High Speed line Strasbourg-Paris - route details

[jonhall]

I've going to be travelling from Strasbourg to Paris in a few weeks time, I believe this will be on the new high speed line, but as it dosn't appear on my M G Ball atlas (of 20 years ago) I was wondering can anyone point me in the direction of a map that shows the new route (or tell me where it joins the old route at either end) ?

 

Thanks,

 

Jon

[Fat Controller]

I've going to be travelling from Strasbourg to Paris in a few weeks time, I believe this will be on the new high speed line, but as it dosn't appear on my M G Ball atlas (of 20 years ago) I was wondering can anyone point me in the direction of a map that shows the new route (or tell me where it joins the old route at either end) ?

 

Thanks,

 

Jon

Jon,

If you're travelling by LGV-Est, then this is the route:-

http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/lvg_est/lvg_est1.html

The route is quite a bit north of the 'classic' route, running through Champagne.

[eastwestdivide]

... running through Champagne.

wouldn't the train wash work better with fairy liquid?

[jonhall]

Jon,

If you're travelling by LGV-Est, then this is the route:-

http://www.railway-t...t/lvg_est1.html

The route is quite a bit north of the 'classic' route, running through Champagne.

 

Thanks - I've managed to trace it on Google maps, so I've drawn it in - classis French high speed - a very straight line through the moddle of nowhere..

 

Is the second stage actually being built?

Jon

[Fat Controller]

Thanks - I've managed to trace it on Google maps, so I've drawn it in - classis French high speed - a very straight line through the moddle of nowhere..

 

Is the second stage actually being built?

Jon

As far as I'm aware, yes; there is a second route to Alsace under construction as well. This is the LGV Rhin- Rhone from Mulhouse, via Belfort, thence either via Dijon (for Paris) or Bourg-en-Bresse (for Lyon and the south). The eastern end is already complete, I believe.

[chrisf]

I think Jon meant the section from Strasbourg to Baudrecourt, which AFAIK is under construction. The Rhin-Rhone route is separate and opened from near Belfort to near Dijon in December. The stagger via Dijon to join the LGV Sud and get a move on towards Paris is so frustrating!

 

Chris

[Gordonwis]

If I may say so the Railway Technology map link gioven was a very poor map. Much better is the map from the official LGV Est web site:

http://www.lgv-est.com/medias/pdf/medias1335.pdf

 

home page: http://www.lgv-est.com/index.php

 

If you are travelling on a Strasbourg - Paris TGV it will take the current TGV route for such trains which is the old line through the Vosges via Saverne and Sarrebourg (where it diverges from the old Strasbourg - Paris line on to the Metz line to reach Baudrecourt, where you will join high speed trackage on phase I of LGV Est (which incidentally is not 'new' as it opened in 2007).

 

If you sit on the left hand side of the train you will see construction of Phase 2 under way at the East end,just north of Vendenheim (not far out of Strasbourg) and where it crosses the old line (twice) that you will be travelling on.

 

See my pictures from June 2012:

http://gwizz.zenfolio.com/alsacejune2012

 

The last four pictures in the above album show the Phase II work

 

To confirm, the reference to the LGV Rhin Rhone (Phase I near Dijon to just east of Belfort opened December 2011) is irrelevant

[jonhall]

If you sit on the left hand side of the train you will see construction of Phase 2 under way at the East end,just north of Vendenheim (not far out of Strasbourg) and where it crosses the old line (twice) that you will be travelling on.

 

I fear I was either looking out of the wrong side, or perhaps starting to doze off at that point, so didn't notice any works this morning..

 

Thanks,

 

Jon