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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · Apr 20

1️⃣ Thread about one of the most improbable and extraordinary railway project which 🇨🇵 ever tried to realise.

Not in Mainland 🇲🇫, not in Corsica, but a across the Med, in the Empire: 🇲🇦🇩🇿, with extensions into 🇳🇪🇸🇳🇹🇩🇧🇫.

The TRANSAHARIAN 🛤️ (project)
MEDITERRANEAN - NIGER 🛤️
(At 🚧⛏️🛠️ stage)
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 20m

The current order, placed in 2023, is about 30 sets for 🇮🇹🇦🇹🇨🇭🇫🇷🇩🇪🇧🇪🇳🇱🇪🇦.
No express reference to 🇬🇧.

30 is not much for such a wide geographic area.

Perhaps the outstanding 10 optional sets will be specified to Channel Tunnel, if ever ordered.

And TI also eyes 🇵🇹 HSR.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 39m

Thoiry - Montmorillon ? Waw, impressive. Via Lyon P-D and Limoges B?

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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 45m

Haut-Bugey was re-opened on the cheapest:

not enough passing loops, and underspecified power supplies (on a line with 30%o gradients 😳😬🆘).

CFF won't make a material difference I'm afraid.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 51m

The day when 🇫🇷 defaults on debt and banks face a runaway, people will need lots cash for a few weeks.

SNCF will feel the pain for self-destroying its distribution system.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 57m

Yes, I know, thx 😋😉

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 58m

If SNCF doesn't want to maintain staffed counters and vending machines, perhaps it should go for free-of-charge operation 🤡🤡🤡

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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 1h

Ideally, Platform 1 should be "Chunnelisable" 30min per every 2hrs (post S-Bahn Tunnel completion...)

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 1h

Grand Est 🇫🇷

As RRR replacement, Region prefers 300-seat Regiolis to 420-seat Regio2N.

Such a lack of ambition 😔☹️

On RE Strasbourg - Karlsruhe via Appenweier, a dual-voltage (15+25kV) Regio2N would make sense.
@jonworth.eu

www.dna.fr/economie/202...

Grand Est. La Région va commander 16 nouvelles rames TER Régiolis assemblées à Reichshoffen

Pour remplacer les rames réversibles datant des années 1980-1990 qui circulent toujours en Alsace, la Région Grand Est a opté pour l’acquisition ...

www.dna.fr

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 1h

SNCF :

Wanna buy a ticket
(with compulsory booking on TGV, ex-Téoz IC
+More and more TER Paris ODs?

If using a ticket counter, you gotta book an appointment.
(29 stations so far).

i.e. BOOK YOUR BOOKING 🙃😬😳

Will Auchan or Carrefour ever do this?
@jonworth.eu

rmc.bfmtv.com/conso/transp...

SNCF: il faut désormais prendre rendez-vous avant d'acheter un billet aux guichets des gares

Depuis juillet dernier, il est obligatoire de prendre rendez-vous avant d'acheter un billet de train aux guichets des gares SNCF. Le service est actuellement en marche dans près de 29 gares. Mais il n...

rmc.bfmtv.com

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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 1h

If the current Mk2 are sets haven't been specified for Channel Tunnel operations, then it's very unlikely that these will ever run to 🇬🇧.

Retrofit will require thorough unbuilding and rebuilding.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 2h

And I'm pretty sure Hitachi will get more orders from TI, as ETR-500 replacement.

Delivery of the current MK2 Zefiros is drag on until 2029.

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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 2h

(Barcelona) to do a very substantial share of the job
(As for the S-100 order).
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 2h

ONCF expects the very first deliveries in 2028, so as to be on time for 🏆⚽ 2030.

Even more pressing to nowadays, 🇲🇦 already has in an-house LGV to make early trials.

Velvet expects its fleet from 2027.

If anything is ordered for 🇪🇦🇵🇹 HSR from Alstom, one may expect Santa Perpetua de la Moguda
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 2h

Alstom still have plans for a new production line for TGV-M.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 3h

And TMSTs are a non-standard design, which makes them even harder to maintain. Hence all those withdrawn sets used as a source of spare parts.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 3h

Lancy PR is somehow cramped nowadays...

Still, I wonder how that poorly-performing single-track line Bourg-Bellegarde will absorb more HSTs, as LEx will be extending to Nurieux.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 3h

substantially extend Secteur France and to fit a Channel Terminal inside, with flexible partitions
(Including on Platform 3).
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 4h

This way, all the current overground station can be specialised in traffic to/from 🇫🇷.

Tracks 1-3: LEx (mainly Annemasse Bellegarde more marginal)

Track 5: useless

Tracks 4, 6-8: TGV, IC, TER (non-stop to Bellegarde mostly) Annemasse possible but more marginal.)
That leaves enough room to
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 4h

Unless earlier plans to build a LARGE underground station at Cornavin get preferred again, it will be hard to find room for a Channel Terminal 🇨🇭🇬🇧.

The current downscaled project (1 island platform, 2 tracks), won't suffice.

With 2 and 4, then, all traffic to/from GVA ✈️ can be moved underground.
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 4h

If Le Train goes bust, it will be quite a political scandal in Western 🇫🇷...

And Crédit Mutuel will not like it at all 😬😬😬

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 4h

Are you SURE about this? 🤔🧐

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 4h

So, if Le Train goes ahead, which rolling-stock will they use?

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 4h

Like KevinSpeed and Alstom for Avelia Stream.

Even Le Train and its letter of intend to Talgo look more serious.

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

1 of the 3 shortlisted bidding consortium includes:

- KTM (🇲🇾 national railways)
- DB
- Hitachi
- Rotem
theedgemalaysia.com/node/773159

Malaysia yet to decide on development model for KL–Singapore High-Speed Rail

Malaysia has yet to decide on the Kuala Lumpur–Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) project, despite seeking concept proposals from private firms two years ago.

theedgemalaysia.com

pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 8h

Final approval to TGV-M may help...

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