TER Franche-Comté

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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.

Relations ferroviaires TER

*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

ee also

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

External links

* [http://www.ter-sncf.com/franche_comte TER Franche-Comté website]
* [http://www.rff.fr/biblio_pdf/np_fc_reseau.pdf Map of the Network]