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Traffic is concentrated on the main lines: 78% of activity is done on 30% of the network (8,900 km), and the 46% of smaller lines (13,600 km) only drive 6% of the traffic. The 366 largest stations (12%) account for 85% of passenger activity, and the smallest 56% of stations take only 1.7%
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The success of the TGV is undeniable (Crozet 2013). Work started in
September 1975 on the first high-speed rail (HSR) line, between Paris and Lyon, and it was inaugurated in September 1981. New high-speed lines were opened in 1989 (towards the south-west), in 1993 (towards the north), etc. The
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Rail freight has been far less successful. The French network carried 55 billion tonne-km in 2001, but this figure scarcely reached 32 billion tonne-km in 2013. This weak performance contrasts sharply with the ambitious public policy of the last fifteen years. The
Grenelle Environment Forum
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The regionalisation of intercity and local services was tested in 1997 and fully deployed in the early 2000s. Since then, TERs (regional express trains) have seen traffic rise steeply (50% between 2000 and 2013) as, to a lesser extent, have services in the Ile de France region
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Freight transport has declined since the early 1980s. Today the network is predominantly passenger-centric; railways transport only 9% of French cargo, or about 1/2 of the
European average, and less than a fourth of the US railways' share of US cargo.
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C'est, d'ailleurs, partant du constat que la part de marché du fret ferroviaire en France n'a cessé de s'éroder au profit du transport routier de marchandises, pour tomber à 9 %, soit cinq fois moins qu'en 1974 et environ la moitié de la moyenne
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The French non-TGV intercity service (TET) is in decline, with old infrastructure and trains. The French government is planning to remove the monopoly that rail currently has on long-distance journeys by letting coach operators compete.
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France was ranked 7th among national
European rail systems in the 2017 European Railway Performance Index for intensity of use, quality of service and safety performance, a decrease from previous years.
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The French railway network, as administered by SNCF RĂ©seau, as of June 2007, is a network of commercially usable lines of 29,213 kilometres (18,152 mi), of which 15,141 km (9,408 mi) is
637:. 1,876 km (1,166 mi) of those are high speed lines (LGV), 16,445 km (10,218 mi) dispose of two or more tracks. 5,905 km (3,669 mi) are supplied with 1,500
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Travel to the UK through the
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With a total of 100.2 billion passenger-kilometres, France has the fifth-most used passenger network worldwide, and second-most used in Europe after that of
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The
International Transport Forum described the current status of the French railways in their paper "Efficiency indicators of Railways in France":
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In 2017, there were 1.762 billion journeys on the French national rail network, among which 1.270 billion on SNCF services and 493 million on
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429:. France currently operates the second-largest European railway network, with a total of 29,901 kilometres of railway.
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Pourquoi le fret ferroviaire va-t-il si mal en France? Autour du plan VĂ©ron (Fret 2006)
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our freight rail is the envy of the world, carrying over 40% of our intercity cargo
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1081:. Paris, France: Observatoire de la mobilité en Île-de-France (Omnil). 2017
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1101:"Memento statistiques SNCF Mobilités 2017"
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543:Saint-Etienne to Andrezieux Railway
526:History of rail transport in France
166:29,901 kilometres (18,580 mi)
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285:9,113 km (5,663 mi)
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1004:Rail transport in Europe
411:Rail transport in France
303:122 km (76 mi)
32:Rail transport in France
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2724:Bosnia and Herzegovina
1946:LGV Interconnexion Est
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1810:Bourg-Saint-Maurice
1460:Folkestone Terminal
1393:13 May 2020 at the
994:Transport in France
832:No rail links from
596:Passenger transport
590:EU Directive 91/440
2515:Paris (Belleville)
2484:Paris (Montmartre)
1722:DĂĽsseldorf Airport
1559:Eurotunnel Class 9
1505:Passenger services
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1259:Pierre Zembri 2004
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2936:Vatican City
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2398:Guided buses
2379:Valenciennes
2288:Valenciennes
2208:Le Mans
2017:
1967:LGV Picardie
1965:
1916:High Speed 1
1743:Lille-Europe
1589:
1455:High Speed 1
1438:Construction
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380:Yellow Train
362:No. stations
172:Double track
135:Passenger km
26:
3012:Isle of Man
2947:recognition
2916:Switzerland
2851:Netherlands
2555:Saint-Denis
2228:Montpellier
1951:LGV Sud-Est
1800:Albertville
1279:(in French)
754:Switzerland
706:Same gauge
648:at 50
635:electrified
562: [
470:(UIC). The
427:SNCF RĂ©seau
423:state-owned
314:No. tunnels
204:Track gauge
182:Electrified
76:SNCF RĂ©seau
2886:San Marino
2846:Montenegro
2826:Luxembourg
2806:Kazakhstan
2709:Azerbaijan
2620:See also:
2530:cable cars
2474:Le Tréport
2449:funiculars
2384:Versailles
2374:Strasbourg
2273:Strasbourg
1758:Paris Nord
1717:DĂĽsseldorf
1290:européenne
1020:References
881:Strasbourg
732:Luxembourg
678:in Paris.
654:third rail
623:Intercités
442:Andrézieux
244:High-speed
192:High-speed
112:Statistics
3002:Gibraltar
2821:Lithuania
2329:Deauville
2304:Avranches
2223:Marseille
2108:Marseille
1861:Ebbsfleet
1825:Marseille
1763:Rotterdam
1676:Amsterdam
1533:LeShuttle
1496:NMBS/SNCB
1474:Corporate
667:in Paris.
553:Operation
549:in 1823.
494:Marseille
291:1.5 kV DC
118:Ridership
90:TGV Lyria
57:Operation
3053:Category
3022:Svalbard
3007:Guernsey
2954:Abkhazia
2901:Slovenia
2896:Slovakia
2871:Portugal
2729:Bulgaria
2550:Grenoble
2510:Besançon
2469:Le Havre
2339:Le Havre
2324:Grenoble
2309:Bordeaux
2278:Toulouse
2233:Mulhouse
2203:Le Havre
2198:Grenoble
2178:Bordeaux
2173:Besançon
2143:Tramways
2129:Toulouse
1941:HSL-Zuid
1911:LGV Nord
1830:Moûtiers
1815:Chambéry
1783:Seasonal
1712:Duisburg
1707:Dortmund
1697:Brussels
1664:Stations
1657:Eurostar
1512:Eurostar
1450:LGV Nord
1391:Archived
1315:13 April
1283:13 April
1225:Archived
1171:Archived
1133:Archived
988:See also
978:RĂ©giolis
959:Material
893:Eurostar
864:Normandy
846:Suriname
840:or from
816: in
794: in
762:via the
746:via the
714:Brussels
532:Napoleon
506:Toulouse
378:1,593m (
308:Features
281:25 kV AC
266: in
232: in
94:Eurostar
2926:Ukraine
2876:Romania
2836:Moldova
2794:Ireland
2789:Iceland
2784:Hungary
2774:Germany
2769:Georgia
2759:Finland
2754:Estonia
2749:Denmark
2734:Croatia
2719:Belgium
2714:Belarus
2704:Austria
2699:Armenia
2694:Andorra
2689:Albania
2589:Orlyval
2577:Present
2538:Present
2457:Present
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