TER Franche-Comté

TER Franche-Comté is the regional rail network serving the Franche-Comté région, France.

Since the convention signed in 2002 for a duration of 5 years, between Jean-François Humbert, then president of the Regional council of Franche-Comté and Noël Belin, then regional director of the SNCF, the regional council of Franche-Comté is the organising authority of regional transports. A new agreement, signed on the 21^st December 2006, by Raymond Forni, president of the Conseil Régional de Franche-Comté and Josiane Beaud, regional directeur of the SNCF, en présence d'Anne-Marie Idrac, présidente of the SNCF, from 2007–2012.

TER railway connections

• The axes Dijon-Dole-Besançon and Besançon-Montbéliard-Belfort: these to axes form in reality only one, called the axe Saône-Doubs. It constitutes the backbone of trips in Franche-Comté with 60% of the passengers and 60% of the Gross profit. It's along this axe that pass highwayss, canals and railways.
• Axe of the Revermont : Besançon-Lons-le-Saunier-Bourg-en-Bresse. Second axe by its importance, it is for a large part a single track (between Saint-Amour and Mouchard).
• Besançon-Morteau-La Chaux-de-Fonds : this line has been certified by french normes in 2005. The exploitation of this line is done with SNCF Class X 73500 and SNCF Class X 2800, though occasionally harnessed to SNCF Class XR 6200.
• Belfort-Épinal
• Dijon-Pontarlier
• Dole-Saint-Claude: this line is called the ligne des hirondelles (line of swallows)
• Montbéliard-Belfort-Vesoul
• Morez-Bourg-en-Bresse-Lyon

Rolling stock

Multiple units

• SNCF Class Z 9500
• SNCF Class Z 9600
• SNCF Class X 2800+ trailers SNCF Class XR 6000
• SNCF Class X 4750
• SNCF Class X 73500
• SNCF Class X 76500 (also called: XGC X 76500)
• SNCF Class Z 27500 (also called: ZGC Z 27500)

Locomotives

• SNCF Class BB 22200
• SNCF Class BB 25500

See also

• SNCF
• Transport express régional
• Réseau Ferré de France
• List of SNCF stations
• List of SNCF stations in Franche-Comté
• Franche-Comté

External links

• TER Franche-Comté website
• Map of the Network