TGV trains Great VitesseLe TGV-East European

TGV trains Great VitesseLe TGV-East European

The draft TGV-East European, which is among the 14 priority projects identified by the European Union in the field of transport is to carry out a new line of 406 km between the Ile-de-France and the East France.


It is broken into two phases.

The 1st phase of TGV

The first section of new lines over 300 km between Vaires (Seine et Marne) and Baudrecourt (Moselle), has been operational since June 10, 2007. It is now 2:20 Strasbourg to Paris (against about 4 hours), Colmar and Mulhouse at 2:50 to 3:10 (4:20 against).

The TGV-East Europe is the first high-speed line to be co-financed by local territories it traverses.

Its total cost is estimated at about 4.2 milliars € currents which 3.9 billion € updated under the financing agreement of 20 November 2000, including nearly 350 million € at the expense of Alsace. The participation of the Alsace region in the 1st phase amounts to approximately 175 million €.

The TGV service provides for a gradual climb in charge between June 2007 and December 2008, which consists of:

-- 15 round trips per day between Paris and Strasbourg-East, of which 6 are extended in Mulhouse and Colmar 3 stop. The station deSaverne benefits, has 2 round trips per day,

-- 4 trips per day between Paris-Strasbourg-Stuttgart, of which 1 will be extended to Munich;

-- 4 trips per day between Paris-Strasbourg-Basel, which will be extended by 3 Zürich,

-- 9 additional round trips to Strasbourg link to other poles at high speeds, including Roissy, and regional cities (Lille, Nantes, Rennes, Bordeaux).

Meanwhile, the Region has actively prepared the advent of high-speed Alsace:

-- Accompanying processing stations concerned Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse,

-- Promoting good relationship between the major networks, serving finer territory and cross-border links.

Thus, the Alsace region has adapted and strengthened the entire offer TER Alsace to accompany the arrival of TGV East, which has led to an increase in supply by 17%, la mise en ligne of 80 additional trains. Thus the entire territory of Alsace which is now irrigated by the TGV East and enjoys a significant improvement in its accessibility.


The 2nd phase of TGV

It includes the realization of the high-speed line between Baudrecourt and Vendenheim of 106 km.

This new phase, whose cost is estimated at 1,700 M € (value 2005), is of paramount importance to Strasbourg and the Alsace:

-- By the additional gain of about 30 minutes and the consequent strengthening the attractiveness of relations between Paris, major cities in Germany and beyond, in the continuity of Magistrale for Europe, which will help sit quite as European capital of Strasbourg,

-- A solution that provides the capacity problems of the section Baudrecourt-Strasbourg, insufficient in the current state to support the development of traffic in the medium term, including regional and interregional.

This project will confirm further up the Alsace region crossroads "within Europe.

On 18 December 2003, the Interministerial Committee of Planning has established the goal of launching the work by 2010, with entry into service in 2015.

On 24 January 2007, a milestone was reached through the signing of a financing plan, amounting to 94.16 million €, to start the necessary procedures and studies to the commitment as soon as possible civil engineering works. The participation of the Alsace region this funding is to 6.71 M €.

The challenge ahead now is to bring together the funding of all the work necessary for the commissioning of this line.

Meanwhile, the realization of doubling the railway bridge on the Rhine between Strasbourg and Kehl and interconnection with the ICE (Kehl-Appenweier) by 2010, according to the Franco-German Agreement of 14 March 2006, will become indispensable at maturity completion of the second phase.