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Originally Posted by Minato ku

Boulainvilliers

Fixed!

BTW, I remember (as if it was yesterday) when this station was 'abandoned' and of course open air/uncovered.

[Bogdy]

and why was abandoned? or it was there from the beginning? Boulainvilliers was opened in 1988, while the line was there from 1900.

[Minato ku]

I do not know why and when the station was closed, I believe it was because of the insufficient traffic.

This station reopened in 1988 as part of the VMI project of the RER C.
(VMI) Vallée de Montmorency - Invalides line.
This line was created by merging and modernizing old lines to link the northwestern suburbs to Central Paris.

Some picture of Boulainvilliers before the reopening
1984

Picture by Smiley.toerist

1986 during the work.

Picture by Smiley.toerist

[Bogdy]

Thank you for sharing this pics. Actually the entire RER section between Boulainvilliers and Pont Cardinet, was built on the former Vallée de Montmorency - Invalides railway. They just covered the trenches, hence the wide streets above RER.
Here is the the path of RER between Boulainvilliers and Pont Cardinet.
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sou...a=1,2,3&num=10

[Minato ku]

The VMI (Vallée de Montmorency - Invalides) did not exist before its opening in 1988. It was planned in the 1970's.
This line is the merging of the several part of old lines.
Most notably
-Auteuil line (Petite Ceinture): between Avenue Henri Martin and Pereire Levallois)
-Petite Ceinture: between Pereire Levallois and Porte de Clichy (Porte de Clichy is build on new infrastructure and not on the former PC).
-Docks line or La Plaine - Ermont-Eaubonne line: between Saint Ouen and Ermont Eaubonne (Saint Ouen is also build on new infrastructure).

Boulainvilliers station opened in 1900 with a railway link between the Auteuil line and Invalides line called "raccordement de Boulainvilliers" to serve the Exposition Universelle of 1900.
This railway was closed in 1937 and it reopened in 1988 with the RER C.

Originally Posted by Bogdy

Here is the the path of RER between Boulainvilliers and Pont Cardinet.
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sou...a=1,2,3&num=10

This is not the path of RER, it is more like the former Auteuil line.
The RER don't serve Pont Cardinet. The track between Pont Cardinet and Pereire Levallois is not in use since 1996 when the railway shuttle between both stations closed.

[Minato ku]

Bécon-les-Bruyères

[Minato ku]

Ermont-Eaubonne
Ermont-Eaubonne is major commuter station in the northwestern outer suburbs.
The station provides an interchange between.
-RER C, VMI branch
-Transilien H, Gare du Nord - Persan-Beaumont
-Transilien H, Gare du Nord - Pontoise
-Transilien J, Saint-Lazare - Ermont-Eaubonne



Platforms of the Transilien J to Saint-Lazare terminal with a VB2N stock.
Ermont-Eaubonne is the last station of the line Saint-Lazare - Ermont-Eaubonne. This line was created in 2006 to suppress the branch to Argenteuil of the RER C

I am standing on the RER C (northbound) platform, a Z 50000 of the Transilien H is visible.





A Z2N of the RER C bound to Pontoise arriving

Two RER C train

A Z 6100 of the Transilien H leaving the station to the north and a RIB bound to Gare du Nord.

RIB and Z2N are leaving the station

Z 6100 and Z 50000



Z 50000 and Z2N arriving at the same time

..but the Z 500000 left the station first. For an obvious reason the RER C and Transilien H (to Pontoise) share track north of Ermont-Eaubonne.

[Minato ku]

Nation
MI84

MI2N

MI2N and MI09

Two MI09

MS61

[Minato ku]

Magenta

[Minato ku]

Clichy Levallois.
While only 24 trains per hour (12tph per way) stop here in rush hour, there is about 130 trains per hour that pass through this station in rush hours.

Regional train going to Normandy



Three trains of the Transilien J going to Saint Lazare

V2BN

Followed by a RIB/RIO

[yabbes]

great photos :')

[Northridge]

RER A cab view
http://www.youtube.com/?glxBwatchv=u...feature=g-like

[Minato ku]

Trains return to normal after thousands stranded in Paris following railway incident
By RFI, November 08, 2012

Tens of thousands of passengers were blocked at a Paris train station on Wednesday evening, after an incident caused train delays and cancellations into the night. Two train conductors were victims of attacks, one of whom was hospitalised, by passengers angered by the slowdown.
What began as an electrical problem in the Paris suburb of Seine-et-Marne at 17h45 turned into an incident affecting nearly 50,000 people.

International train lines running to Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany ran late by around one hour, with one Eurostar train delayed for three hours.

It was commuter trains between Paris and its suburbs that were the most affected, where no trains were running for several hours. Thousands were left stranded at Paris’s Gare du Nord station until after midnight with no way to get home.

While the technical problem was fixed at around 18h40, some passengers exasperated by the lack of trains and information took to the rail tracks. The RATP, which runs the commuter train lines, was forced to cut electricity and stop all train traffic for security reasons.

“It was a snowball effect. Once people went onto the rails, it blocked all further traffic,” the spokesperson for the SNCF railway company, Antoine Debièvre told the AFP news agency.

On one commuter line, passengers were promised a bus once they reached a stop in the outerlying suburbs. However, when they arrived, the buses were not there and many were forced to pay for a taxi home.

"After waiting for hours in the dark between two stops, they promised that there would be buses... but then nothing," one commuter told the AFP news agency. "They must be joking. How am I supposed to pay for a taxi? I don't have any money."

By Thursday, train travel was up and running normally.

Paris’s railway system serves around 3 million passengers on 7,500 trains everyday, representing 40 per cent of the country’s railway traffic.

http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/201...ilway-incident
Some errors, it was the SNCF, not the RATP and Paris suburban railway system serves over 4 million people on working day.

[Minato ku]

Saint-Michel-Notre-Dame

[Minato ku]

Cab ride: Villiers sur Marne to Haussmann Saint-Lazare

[Minato ku]

Bagneux

[Minato ku]

RER and suburban train ridership in 2011

SNCF RER and suburban train: 698 million (+2.6%)
RATP RER: 469 million (+2.6%)
Total suburban rail network: 1,167 million (+2.6%)

[Minato ku]

Gare de Lyon



The Transilien R is the commuter network of the surface platform of Gare de Lyon.
164 km
34 stations
60,000 passengers per weekday

[Nephasto]

It goes from Gare the Lyon all the way to Melun without stoping? That's a realy long distance for a commuter train.
Also, Montargis station is very far from Paris. Also extremelly far for a commuter trains.

I think this is an interesting option though. Putting the transilien serving only the distant stations that aren't served by the RER.

[Minato ku]

Don't forget that all the way between Gare de Lyon and Melun is served by the RER D.
Like the Transilien P (Gare de l'Est), this network serve the outer part of Paris metropolitan area.

Montargis while not inside Paris metropolitan area is just at the edge.
Paris metropolitan extends on a large area because of an extremely good reason, there aren't any large city close to Paris.

Even Montargis is not big, only 69,692 lived in it's metropolitan area.