Line 2 of the Paris tram
The T2 line of tram Ile-de-France runs southwest of Paris beyond the city limits mostly on the left bank of the Seine and connects on a length of 17.9 kilometers, the city of Colombes with the business district of La Defense and the Metro station Porte de Versailles in southern from Paris. For the most part, it runs on a former railway line, the last SNCF track operated by conductor rails in the Paris area.
After a fundamental renovation, the route was opened on July 2, 1997 for World Youth Day . It is operated by the Paris public transport company RATP .
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The route between La Défense and Issy - Val de Seine was opened as a tram on July 2, 1997. A part of the route, that between Puteaux and Issy -Val de Seine, emerged largely from the "Ligne de Moulineaux" railway line from Issy-Plaine (since 1997: Issy-Val de Seine) to Puteaux, which opened in 1889 May 1993 the SNCF carried out an electric full-line operation (with side busbar ). Freight traffic on the route had been suspended since 1992, the last operation served was the Renault plant on the Île Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt . After the conversion to a tramway, the SNCF handed over management to the RATP, although the infrastructure remained their property. With the rail reform, the infrastructure was transferred to the newly created RFF , which is still the owner of the line today.
The first extension of the route was opened on November 21, 2009. Line T2 was extended from its terminus at Issy - Val de Seine to the east by 2.3 km with four new stops to the southern city limits, the Porte de Versailles, creating a connection to T3 and Métrolinie 12 . In contrast to the rest of the route, the tram runs here on the street, albeit on its own track structure separated from the rest of the traffic.
The second extension of the route was opened in 2012. Line T2 has been extended from its former terminus La Défense north by 4.2 km with seven new stops, including a transfer option to the train in the urban area of Colombes. After crossing the Seine, the line ends in Pont de Bezons.
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Vehicle fleet
With the commissioning of the line, articulated multiple units of the type TFS from the manufacturer Alstom were initially used. However, it soon became apparent that their capacity was insufficient. They were therefore handed over to tram line 1 and replaced by Citadis 302 sets from the same manufacturer. These vehicles are 32.2 m long, 2.4 m wide and carry 213 people.
Due to the high number of passengers, these have been running as double trains since 2005 , which has doubled the capacity. For this purpose, additional vehicles were ordered in which the Scharfenberg coupling is clad on the front and therefore a slight change in the front design was necessary. As a result, the older cars were gradually adapted to look like the new ones.
In 2013, the T2 line again reached the limits of its capacity: the line was used by up to 130,000 people every day. The purchase of six additional sets by the RATP has already been approved by the STIF. However, the passengers had to wait until the end of 2015 for delivery and deployment.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tram Val-de-Seine in: Stadtverkehr 10/1992, p. 7.
- ↑ Métropole - Tram ligne T2: historique. Archived from the original on June 17, 2014 ; accessed on May 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Interview of the newspaper Le Parisien of January 21, 2013 with the Vice-President of the Ile-de-France region and at the same time Commissioner for Transport (French), accessed on March 13, 2014
Web links
- Extension to the north under construction (French). Archived from the original on June 17, 2014 ; accessed on May 9, 2017 .
- Extension to the Porte de Versailles (French). Archived from the original on June 16, 2014 ; accessed on May 9, 2017 .
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