Inauguration with great fanfare and music of the RER NG (New Generation), Monday November 13, produced by Alstom. Two years late, the first trains are now running on line E between Paris and Seine-et-Marne.
The new RER model (Regional Express Network train) has been awaited for two years, and it has finally left the Alstom factories. From Monday, November 13, this RER NG, for “New Generation”, is put into circulation on line E in Île-de-France, between Saint-Lazare station, in Paris, and Chelles-Gournay station, in Seine et Marne. It will then be gradually deployed on line D from 2024.
It will ultimately carry around 1.4 million passengers. The RER NG is intended to be more spacious, more comfortable and more energy efficient. Brightly colored seats, orange, green or mauve, increased brightness, with LEDs, and a feeling of space on board.
More accessible trains
Alstom CEO Henri Poupart Lafarge extols the merits of this new train: “When you go inside, you’ll see, the spaces are wider. It’s what we call “boa”, you can go from one car to another very fluidly. There are doors which are wider, which allows better accessibility.”
Capacity has been increased by 20% compared to current trains, s There are 1,550 seats per train, of which around a third are seats. Energy consumption has been reduced by 25%, according to Alstom.
A delay to be made up with accelerated deliveries
For all these reasons, it was eagerly awaited. Especially since it arrives two years behind schedule, ‘where the warning launched today by Valérie Pécresse, the president of Ile-de-France Mobilités, the regional transport management authority: “I told Alstom: ‘the delays are now over’. We have to make up for the delay with deliveries clocked at four trains delivered per month.”
Trains which should then run for 40 years and cover no less than 6 million km.