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I haven't found a direct path data, so had to look through the timeplans.  

The busiest section is Moisenay junction to Pasilly junction (e.g. the end of the Interconnexion to the branch-off towards Dijon). I looked up Monday and direction away from Paris (Gare de Lyon/Massy/CDG). Between 15:50 and 20:00, I counted 46 trains (may have missed some).

Minimum headway was 5 minutes on the old units with old signalling, it's now 3 minutes with the TVM 430. But scheduled times usually alternate between 4 and 6 min, only sometimes down to the 3 min minimum. Yet this is not being generous with time: you need some buffer for lateness, and if the previous train has one more stop, then the next non-stop train must leave a longer buffer for the first train to accelerate back.

So with view to this, between these 46 trains from 15:50 and 20:00, I found just six empty slots (had they been used by trains from Gare de Lyon: 16:14, 16:34, 16:40, 19:34, 19:50, 19:54). And those slots will certainly be filled up once the TGV Rhin-Rhône and the line to Turin are built. Pretty close to saturation.

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by DoDo on Thu Apr 5th, 2007 at 07:01:43 PM EST
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Thanks a lot. That's certainly close to saturation...

However, how is TGV Rhin-Rhône supposed to feed that branch?

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 04:43:08 AM EST
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Despite the name, LGV Rhin-Rhône is an Y concept, with the three branches pointing to Mulhouse, Lyon -- and Paris, across Dijon.

Though, it is just the Ouest branch that'll be built last, and until then, Mulhouse will also get access from Paris via Strasbourg, so maybe there won't be much of a frequency increase via Dijon when the first leg opens (2011?).

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by DoDo on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 05:24:08 AM EST
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The first leg being the Est one, sorry. (For that one, construction already began.) Also, I see the LGV Rhin-Rhône now also has its own homepage.



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by DoDo on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 05:33:46 AM EST
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