The Tangier-Casablanca TGV line will be inaugurated on Thursday, November 15, by King Mohamed VI and French President Emmanuel Macron, during a ceremony to be held in the city of Detroit and aboard the train itself. The opportunity to return to a titanic site that makes Morocco the first country in Africa to have a high-speed line. However, it will be necessary to wait Friday, November 16th to know the date of putting into service to the public as well as the prices of the tickets of the six proposed routes.
It took 11 years to implement the first phase of the high-speed line project launched in 2007 after signing a memorandum of understanding between King Mohammed VI and former President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The 200-kilometer high-speed track, which will be inaugurated this Thursday, November 15, is in fact only the first step of an ambitious project to provide the territory with a 1,500-kilometer high-speed LGV network.
Date of commissioning and known tariffs the day after the inauguration
The inauguration which will take place in Tangier in the presence of the Heads of State of Morocco and France will concern the Al Boraq high-speed line between Tangier and Casa-voyageurs stations.
According to a reliable source, the date of opening to the public and the tariffs of the different routes (Tangier-Kenitra, Tangier-Rabat, Tangier-Casablanca) will be revealed by the director general of the office, Rabie Khlie during a conference of press to be held Friday, November 16 in Tangier.
To give an idea of the price schedule for the various trips proposed, the director general of the ONCF told a colleague that they would be 30% more senior than a conventional trip.
Wanting reassurance, he added that in case of booking 15 days before and choice of a less frequented time slot, the tickets could come back cheaper than a conventional train, according to the system adopted by the major airlines and airlines. railway companies.
While waiting to know these useful details and those of the next stages of the global LGV project, Médias24 delivers a round-up reminding you of everything you need to know before taking these new lines that may make you forget the disadvantages of old trains. ONCF.
First of all, the inauguration was planned for 2015, but the lengthy expropriation procedures delayed the completion of works started in 2011 and completed at the end of 2017.
Number of routes and stations
Knowing that the LGV serves only 4 stations (Tangier, Kenitra, Rabat and Casablanca), the rates that will be revealed to the public Friday will concern the following 6 routes (each in both directions):
Tangier-Kenitra
Tangier-Rabat
Tangier-Casablanca
Kenitra-Rabat
Kenitra-Casablanca
Rabat-Casablanca
At the end of a titanic project, it was necessary to conduct lengthy certification tests for railway lines and in-situ lapping of the trains throughout the year 2018.
The different time savings
An essential step knowing that once launched, the Tanger-Kenitra line will run at high speed (320 km / hour) and will not tolerate any human or technical error.
While waiting for the construction of a LGV track, the rest of the Kenitra-Rabat-Casablanca route will take a 3rd lane that will allow trains to run at 180 km / h against 160 km / h for conventional trains.
After the commercial opening, the journey times will be completely upset with a trip Tanger-Kenitra 47 minutes against 3H15 with a conventional train is a gain of 2H28.
Initially, the connections between Tangier-Rabat and Tangier-Casablanca will respectively 1H20 against 3H45 before and 2H10 against 4H45 which will earn 1H55 and 2:45.
Knowing that the duration of the trip Rabat-Casablanca, will be, from the start, 50 minutes and 30 minutes from 2020, so this is good news for those who commute daily and must wait at least 1:30 instead of the 45 minutes of a journey of less than 100 kilometers
From 2020, date of installation of rails allowing Al Boraq to run at high speed between Kenitra and the capitals of the country and the economy, the trip Tangier-Rabat will only require 1 hour (total gain, 2:45 ) while that of Tangier-Casablanca will take 1H30 (3h15 gain).
From the opening, 12 trains of high-speed duplex train each carrying 532 passengers will serve the four cities of Tangier, Kenitra, Rabat and Casablanca whose stations have been completely renovated or newly built.
LGV to the European standards the least expensive of the world ???
The total project cost of 22.9 billion dirhams was borne by Morocco and France, which provided 51% of loans, including 220 million euros granted by the French Development Agency
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When compared to the kilometer of built LGV track (222 km in total), the cost would be, according to the ONCF DG, “9 million euros per kilometer, which is much cheaper than the European costs (20 million euros). euros per kilometer) “.
Rabie Lakhlie had not hesitated to declare to the newspaper “Le Monde” that the ONCF was “building the high speed line to the least expensive European standards in the world”.
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Note that the first estimate established in 2007 was 19.9 billion dirhams or an additional cost of 300 million dirhams.
According to ONCF projections, between five and six million passengers should use the new line after 3 years of operation. This will be double the 3 million currently transported on the conventional rail line.
To summarize, the LGV that will be commissioned shortly has required 700,000 crossings, 1,600 tons of ballast, 7,400 catenary poles, 12 viaducts including that of El Hachef long 3.5 km (1MMDH), 169 road bridges and bridges- rails without counting a hundred hydraulic works.
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