Toulouse metro

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Toulouse metro
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Basic data
Country France
city Toulouse
Transport network Tisséo-Réseau urbain
opening 1993
Lines 2
Route length 28.2 km
Stations 37
use
Shortest cycle 2 min
Passengers 102147780 / year
vehicles 29 VAL 206
14 VAL 208
56 VAL 208 NS
18 VAL 208 NS 21
Gauge 1435
Power system 750 V

The Toulouse Metro , 1993 opened is, as in Lille and Rennes an automatic metro , based on the VAL system.

history

Logo of the Métro Toulouse
At the Jolimont station, a type VAL 206 train leaves the tunnel on the former sweeping system
Val 208 train on line A near Argoulets station

Toulouse's first metro line (Line A) opened on June 26, 1993 between Basso-Cambo and Jolimont , after construction began in 1989. This section runs almost entirely underground, apart from the Basso-Cambo station and the crossing of the motorway. To the northeast of the Jolimont station , a sweeping system was built on a viaduct, to which the extension of the line by 2.3 km or 3 stations to Balma Gramont was connected in 2003 .

On June 30, 2007, a second route, Line B, was opened to traffic. Used rubber-tired , driverless two-car with a slim profile of Matra developed system VAL.

During the construction of both routes there were numerous finds from the two thousand year history of Toulouse. The Roman Forum mentioned in historical sources could be located near the Place Esquirol .

Line A

The first metro line is 12.3 km long and has 18 stations. It crosses Toulouse from southwest to northeast, from Basso Cambo to Balma Gramont . The line opened in 1993 was built by Matra , and in 2003 it was extended by Siemens. In 2001 it had a daily passenger volume of 140,000 passengers. Jean Jaurès is a transfer station to Métrolinie B, Arènes to suburban line C and the tram lines T1 and T2. The Marengo-SNCF station has direct access to the Toulouse-Matabiau long-distance train station . Since not all stations are sufficiently long, only two-car trains have run on Line A so far.

Stations

Basso-Cambo - Bellefontaine - Reynerie - Mirail-Université - Bagatelle - Mermoz - Fontaine-Lestang - Arènes - Patte-d'Oie - St-Cyprien / République - Esquirol - Capitole - Jean-Jaurès - Marengo-SNCF - Jolimont - Roseraie - Argoulets - Balma Gramont

vehicles

At the time the line opened, 29 VAL 206 units were available. In the course of the extension beyond the temporary terminus of Jolimont , 14 trains of the type VAL 208 were procured; some of the 18 trains of the series VAL 208 NG2 acquired in 2011 are now also running there to cope with the increased number of passengers.

Line B

Palais de Justice station on line B

The second metro line is 15.1 km long, has 20 stations and runs in a north-south direction from Borderouge to Ramonville . It was inaugurated on June 30, 2007 and also built by Matra. Originally 35 vehicles of the type VAL 208 were planned for this line. The order value was 232 million euros. Jean Jaurès is a transfer station to Métrolinie A, Palais de Justice to the tram lines T1 and T2. During the traffic peaks, the frequency of the fully automatic trains running in double traction (four cars) is 80 seconds.

Stations

Borderouge - Trois Cocus - La Vache - Barrière de Paris - Minimes Claude Nougaro - Canal du Midi - Compans Caffarelli - Jeanne d'Arc - Jean Jaurès - François Verdier - Carmes - Palais de Justice - Saint-Michel Marcel Langer - Empalot - Saint- Agne SNCF - Saouzelong - Rangueil - Faculté de Pharmacie - Université Paul Sabatier - Ramonville

vehicles

Only wagons of the types VAL 208 NG (56 units) and VAL 208 NG2 run on Line B.

Line C

Arènes station on line C with Coradia A TER railcars

A line C from the Arènes underground station west to the Colomiers SNCF station is shown on the Métro network maps. This is an S-Bahn- like suburban connection with five stations, which uses a non-electrified section of the Toulouse-Auch railway line and is operated by the state railway SNCF . The Alstom Coradia A TER type diesel railcars run every half hour and are included in the transport association's tariff system.

Expansion and planning of the metro

Expansion plan for the Métro / S-Bahn - line E was implemented as a tram from 2010 and extended from Arènes to Palais de Justice in 2013

It is planned to extend line B as an open-air route in the south by 5.2 km and five stations (Parc technologique de Ramonville - Center Commercial de Labège - Innopole - Diagora - Labège-La Cadène) to Labège-Innopole and in the north to L'Union to extend. The extension to the south should be opened in early 2019 (as of September 2013). At the time, there was no schedule for the northern connection due to limited funds, as the expansion of the tram in the form of line G had priority until the 2014 municipal elections (see below). The new mayor elected in 2014, however, favors the metro again, and a third line is even to be built between the two aerospace centers in the southeast and northwest, bypassing the city center to the east.

Larger capacity for Line A from 2019

The capacity of Line A is to be doubled by the end of 2019. The line is to be rebuilt so that 52 m long trains can be used after the work is completed. At the moment the trains are only 26 meters long. Extensive work is necessary: ​​lengthening the platforms and the partition walls between the platforms and the tracks, adapting the energy supply and the line control center, enlarging the vehicle fleet and the depot.

The work should mainly be carried out at night while the vehicle is idle. In addition, the line is to be completely shut down for several weeks during the main vacation time and vacation time in 2016, 2017 and 2019.

The total costs for the expansion are estimated at 180 million euros. A contract signed with Siemens in January 2016 relates to electrical and electronic equipment and amounts to 66 million euros.

The extension has now been completed.

TAE - A new metro line from around 2024

Orange dashed or dotted: possible variants of the Toulouse Aerospace Express

By 2024, Toulouse is to have another metro line, which will be called TAE (= Toulouse Aerospace Express). It will be around 20 to 25 km long and will connect the second largest city in the department, Colomiers, which is west of Toulouse, with the Airbus site east of Toulouse. Important stops will be Toulouse-Blagnac Airport and Toulouse-Matabiau train station with a TGV connection. Not all of the route will be underground.

The costs are estimated at 1.5 to 1.7 billion euros.

Other local transport trains in the city area

  • Line D: suburban traffic from Muret SNCF train station in the south of the city to Toulouse-Matabiau train station ( Marengo SNCF subway station ), not included in the public transport network's tariff system
  • Line F (planned): S-Bahn from Escalquens station in the southeast to Toulouse-Matabiau station

Web links

Commons : Métro Toulouse  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Toulouse Métropole en chiffres, 2012
  2. ^ Christoph Groneck: Metros in France . 1st edition. Robert Schwandl, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-936573-13-1 , p. 126 .
  3. ↑ a b MTI delivers second fully automatic metro line for Toulouse . Short message. In: signal + wire . tape 93 , no. 7-8 . Tetzlaff Verlag GmbH, 2001, ISSN  0037-4997 , p. 48 .
  4. ^ Christoph Groneck: Metros in France , p. 123.
  5. ↑ a b c VAL 208 at midimobilites.fr, accessed on October 8, 2017
  6. ^ Christoph Groneck: Metros in Frankreich , p. 129.
  7. ^ Accord sur le financement du métro à Labège , La Dépêche du Midi, September 14, 2013
  8. ↑ Mobiliciés of January 18, 2016: Toulouse: Tisséo confie à Siemens le doublement de la ligne A du Val (French) accessed on January 19, 2016
  9. ^ Capacity on Toulouse metro Line A expanded. In: International Railway Journal. January 22, 2020, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ LADEPECHE.fr of July 8, 2015 Métro: la 3e ligne a déjà un nom (French) accessed on January 19, 2016