🇫🇷🚆 The RER E extension in Paris is now fully operational! Picture this: 224 m (735 ft) double-decker trains, running every 4 minutes, speeding through deep tunnels at 120 km/h (75 mph) beneath the historic heart of the French capital. The RER truly is on another level!

When the second phase (10 stations over 47 km of tracks) opens, frequencies will rise to every 2 minutes 43 seconds and eventually every 2 minutes 8 seconds

🎥 📸 French Railway - Cab Ride Arthur Weidmann

I rode this extension a couple days after it opened. The stations still had a “new house smell”! Amazing what Europe has managed to build in the last 10 years - and France in particular shows no signs of slowing down!

Would love to have seen the Elizabeth Line with double decker trains. Paris always just does a little bit extra for their transport and I love that :)

The only problem I have with the RER/Transilien system is whatever is going on there with its branches. Just give them numbers (RER A1/2/3, J1/2/3/4) or idk whatever mess RER C is. If I look at the plan, I don't have any idea which train goes from where to where:

Also, importantly, any business man or woman travelling between the Paris business district (La Défense) to or from London, Brussels and Frankfurt (M), now has to make only ONE change of train, at Paris Magenta.

@SouthEastRailGp A very deep level as far as I could judge, when I ended up in the E part of the station by mistake at La Defense in October! (But yes, very impressive. As a Londoner I am wildly jealous)

What’s the capacity of the trains? In São Paulo’s CPTM which is similar to RER we have 6 minutes intervals, but I think we should lower that and have higher capacity trains.

En tant qu'usager, je confirme que ces nouvelles stations et ces trains neufs sont très agréables. La fiabilité est une autre histoire : il m'a fallu 40 minutes ce matin pour faire deux stations, au lieu des 7 minutes théoriques.

And it took London half a million years and all the money the world has ever known to build the crappy Elizabeth line. I’m London’s biggest fan but Crossrail was a colossal scandal.