France - Older General Information

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Introduction

This document acts as an archive for Recent and Future Changes prior to 2012.

Line closures

Services which have been withdrawn permanently

  • Sarreguemines - Bitche (December 2011: "suspended" but finance for remedial engineering work was later refused by the government so passenger service is effectively definitively withdrawn)
  • Avallon - Autun (December 2011)
  • the north-western arc of the Paris Grande Ceinture used by short-lived through TGV services between Normandy and eastern France (December 2010, although part will be followed - on dedicated trackbed - by Tram 11 Express tram-train from 2017)
  • Saincaize west curve (Raccordement de Saincaize)(December 2009)
  • Valençay - Luçay-le-Mâle (October 2009)
  • the northern section of the Paris Grande Ceinture used as a through link by 'classic' (Flandres-Riviera) trains between the Nord and PLM main lines (June 2009)
  • Montluçon - Eygurande-Merlines (March 2008)
  • Volvic - Lapeyrouse (December 2007)

In the "tourist/heritage" sector:

  • Train Touristique d'Ardèche Méridionale (Saint-Jean-le-Centenier - Voguë; 14 km) closed after the 2011 season, because of track renewal costs (part has since become a vélo-rail route)
  • Train Touristique de la Mine (Petite-Rosselle - Freyming-Merlebach) seems to have closed after the 2010 season