Agence pour la Promotion Internationnale de Lille Metropole

LILLE, 2^ND RAILWAY HUB IN FRANCE

 

Passenger traffic

- Lille Flandres is France's leading train station for regional traffic
- The Lille Europe station handles 8,000 passengers per day, i.e. 5 million per year (Eurostar and Thalys trains stop in Lille on their way to London and Brussels)
- The TER (regional railway network) totals 100,000 trips per day

 

 

Freight
A major place for exchanges and international flows of goods :
- 2^nd in France for transported tonnage
- 2^nd national rank as regards sales
- 120 train stations open to freight

 

Lille holds the world record for the length of automatic subway system
(45 km of VAL, a fully automatic and driver-less system)

THEY HAVE CHOSEN LILLE METROPOLE

 

• Companies specializing in railway subcontracting (EIMM, DESCAMPS, SIEMENS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, ALTEN, NEU INTERNATIONAL, GROUPE MÄDER, STL STAUBLI…)
• R&D institutions (ESTAS, LEOST, INRETS…), …), universities and top-ranking schools (ENSAM, ICAM, USTL, ESC Lille…)
• The European Railway Agency (ERA) has chosen Lille and Valenciennes to establish its head office

THE NORD-PAS DE CALAIS REGION, ONE OF THE MAIN CLUSTERS OF THE FRENCH RAILWAY INDUSTRY

 

• 1^st railway region in France 
• 10 000 jobs
• 40 % of France's railway manufacturing activities
• 18 % of European sales for intercity and urban rolling stock manufacturing comes from the Lille area
• Presence of 3 global manufacturers : ALSTOM, BOMBARDIER, SIEMENS