Line B () is a line on the

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that runs between Charpennes and Gare d'Oullins. It was constructed using the

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method, and went into service on 2 May 1978. Together with Line A, it was one of the inaugural lines of the Lyon Metro. It has since been extended three times: from Part-Dieu to Jean Macé in 1981, from Jean Macé to Stade de Gerland in 2000, and from Stade de Gerland to Oullins railway station in 2013. The line serves 10 stations, and is long. Line B trains run on

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s rather than

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s; it is a rubber-tired metro line.

List of the stations

* Charpennes - Charles Hernu (transfers: metro A, trams T1, T4) * Brotteaux *

Part-Dieu Part-Dieu () is an area of Lyon Metropolis. It is also the second largest tertiary district in France, after La Défense in Greater Paris, with over 1,150,000 m2 of office and service space, along with 45,000 service sector jobs, 2,500 compan ...

- Vivier Merle (transfers:

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, trams T1, T3, T4,

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) * Place Guichard - Bourse du Travail * Saxe-Gambetta (transfer: metro D) *

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(transfers:

, tram T2) * Place Jean-Jaurès * Debourg (transfer: tram T1) * Stade de Gerland * Oullins (transfer:

)

Chronology

* 2 May 1978: Charpennes - Part-Dieu * 14 September 1981: Part-Dieu - Jean Macé * 4 September 2000: Jean Macé - Stade de Gerland * 11 December 2013: Stade de Gerland - Gare d'Oullins

Future

Line B was extended a few kilometres southbound from ''Stade de Gerland'' to

Oullins Oullins () is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is a suburb of the city of Lyon, and is adjacent to it on the southwest. Population Transport *Several Buses (C7, C10, 8, 12, 14, 17, 63, ...

railway station. A tunnel had to be built under the

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. This extension opened on 11 December 2013 at 2pm (11/12/13, 14:00). By 2023, Line B will be extended from ''Gare d'Oullins'' to ''Hôpital Lyon Sud'' (South Lyon Hospital). This extension will be long of 2.5 kilometres and will create two new stations: The first is "Oullins Centre" (city center of Oullins) and the second is "Hôpital Lyon Sud" (South Lyon Hospital). Since June 2022, line B runs with a new driverless system, and new

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trains circulate on it. This new rolling stock has been ordered to

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in 2016. The current MPL 75 trains will join the others MPL 75 of line A to increase the capacity.

References

External links

Transports en Commun Lyonnais (TCL)
3rd arrondissement of Lyon Rubber-tyred metros Railway lines opened in 1978 B {{France-metro-stub