Martin d'Étampes (C6) and Versailles – Chantiers (C8)

  • First inauguration : 1979
  • Length : 185.6 km (115.3 miles)
  • Number of stops : 84

Line C was created in 1979 by connecting the Gare d'Orsay railway terminus (now Musée d'Orsay) with the Invalides terminus of the Rive Gauche line to Versailles, along the banks of the Seine. In 1988 the Argenteuil branch opened, using most of the infrastructure of the old SNCF Auteuil line and connecting to the line's main trunk at Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel via a curved bridge (the only one in Paris) over the Seine river.

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[edit] Chronology

  • September 26th, 1979 : Inauguration of RER C, Versailles-Rive Gauche – Invalides – Quai-d'Orsay, branching to Massy – Palaiseau, and Juvisy - Dourdan / St-Martin d'Étampes, after the construction of a new 1-km tunnel connecting the Gare d'Orsay to the Gare des Invalides.
  • May 1980 : Service extended St-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Versailles – Chantiers - Gare des Invalides.
  • September 25th, 1988 : Opening of VMI ("Vallée de Montmorency - Invalides") branch to northwest, to Montigny-Beauchamp and Argenteuil. Connection across Paris uses "ligne d'Auteuil" (incorporated into the "ligne de petite ceinture" from 1867, closed to passengers from 1934 July 22), and new tunnel connection Batignolles - St-Ouen, 3 km.
  • September 29th, 1991 : New station, Porte de Clichy, opened. Located between Pereire-Levallois and St-Ouen.
  • 1992 : The line is extended from Juvisy to Versailles.
  • August 28th, 2000 : The line is extended from Montigny-Beauchamp to Pontoise, 9 km.
  • August 28th, 2000 : New station, Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, opened in order to create a new connexion with Métro Line 14. Located between Paris-Austerlitz and Boulevard Masséna (which was closed and replaced by the new station).
  • March 24th, 2002 : New station, St-Ouen-l'Aumône-Liesse, opened. Located between Pierrelaye and St-Ouen-l'Aumône.
  • August 27th, 2006 : C3 branch (from Ermont-Eaubonne to Argenteuil) transferred to Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail network.

[edit] List of RER C stations

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