TER Poitou-Charentes

TER Poitou-Charentes
Train Express Régional SNCF
Overview
Website http://www.sncf.com/en/trains/ter
Technical
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge

TER Poitou-Charentes is the regional rail network serving the Poitou-Charentes région in France.

Network

Rail

Line Route Frequency Notes
Angoulême - Bordeaux Angoulême - Coutras - Libourne - Bordeaux-Saint-Jean (see TER Aquitaine line 16 for details)
Bressuire - Saumur Bressuire - Thouars - Saumur (see TER Pays de la Loire line 14 for details)
Limoges - Angoulême Limoges-Bénédictins - Chabanais - Angoulême (see TER Limousin line 3 for details)
Niort - Royan Niort - Saint-Jean-d'Angély - Saintes - Royan
Poitiers - Angoulême Poitiers - Ruffec - Angoulême
Poitiers - Limoges Poitiers - Montmorillon - Limoges-Bénédictins (see TER Limousin line 2 for details)
La Rochelle - Bordeaux La Rochelle - Rochefort - Saintes - Jonzac - Montendre - Bordeaux
La Rochelle - Poitiers La Rochelle - Surgères ... Niort ... Poitiers
La Rochelle - Rochefort La Rochelle-Porte Dauphine - La Rochelle - Rochefort
Saintes - Angoulême Saintes - Cognac - Jarnac - Angoulême
Tours - Poitiers Tours - Châtellerault - Poitiers (see TER Centre line 30 for details)
† Not all trains call at this station

Road

Rolling Stock

X 73500 du TER Poitou-Charentes
X 73500 et son logo biocarburant

Multiple units

Locomotives

Buses

Future

Niort – Fontenay-le-Comte line

25% of this line, closed to passenger traffic since 1969, is located in Poitou-Charentes, with the remainder located in Pays de la Loire.

The reopening of the line was included in the Contract for Regional and State Projects (Contrat de projets État-région) for 2006-2007 and preliminary studies are completed. Work was scheduled to begin once the interregional budget was in place[1] but as of October 2014, the line has not been reopened and TER's operations between Niort and Fontenay-le-Comte are restricted to bus travel.[2]

Thouars – Parthenay – Niort line

This line has been closed to passenger traffic since 1980 but it is still used to transport empty TER trains every Wednesday. The trains are from the Bressuire – Thouars – Saumur line and they are sent to Saintes for maintenance. These trains are allowed to travel at speeds between 70-80 km/h, although higher speeds would be possible on certain sections of the line.[3]

Expansion of the La Rochelle-Rochefort line

With 11 trains a day added between in 2007 and 2008, the expansion of this line is meant to help curb the growing road traffic between the cities of La Rochelle and Rochefort.[4]

Five additional stops have been opened:

See also

References

  1. ↑ CPER 2007-2013 "Contrat de projets des Pays de la Loire 2007-2013" Check |url= value (help) (PDF). Conseil régional des Pays de la Loire (cached by Wikiwix) (in French). Retrieved 17 March 2007. ; p. 68
  2. ↑ "TER Poitou-Charentes carte du réseau" (PDF). TER (in French). Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  3. ↑ (in French) Association for the development of Thouet-Sèvre Niortaise rail transport
  4. ↑ (in French) Cadencement La Rochelle - Rochefort (Dossier présenté par la région Poitou-Charente)
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