RER C

The view from Île des Cygnes Cygnes towards the Eiffel Tower, with a RER-C train crossing the Pont Rouelle.

RER C
Year opened	1979
Last extension	2006
Rolling stock	Z 5600, Z 8800, Z 20500, Z 20900
Stations served	84
Length	185.6 km (115.3 mi)
Average interstation	2,184 m
Journeys made	140,000,000 (per annum)
Paris public transport Métro lines line 1 line 7bis line 2 line 8 line 3 line 9 line 3bis line 10 line 4 line 11 line 5 line 12 line 6 line 13 line 7 line 14 RER lines line A line D line B line E line C Suburban rail (Transilien) Saint-Lazare Nord La Défense Est Montparnasse Lyon Airport shuttles CDGVAL Orlyval Bus Bus (RATP) Noctilien   Bus (Optile)   Tramway Tramway T1 Tramway T2 Tramway T3 Tramway T4 Other Montmartre funicular

The RER C is one of the five lines in the RER Rapid transit system serving Paris, France.

The line runs from Pontoise (C1), Versailles – Rive Gauche (C5) and Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (C7) to Massy-Palaiseau (C2), Dourdan-la-Forêt (C4), Saint-Martin d'Étampes (C6) and Versailles – Chantiers (C8)

• First inauguration : 1979
• Length : 185.6 km (115.3 miles)
• Number of stops : 84

Line C was created in 1979 by connecting the Gare d'Orsay railway terminus (now Musée d'Orsay) with the Invalides terminus of the Rive Gauche line to Versailles, along the banks of the Seine. In 1988 the Argenteuil branch opened, using most of the infrastructure of the old SNCF Auteuil line and connecting to the line's main trunk at Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel via a curved bridge (the only one in Paris) over the Seine river.

Chronology

• September 26, 1979 : Inauguration of RER C, Versailles – Rive Gauche – Invalides – Quai-d'Orsay, branching to Massy – Palaiseau, and Juvisy - Dourdan / Saint-Martin d'Étampes, after the construction of a new 1-kilometre (0.62 mi) tunnel connecting the Gare d'Orsay to the Gare des Invalides.
• May 1980 : Service extended Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Versailles – Chantiers - Gare des Invalides.
• September 25, 1988 : Opening of VMI ("Vallée de Montmorency - Invalides") branch to northwest, to Montigny – Beauchamp and Argenteuil. Connection across Paris uses "ligne d'Auteuil" (incorporated into the "ligne de petite ceinture" from 1867, closed to passengers from July 22, 1934), and new tunnel connection Batignolles - St-Ouen, 3 kilometers (2 mi).
• September 29, 1991 : New station, Porte de Clichy, opened. Located between Pereire - Levallois and St-Ouen.
• 1992 : The line is extended from Juvisy to Versailles.
• August 28, 2000 : The line is extended from Montigny – Beauchamp to Pontoise, 9 kilometers (6 mi).
• August 28, 2000 : New station, Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, opened in order to create a new connexion with Métro Line 14. Located between Paris-Austerlitz and Boulevard Masséna (which was closed and replaced by the new station).
• March 24, 2002 : New station, St-Ouen-l'Aumône-Liesse, opened. Located between Pierrelaye and St-Ouen-l'Aumône.
• August 27, 2006 : C3 branch (from Ermont-Eaubonne to Argenteuil) transferred to Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail network.
• December 16, 2006 : Boulevard Victor is renamed Boulevard Victor - Pont du Garigliano for the arrival of the tramway line T3.

List of RER C stations

Geographically accurate path of the RER C.

• C1
  • Pontoise
  • Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône
  • Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône – Liesse
  • Pierrelaye
  • Montigny – Beauchamp
  • Franconville – Le Plessis-Bouchard
  • Cernay
  • Ermont – Eaubonne
  • Saint-Gratien
  • Épinay-sur-Seine
  • Gennevilliers
  • Les Grésillons
  • Saint-Ouen
  • Porte de Clichy
  • Pereire - Levallois
  • Neuilly - Porte Maillot
  • Avenue Foch
  • Avenue Henri Martin
  • Boulainvilliers
  • Avenue du Président Kennedy
• C5, C7
  • C5
    • Versailles – Rive Gauche
    • Porchefontaine
  • C7
    • Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
    • Saint-Cyr
    • Versailles – Chantiers
  • Viroflay – Rive Gauche
  • Chaville – Vélizy
  • Meudon – Val Fleury
  • Issy
  • Issy – Val de Seine
  • Boulevard Victor - Pont du Garigliano
  • Javel
• Champ de Mars - Tour Eiffel
• Pont de l'Alma
• Invalides
• Musée d'Orsay
• St-Michel - Notre-Dame
• Gare d'Austerlitz
• Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
• Ivry-sur-Seine
• Vitry-sur-Seine
• Les Ardoines
• Choisy-le-Roi
• C2
  • Les Saules
  • Orly – Ville
  • Pont de Rungis – Aéroport d'Orly
  • Rungis – La Fraternelle
  • Chemin d'Antony
  • Massy – Verrières
  • Massy – Palaiseau
• C4, C6, C8
  • Villeneuve-le-Roi
  • Ablon
  • Athis-Mons
  • Juvisy
  • Savigny-sur-Orge
  • C4, C6
    • Épinay-sur-Orge
    • Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois
    • Saint-Michel-sur-Orge
    • Brétigny-sur-Orge
    • C4
      • La Norville - Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon
      • Arpajon
      • Égly
      • Breuillet - Bruyères-le-Châtel
      • Breuillet - Village
      • Saint-Chéron
      • Sermaise
      • Dourdan
      • Dourdan-la-Forêt
    • C6
      • Marolles-en-Hurepoix
      • Bouray
      • Lardy
      • Chamarande
      • Étréchy
      • Étampes
      • Saint-Martin d'Étampes
  • C8
    • Petit Vaux
    • Gravigny – Balizy
    • Chilly-Mazarin
    • Longjumeau
    • Massy – Palaiseau
    • Igny
    • Bièvres
    • Vauboyen
    • Jouy-en-Josas
    • Petit Jouy - Les Loges
    • Versailles – Chantiers

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Paris RER ligne C

• List of stations of the Paris Métro
• List of stations of the Paris RER

External links

• RATP official website (in French)
• RATP English speaking website
• Interactive Map of the RER (from RATP's website)
• Interactive Map of the Paris métro (from RATP's website)
• Mobidf website, dedicated to the RER (unofficial) (in French)
• Metro-Pole website, dedicated to Paris public transports (unofficial) (in French)

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