Several metro, tram, RER and Transilien lines will be in service all night for December 31, free of charge. However, not all stations will be open.
Like every year, many public transport lines in the Ile-de-France region will remain open all night on December 31, for the transition to the new year. In addition, their access will be completely free, except for access to airports, from Tuesday December 31 at 5 p.m. to Wednesday January 1 at noon, announces Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) in a press release published on December 24.
BFMTV.com takes stock of the lines and stations open for the evening and night of the New Year.
Six metro lines
In total, six metro lines will continue to operate after 2:15 a.m. These are lines 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 and 14. Not all stations will be open. Find below for each line, the stations served.
Ligne 1: Château de Vincennes, Nation, Gare de Lyon, Bastille, Châtelet, Concorde, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George V, Charles de Gaulle Star, Porte Maillot, Pont de Neuilly, Grande Arche de la Défense
Ligne 2: Nation, Père Lachaise, Belleville, La Chapelle, Barbés-Rochechouart, Antwerp, Pigalle, Place de Clichy, Charles de Gaulle Étoile, Porte Dauphine
Ligne 4: Bagneux-Lucie Aubrac, Porte de Clignancourt, Barbès Rochechouart, Gare du Nord, Gare de l’Est, Strasbourg Saint-Denis, Les Halles, Châtelet, Saint-Michel, Gare Montparnasse, Denfert-Rochereau, Porte d’Orléans, Town hall Montrouge
Ligne 6: Nation, Bercy, Place d’Italie, Denfert-Rochereau, Gare Montparnasse, Cambronne, La Motte Picquet-Grenelle, Bir-Hakeim, Trocadéro, Kléber, Charles de Gaulle-Etoile
Ligne 9: Montreuil Town Hall, Porte de Montreuil, Nation, Oberkampf, Strasbourg Saint-Denis, Grands Boulevards, Havre-Caumartin, Saint Augustin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alma-Marceau, Trocadéro, La Muette, Porte de Saint-Cloud, Pont de Sèvres
Ligne 14: The entire line is served except Orly airport
Eleven RER and Transilien lines
On the RER and Transilien side, after the end of the usual service, several lines will continue to run. All RERs will run as well as lines H, J, L, N, P and R. On the tram side, only line T4 will run.
Please note, however, that the frequency of circulation may vary from one line to another and depending on the branches, ranging from one train every 18 minutes in Paris and only two trains per night for certain branches. The details can be found in the map below and on the Île-de-France Mobilités website.
Furthermore, on the majority of open lines, all stations will be open and accessible all night.
RER A: All stations will be served on the line
RER B: All stations will be served on the line
RER C: All stations are served except the branch between Ermont-Eaubonne and Pontoise (served by line H)
RER D: All stations are served except the branch between Corbeil-Essonnes and Malesherbes
RER E: From Gare de l’Est, all stations will be served on the line.
Lines H, J, L, N, P, R: All stations will be served on these lines.
T4: All stations will be served on the Bondy – Aulnay-sous-Bois route.
• Noctilien lines operational
No change regarding Noctilien, the lines will run “like a classic weekend night”.
Please note that from January 1 at 12:01 p.m., the new rates introduced by IDFM will come into effect. Thus, there will now be a single ticket at 2.50 euros for the entire Ile-de-France rail network and a 2 euro ticket for trams and buses.
