From December 15, 2024, SNCF lines in Île-de-France will return to a 100% service offering, equivalent to that in force in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic, thanks, in particular, to a recruitment campaign carried out by the company.
It was time for users in the Paris region. More than four and a half years after the Covid-19 pandemic, the transport network of the Transilien lines and certain RERs will return to traffic equivalent to the offer in force in 2019. From December 15, 2024, with the entry of the service annual 2025, SNCF announces a 100% offer on its Ile-de-France network.
This return to full capacity was made possible in particular thanks to a vast recruitment campaign led by the SNCF. No less than 1,100 people, including 455 drivers, have joined the railway company's workforce. Currently, the lines are operating at “around 95% of pre-covid traffic on the rail network”, specifies Île-de-France Mobilités, the authority responsible for transport in the region, to Le Parisien. This increase in power should significantly streamline traffic on the RER and Transilien lines.
Improved frequencies on the RER and Transilien lines
Users of the RER and Transilien lines will notice a clear improvement in train frequency. Trains on line N, between Paris-Montparnasse and Rambouillet (Yvelines), will now run every 30 minutes during off-peak hours, compared to a frequency of one hour currently, like line U.
For the RER C, on the Juvisy (Essonne)-Versailles-Château (Yvelines) route, trains will run every 15 minutes during off-peak hours, instead of 30 minutes. On the RER D, eight new, more spacious trainsets will enter service in December during off-peak times, on the Creil-Corbeil route. Around fifteen additional trains are planned for March 2025 to cover peak hours.
A complete service on the RER E
The big news concerns the RER E, which will benefit from a full service all day long. The extension of the line, inaugurated on May 6, now links Paris-Haussmann-Saint-Lazare to Nanterre-La Folie (Hauts-de-Seine), with stops at Porte Maillot and La Défense was only served to off-peak hours.
Thanks to the commissioning of 34 new RER NG, the frequency will be one train every 4 minutes during peak hours and every 6 to 8 minutes during off-peak hours. This development will make it possible to deconstruct lines A, B and D of the RER in Paris. SNCF estimates that 15% of RER A users could thus switch to line E, improving the overall fluidity of the network.
“From December 15, users of the Villiers branch of the RER E will find an RER every quarter of an hour all day long, including mornings on weekends,” SNCF also declared to our colleagues.
