LGV Bordeaux – Toulouse

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LGV Bordeaux – Toulouse
Route length: 222 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Top speed: 320 km / h

The LGV Bordeaux – Toulouse is a planned 220 km long high-speed line in France . It is intended for TGV trains and fulfills two functions: On the one hand, as an extension of the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique, it will connect the regional capital Toulouse to Paris via continuous high-speed traffic . On the other hand, it represents the first section of a cross connection between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Intermediate stops are planned in Agen and Montauban . The LGV Bordeaux – Toulouse should be passable at up to 320 km / h. The travel time for the entire route between Paris and Toulouse will be shortened by just under two hours to three hours and seven minutes.

Together with the LGV Bordeaux-Espagne , which is to be built in parallel , the new line forms the Grands Projets ferroviaires du Sud-Ouest . After 57 kilometers of shared route, the two routes separate near the town of Bernos-Beaulac in the south of the Gironde department .

costs

The construction costs are currently estimated at four billion euros. The alternative project to modernize the existing route would have cost only 780 million euros, but was rejected by the French network company Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) due to the slight reduction in travel time of just ten minutes .

history

Preparations

From 2002 to 2004 the high-speed line was the subject of official studies. These came to the following results:

Public hearings on the project were held in the second half of 2005. The basis was a ten-kilometer-wide corridor within which the route would lie.

Based on the results, the board of the RFF decided on April 13, 2006 to specify the project. Montauban is to be served via a new train station to be built; two variants have been examined for Agen. The route south of the Garonne, which includes a tunnel, is preferred.

On May 21, 2007, the local authorities of the Midi-Pyrénées region agreed on the distribution of their contribution to the costs. On January 11, 2010, the RFF published the route, which had been specified to one kilometer. The resistance that has been rising among the affected residents since then has little chance of success. The regional politicians of the French Greens grudgingly agree to the project, as it is seen as the lesser evil compared to expanding the congested Toulouse-Blagnac airport . On January 9, 2012, the steering committee, made up of the representatives of the Midi-Pyrénées and Aquitaine regions , the national ministers concerned and the President of the RFF, approved the final route.

The public hearing phase began on October 14, 2014. The declaration that the project is in the public interest was made on June 2, 2016. However, this was revoked on June 29, 2017 by the Bordeaux Administrative Court. Since then there has not been a reliable schedule for implementation. In January 2020, the start of construction was announced for 2022, the duration of the subsequent work was given as seven years.

Planned continuation

In April 2010, RFF commissioned preliminary studies for a high-speed line between Toulouse and Narbonne. Together with the planned LGV Languedoc-Roussillon , this would create a link between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Frédéric Potet: Le TGV, il ne passera pas par chez moi. In: Le Monde Magazine No. 36 of May 22, 2010, p. 31ff.
  2. ↑ a b GPSO Newsletter No. 13, January 2012 (French) (PDF; 2.2 MiB)
  3. ↑ Official website of the project (French)
  4. ↑ LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse: début des travaux en 2022 message on France bleu of January 21, 2020
  5. ^ Announcement by the Dépêche du Midi of April 8, 2010