It was requested by users, particularly those in the Neufchâteau sector in the Vosges. The rail connection between Nancy and Lyon has been re-established since Sunday December 15, 2024. The first train of the new line left at 7:46 a.m., and should arrive at its destination at 12:04 p.m. It now avoids having to go through Paris, but only one daily round trip is planned for the time being.
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Above all, don’t call it TER or regional express train : users of the new Nancy-Lyon line take their place in a TET, a territorial balance train. However, from afar and up close, the two look very similar. But the TET is the result of a political compromise, hence the presence for the photo at Nancy station of all the local decision-makers who enabled its implementation.
Until 2018, residents of Lorraine were entitled to a TGV to connect Lyon, but this was initially temporarily canceled due to work at the Part-Dieu station. Once these were completed, the train remained on a siding, and the connection had fallen into oblivion despite the regular mobilizations of travelers, notably those brought together by theAssociation of rail users of Neufchâteau and its surroundings (ADURNE).
Vosges users, united in an association, were waiting firmly in Neufchâteau for the first train of the new Nancy-Lyon link on Sunday December 15, 2024.
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© Eric Molodtzoff/France 3 Lorraine
Its president, Elisabeth Jandot, was present at the Neufchâteau stop this Sunday, December 15, 2024, to express her great satisfaction at the microphone of France 3 Lorraine: “we fought to obtain the return of this line, even if it is not exactly what we had before… We take what we are given and we hope that from 2029, as we are told he promised, we will have a direct link to the Mediterranean“.
On the train, Malou shares the general enthusiasm: “our son is in Lyon, so we go there often, and we had to go there by car, it was expensive, plus parking… So it took us four hours by train, by car it was a bit faster it’s true“.
The SNCF Voyageurs claims that 9,000 tickets have already been sold until March on the new Nancy-Lyon line.
