Regularity found on the Limoges-Périgueux-Bordeaux line

The Limoges-Périgueux-Bordeaux line committee has announced that work is planned in the stations and that 2024 is synonymous with better figures for attendance and regularity.

After a catastrophic year, TER trains are returning to more acceptable punctuality on the Limoges-Périgueux-Bordeaux line.

During a line committee, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region stated that the regularity rate was 88% over the first five months of the year and that the rate of train cancellations had been reduced to 5%.

As elsewhere in New Aquitaine, punctuality figures were particularly bad for TER last year. The Limoges-Périgueux-Bordeaux line saw only 81.1% of its trains arrive on time in 2023, compared to 87.8% in 2022, while 13% of trains had been canceled in 2023 compared to 6.2 % in 2022.

Bad figures that the region explains by the storms of the fall – which brought up to 25% of the fleet to a standstill –, the social movements at the start of the year and the lack of drivers.

Very busy line

However, the line remains one of the busiest in New Aquitaine, with 4,990 users per day, or an average of 76 passengers per train. Attendance stagnated in 2023, if we compare it to 2022, while at the same time, we noted an increase of 5.5% in the rest of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. However, the SNCF showed, during the line committee, with a supporting diagram, that attendance on Limoges-Périgueux-Bordeaux was significantly increasing in the first months of 2024.

Work in stations in 2025

Maintenance and regeneration work is planned for 2024 and 2025 on the entire line. Between Limoges and Périgueux, it is planned in 2025 to “upgrade” all the stopping points. The surface of the platforms will be reclaimed, furniture will be installed (shelters, benches, trash cans), signage and lighting will be modernized, and the bicycle offering will be improved. “We are entering modernity,” commented Florent Kunc, from SNCF gares et connections.

In 2025, no changes will be made to the schedules

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