LGV Poitiers-Limoges

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The LGV Poitiers-Limoges is an approximately 100 km long French high speed rail project reserved for passenger traffic between Poitiers and Limoges. Its dual aim is:

• to ensure high-speed service of the Limoges region by extension of the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique and make possible a journey time between Paris and Limoges of about 2 hours
• to link Poitiers and Limoges in 40 minutes.

Construction should start in 2011, the line being put in revenue service in 2016.

[edit] External links

• Réseau ferré de France (French)
• LGV Poitiers–Limoges (French)

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