Railway sections [BD TOPO®] - Department of the Channel

Definition of IGN: Homogeneous part of the track for all the attributes that concern it.

Selection: The following railway sections are selected:

• all LGV tracks in own site,
• all main tracks (continuity of which will be ensured in marshalling yards), operated or not,
• all service lanes, operated or not, from 300 m in length,
• special branch lines, industrial or service routes from 300 m long,
• urban tracks connected by rail to the national network, such as RER, regardless of their length,
• funicular railways at least 100 metres long,
• rack trains at least 100 metres long,
• tourist lines,
• rail bikes, from 1 km long,
• overhead metro lines and tram lines,
• railways under construction.

The following are excluded:

• the railways deposited (rails removed on the ground),
• sorting and garage tracks, generalized in Nature Transport Equipment="sorting area",
• railway lines located inside amusement parks.