Talk:RER A

This is a legitimate and useful article, but it needs a lot of improvement e.g. better title, better introduction, proper categorization. PatGallacher 17:09, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Just a little problem : on the map of the RER A shown on this page, it looks as if Nanterre-Université was the last station of the central part of RER A, but it is in fact situated on the St-Germain branch. This map should be corrected. benji 12:54, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You're indeed right Benji, however, the purpose of the map is to show the line at an accurate scale, and as far as I know trains going to Poissy and Cergy are crossing the Nanterre-Université station without stopping. Maybe there's a solution in sacrificing a bit of "accuracy" for the sake of clarity. That's up to you. :-) Metropolitan 13:30, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Busy, but not busiest
RER Line A carries impressive passenger traffic but is far from the "world's busiest rail transit line." One reason for the large passenger volume is the great length of this line - 108.5 km. There are few complete "rail transit" systems that exceed 100 km, let alone single lines. This claim for RER Line A needs to be put in perspective.

In terms of annual passenger traffic density (the number of passengers carried, on average, over each km of line) the RATP portion of RER Line A places at 47 million. That is a very large number for the "developed world," but it is not a "record." New York's Lexington Avenue Subway (which, admittedly, is not a "complete" line) carries about 80 million passengers over each km of route per year

There are many rail transit lines in "less developed" countries that carry much more than 47 million pass-km per km of route per year. The record-holder for a complete system appears to be the Moskva (Moscow) Metro, which carried more than 120 milion passengers (on average) over each km of route at 2004. The record-holder for a single line appears to be the Western Railway commuter line extending northward from Churchgate terminal, Mumbai (Bombay), which carries more than 145 million pass-km per km of route per year. The busiest portion of this line, between Churchgate terminal and Virar, carries almost 900 million passengers per year. The annual traffic density is about 255 million pass-km per km of route per year.

If no one objects, I will add a sentence or two in clarification. Ldemery 18:26, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

It is wrong to calculate in that way, why ? because the RER A have branch, to calculate the number of passenger per kilometer it is better to take only the central branch, and it is way bigger than 47 million pass-km Minato ku (talk) 05:43, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

if the Lexington Avenue Subway is not a "complete line" then RER A is not a complete line ether as both are trunk lines with a bunch of branches fanning out to the suburbs. Terramorphous (talk • contribs) 21:15, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
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New articles
There still needs to be wiki pages on Mi09, Mi79 and Mi84. RedProofHill123 (talk) 20:36, 18 November 2017 (UTC)


 * No, that wouldn't be necessary. They're not used much outside of the RER system, so there isn't much to say about them.  Bruzer Fox  23:52, 18 November 2017 (UTC)