HIGH-SPEED RAIL. THE FRENCH APPROACH -- RESULTS AND OUTLOOK

In January 1989, the Council of Ministers asked SNCF to prepare a nationwide master plan of railroad links and recommend extensions that could reasonably be envisaged to be implemented 10 and 20 years hence. On May 14, 1991, after discussion with the French regions, the master plan was adopted. It called for a total of 4,700 kilometers of new high-speed lines and having 11,000 km of network fed by high-speed trains running on conventional lines and it presented 16 projects for developing the French network, five of which represented "key links" of the European high-speed rail master plan approved by the EC in 1990.

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  • English

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  • Features: Figures;
  • Pagination: p. 333-337

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  • Accession Number: 00716677
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Feb 26 1996 12:00AM