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Hot News: NEW RELEASE on December 15th 2002

The Paris Gare du Nord/Marne la Vallee - Lille Europe TGV Line
   
Thousands of hours of work has finally brought the product you are waiting for.....

We are proud to announce the release of the Paris - Lille high speed rail line. With this line you can drive at high speeds up to 300 km/h between in the world in the north of France.

We have visited the tracksite a lot of times to rebuild the route for Train Simulator. We have taken a lot of pictures of the regions to produce a near real world scenery. We have put some of these pictures on the internetsite.

 
This route has over 350 km of new track. This track is built for the Corail traffic, the RER regional express metro and of course the 300km/h TGVs, Eurostars and Thalys trains.
 
We have built new buildings like stations, bridges and tunnels in reality.
Stations
  • Lille Europe station
  • Lille Flandres station
  • TGV Haute Picardie station
  • Aeroport Charles de Gaulle TGV station
  • Marne la Vallee Chessy (near parc Disneyland) station
  • RER stations
Bridges
  • The 1.5 km long bridge near Verberie
  • Bridges over the highways
  • Normal viaducts over water and other roads
Tunnels
  • The 2 tunnels near Verberie
  • Tunnel at Assevilliers beside the highway
  • Tunnel under Aeroport Charles de Gaulle
  • Tunnel to Paris Gare du Nord station for the RER traffic
New textures
  • Grain
  • 5 types of grass
  • yellow coleseed
 
Traffic
We have created traffic files for the activties with different types of traffic in it.
  • RER traffic, for the suburban RER trains. RER line B and D.
    • About every 5 minutes trains in four directions.
      • RER B Traffic to and from Paris Nord and La Plaine.
      • RER D Traffic to and from Paris Nord and Goussainville.
  • TGV traffic, for the TGV, Thalys and Eurostar trains.
  • About every 30 minutes trains from different stations. That means a very high traffic on the TGV Nord line.
    There are:
    • Arras – Paris traffic with TGV Reseau trains
    • Lille Flandres - Paris Nord with TGV Reseau trains
    • (London*) – Lille Europe – Paris Nord with Eurostar trains
    • Lille Europe – TGV Haute Picardie – Aeroport Charles de Gaulle TGV – Marne la Vallee with TGV Reseau trains
    • (Brussels*) – Paris Nord with Thalys trains.

* (In this product the route from Lille to Brussels and London is not included. The line starts near west of Lille for London and east of Lille for Brussels)
  • Corailtrains, for the Corail trains heading for Goussainville.
    • About every 10 minutes.
    • Corail traffic to and from Paris Nord and Goussainville.
In these traffic files the trains start at about 07:00 with the first Thalys from (Brussels*) Fretin. This Thalys will arrive in Fretin (Brussels*) again about 2:30 later. The last train starts about at 12:15.
So when you start an activity and you don’t want other trains in front of you, select an activity which starts about 13:00.
 

We use for these activities the following trains. These are not included in the package but can be downloaded seperately from the internet.

  • Christrains SNCF 7200 (free)
  • Christrains Eurostar (free)
  • SNCF Corail cars (free)
  • Speedworks TGVs Version2 (payware)
  • MI-79 RER trains for the RER B line (free)
  • Z56000 RER trains for the RER D line (free)

Of course you can change these trains to the trains you want.

Watching trains

Our route gives you the unique opportunity where you can sit back and enjoy the sights you have from TrainSimulator.

  • You have a sight at:
  • Haute Picardie station where the trains pass with a speed of 300 km/h.
  • Gare du Nord RER station where the RER trains depart and arrive every few minutes.
  • Goussainville station where the RER and Corail trains stop and pass with a speed of 160 km/h.