- LGV Normandie
The LGV Normandie is a French
high-speed rail project to linkParis andNormandy .History
The
1991 diagram of the proposedLGV network already included the LGV Normandie. This was to begin in the Parisian suburbs and would split into two branches nearMantes-la-Jolie ; one leading towardsRouen , the other ending nearEvreux . This project was abandoned due to profitability concerns (the cost of replacing the currentCorail s withTGV s would be high, whereas the time gain would be modest). TheBasse-Normandie andHaute-Normandie regions would therefore have to content themselves with a more basic project improving the infrastructure of the "classic" line.Current project
The current LGV Normandie project, which followed several years later, is more ambitious than the foregoing:
*In addition to the Paris-Normandy route, it provides for internal links inside Normandy (TER GV) and intra-provincial connections
*The project connects to the three principal cities of Normandy: Rouen,Caen andLe Havre are linked to Paris entirely by LGVThis "new" version of the LGV Normandie would begin in the Parisian suburb of
Nanterre , on the regular Paris-Poissy line. A connection is foreseen in order to serveLa Défense from Normandy. The line would then follow in large part the A14 and A13 motorways untilOissel , south of Rouen, where two links towards Rouen and perhaps a new station would be constructed. The line would then follow the left bank of the riverSeine until a triangle junction situated east ofHonfleur ; from here a line would cross the Seine between Normandy and Tancarville bridges, ending in a link which would enable service toLe Havre . After Honfleur junction, the LGV would border the sea and a connection would serveDeauville . The LGV would end inCagny , near Caen, enabling TGVs to serve Caen but notCherbourg .The line would therefore permit the linking of Rouen and Paris in 30 minutes, Le Havre and Paris in 50 minutes, and Caen to Paris in less than an hour. Additionally it would enable high-speed connections between Caen-Rouen, Caen-Le Havre and Rouen-Le Havre.
Connected projects
*The
LGV Picardie would link Normandy and the North of France,Brussels ,Picardy and the eastern French region
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