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Line N
Overview
Termini	Paris-Montparnasse Dreux Mantes-la-Jolie Rambouillet
Stations	35
Service
Type	Commuter rail
System	Transilien
Operator(s)	SNCF
Rolling stock	Z8800, Z57000 BB 7600 + VB 2N BB 27300 + VB 2N
Daily ridership	117,000
History
Opened	10 September 1840 (1840-09-10) (first sections) 31 December 2004 (2004-12-31) (recreated as Line N)
Technical
Line length	117 km (73 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)

v t e Transilien Line N
Legend
Paris-Montparnasse Vanves–Malakoff Clamart Meudon Bellevue Sèvres-Rive-Gauche Chaville-Rive-Gauche to Chaville–Vélizy Viroflay-Rive-Gauche to Chaville-Rive-Droite Versailles-Chantiers Saint-Cyr Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Fontenay-le-Fleury Trappes Villepreux–Les Clayes La Verrière Plaisir–Les Clayes Coignières Plaisir–Grignon Les-Essarts–Le-Roi Le Perray Rambouillet Beynes Mareil-sur-Mauldre Villiers–Neauphle–Pontchartrain Maule Montfort-l'Amaury–Méré Nézel–Aulnay Garancières–La Queue Épône–Mérières Orgerus–Béhoust Mantes-la-Jolie Tacoignières–Richebourg Houdan Marchezais–Broué Dreux

Transilien Line N is a railway line of the Paris Transilien suburban rail network. The trains on this line travel between Gare Montparnasse in Paris and the west of Île-de-France region, with termini in Rambouillet, Dreux and Mantes-la-Jolie. The line has a total of 117,000 passengers per weekday.

Rolling stock

As of March 2013, the following trains are operated on the line : SNCF Class Z 5300 (only on sections electrified with 1500 V direct current), SNCF Class BB 27300 and BB 7600 [fr] (SNCF Class BB 7200 modified, since 2012, also only on sections electrified with 1500 V direct current) with voiture de banlieue à 2 niveaux coaches.

In the beginning of 2013, some Z 5300 trains are being removed from the line.

Rambouillet Line

This line according to SNCF will get from start to terminus in 1hr03mins, and operates as per this route, on the Paris–Brest railway:

• Gare Montparnasse
• Vanves–Malakoff station
• Clamart station
• Meudon station
• Bellevue station
• Sèvres-Rive-Gauche station
• Chaville-Rive-Gauche station
• Viroflay-Rive-Gauche station
• Versailles-Chantiers station
• Saint-Cyr station
• Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines–Montigny-le-Bretonneux station
• Trappes station
• La Verrière station
• Coignières station
• Les Essarts-le-Roi station
• Le Perray station
• Rambouillet station

This line is electrified using a 1500 V direct current.

Dreux Line

This line according to SNCF will get from start to terminus in 1hr, and operates as per this route, on the Paris–Brest railway up to Saint-Cyr, then on the ligne de Saint-Cyr à Surdon [fr]:

• same route as the Rambouillet line between Paris-Montparnasse and Saint-Cyr
• Fontenay-le-Fleury station
• Villepreux–Les-Clayes station
• Plaisir–Les-Clayes station
• Plaisir–Grignon station
• Villiers–Neauphle–Pontchartrain station
• Montfort-l'Amaury–Méré station
• Garancières–La Queue station
• Orgerus–Béhoust station
• Tacoignières–Richebourg station
• Houdan station

Leave Île-de-France

• Marchezais–Broué station
• Dreux station

This line is electrified using a 1500 V direct current between the Montparnasse station and the Plaisir-Grignon station, and a 25000 V alternating current elsewhere.

Mantes-la-Jolie Line

• same route as the Dreux line between Paris-Montparnasse and Plaisir - Grignon, on the Paris–Brest railway up to Saint-Cyr, then on the ligne de Saint-Cyr à Surdon [fr] up to Plaisir, then on the ligne de Plaisir - Grignon à Épône - Mézières [fr] up to Épône - Méziéres, and finally on the Paris–Le Havre railway:
• Beynes station
• Mareil-sur-Mauldre station
• Maule station
• Nézel–Aulnay station
• Épône–Mézières station
• Mantes-la-Jolie station

This line is electrified using a 1500 V direct current between the Montparnasse station and the Plaisir-Grignon station, and a 25000 V alternating current elsewhere.

Names of service

Like other Transilien lines the name of service consists of four letters, but is not always displayed on trains, but it can be seen on passenger information display systems.

Taking GEPU (which is for a train that runs express between Paris-Montparnasse and Sèvres-Rive-Gauche then stops all stations to Plaisir-Grignon) as an example, the table describes how names of services are structured.

There is also codes given to Chartres TER services, which are PACE towards Paris-Montparnasse, and CAPO towards Chartres.

See also

• List of Transilien stations

References

1. SNCF Transilien : Ligne N : plan, horaires, travaux, information, actualités SNCF, 10/2014
2. "Nom de code". Ensemble sur les lignes N et U (in French). SNCF. 27 August 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2022.

External links

• (in French) Transilien Paris – Montparnasse on the Transilien website

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