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

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.

Viaduct of the RER C in Issy-les-Moulineaux.

Geographically accurate path of the RER C.

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.

1 Chronology
2 List of RER C stations
3 See also
4 External links

[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.
December 16th, 2006 : Boulevard Victor is renamed Boulevard Victor - Pont du Garigliano for the arrival of the tramway line T3.

[edit] List of RER C stations

C1
- Pontoise
- Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône
- Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône – Liesse
- Pierrelaye
- Montigny – Beauchamp
- Franconville – Le Plessis-Bouchard
- Cernay
- Ermont – Eaubonne
- Saint-Gratien
- Épinay-sur-Seine
- Gennevilliers
- Les Grésillons
- Saint-Ouen
- Porte de Clichy
- Pereire - Levallois
- Neuilly - Porte Maillot
- Avenue Foch
- Avenue Henri Martin
- Boulainvilliers
- Avenue du Pdt Kennedy
C5, C7
- C5
  - Versailles – Rive Gauche
  - Porchefontaine
- C7
  - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
  - Saint-Cyr
  - Versailles – Chantiers
- Viroflay – Rive Gauche
- Chaville – Vélizy
- Meudon – Val Fleury
- Issy
- Issy – Val de Seine
- Boulevard Victor - Pont du Garigliano
- Javel
|Champ de Mars - Tour Eiffel
Pont de l'Alma
Invalides
Musée d'Orsay
St-Michel - Notre-Dame
Gare d'Austerlitz
Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Ivry-sur-Seine
Vitry-sur-Seine
Les Ardoines
Choisy-le-Roi
C2
- Les Saules
- Orly – Ville
- Pont de Rungis – Aéroport d'Orly
- Rungis – La Fraternelle
- Chemin d'Antony
- Massy – Verrières
- Massy – Palaiseau
C4, C6, C8
- Villeneuve-le-Roi
- Ablon
- Athis-Mons
- Juvisy
- Savigny-sur-Orge
- C4, C6
  - Épinay-sur-Orge
  - Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois
  - Saint-Michel-sur-Orge
  - Brétigny-sur-Orge
  - C4
    - La Norville - Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon
    - Arpajon
    - Égly
    - Breuillet - Bruyères-le-Châtel
    - Breuillet - Village
    - Saint-Chéron
    - Sermaise
    - Dourdan
    - Dourdan-la-Forêt
  - C6
    - Marolles-en-Hurepoix
    - Bouray
    - Lardy
    - Chamarande
    - Étréchy
    - Étampes
    - Saint-Martin d'Étampes
- C8
  - Petit Vaux
  - Gravigny – Balizy
  - Chilly-Mazarin
  - Longjumeau
  - Massy – Palaiseau
  - Igny
  - Bièvres
  - Vauboyen
  - Jouy-en-Josas
  - Petit Jouy - Les Loges
  - Versailles – Chantiers