Would anybody happen to have a genuinely reliable figure for the route length, preferably in kilometers, of the direct Paris-to-Marseille TGV trains--i.e., the ones that bypass downtown Lyon? I've been doing enough searching to see that there are a lot of inaccurate figures floating around, so I need something that's from a clearly reliable source.
Also, if anyone has a route length figure for the direct Paris to Aix-en-Provence service on the same line, that'd be helpful as well.
I'm trying to get these numbers to back up my points in an ongoing discussion with some Boston Globe reporters and editors, and some NARP people, on the subject of high-speed rail.
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
I can't help you with exact figures but I might be able to explain differing lengths. The LGV Sud-East runs from outside Paris Gare de Lyon to Lyon, while the LGV Rhone-Alpes comes off the LGV Sud-East north of Lyon, bypasses Lyon, and turns into the LGV Mediterranee at Valence. A huge triangular junction near Avignon and the westwards line towards Montpellier is part of the LGV Mediterranee. So what with the distance from Gare de Lyon to the start of the LGV, the subtraction of the segment north of Lyon, more than one method of working out the distance at Avignon, and counting (or not) the Montpellier section may be why the numbers differ.
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :