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The Turin–Lyon high-speed railway is an international rail line under construction between the cities of Turin and Lyon, [1] [2] which is intended to link the Italian and French high-speed rail networks. [3] It will be 270 km (170 mi) long, of which over 100 km (62 mi) will be tunneled.
The A43 autoroute, also known as l'autoroute alpine and l'autoroute de la Maurienne, is a motorway in France.Travelling through the French Alps, the road connects the city of Lyon with the Tunnel du Fréjus, near Modane, which passes the Italian border towards Turin.
The Turin–Lyon line will connect Turin, Lyon and Chambéry, and join the Italian and the French high speed rail networks. It would take over the role of the current Fréjus railway . The project costs €26 billion, with the Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel , a 57.5 km (35.7 mi) trans-alpine tunnel between Italy and France, costing €18.3 billion ...
On 29 September 1996 five EuroCity trains were introduced between Lyon and Turin. [9] Three of them, Mont Cenis, Alexandre Dumas and Manzoni ran as far east as Milan; the other two, Fréjus and Monginevro served only the Turin - Lyon section.
A strict 70 km/h (43 mph) speed limit, and a safe distance of 150 m (160 yd) between vehicles was imposed. ... or in the even deeper Lyon Turin Ferroviaire 15 km to ...
The Turin–Lyon high-speed railway is a planned 270 km (170 mi)-long, 220 km/h (140 mph) railway line [2] that will connect the two cities and link the Italian and French high-speed rail networks. The core of the project is a base tunnel measuring 57.5 km crossing the Alps between the Susa valley in Italy and Maurienne in France . [ 3 ]
It has now been replaced in that role by Tunnel Euralpin Lyon Turin (TELT), with the same staff and leadership. The critical part of this planned line is the 57.5 km (35.7 mi) Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel between Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in France and the Susa Valley in Italy.
The distance from Paris (Gare de Lyon) to Lyon is 425 km (264 mi). The LGV route is 409 km (254 mi) long; by avoiding built-up areas between Paris and Lyon (particularly Dijon) this enables a route 87 km (54 mi) shorter than the regular line, which is 512 km (318 mi) long. There are no tunnels.