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The LGV Rhin-Rhône (Ligne à Grande Vitesse) is a high-speed railway line, the first in France to be built as an inter-regional route rather than a link from the provinces to Paris. The first phase of the eastern branch opened on 11 December 2011. Construction of its second phase was expected to start in 2014 but has unclear funding at this stage. If completed, LGV Rhin-Rhône would have three branches: * The Eastern branch, from Genlis, near Dijon to Lutterbach, near Mulhouse, of which have been built * The Western branch, crossing Dijon, joining the LGV Sud-Est near Montbard * The Southern branch, from Dijon to Lyon The construction of the latter two branches and of the second phase of the Eastern branch is currently unfunded. Running north-south, the Southern branch line would help connect Germany, the north of Switzerland, and eastern France on the one hand with the valleys of the Saône, Rhône, the Mediterranean arc and finally Catalonia on the other. The east-west Eastern and Western branches lines would help connect on the one hand London, Brussels, Lille and Île-de-France (i.e., Paris and surroundings) with Burgundy, Franche-Comté, south Alsace, southern Baden, and Switzerland on the other. A connection will be built at Perrigny, south of Dijon, to serve TGV and freight trains. Auxon station will be connected to Besançon-Viotte station by a railway line which could be also used for commuter trains. It is projected that 12 million passengers per year will use the LGV Rhine-Rhône service.〔Railway Gazette, (Presidential opening for LGV Rhin-Rhône ), 8 september 2011.〕 ==Eastern branch== The first phase of the eastern branch runs of the 190 km planned length, connecting Villers-les-Pots (east of Dijon) to Petit-Croix (southeast of Belfort), was officially opened by President Nicolas Sarkozy on 8 September 2011, with passenger services starting on 11 December 2011. The eastern branch is used by TGV trains operated by SNCF, the French national railway company. It will become a key link in both the North-South and East-West transport corridors. The line carries regional, national, and intra-European traffic. Mulhouse provides connection to Basel, Switzerland, and then to southwestern Germany and northwestern Switzerland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LGV Rhin-Rhône」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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