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Orlyval

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Orlyval

Year opened

1991

Last extension

1991

Rolling stock

VAL 206

Stations served

Length

7.3 km

Length

4.6 mi

Average interstation

3,650 m

Journeys made

2,500,000 (per annum)

Paris public transport

RER lines
Image:Paris rer A jms.svg	line A	Image:Paris rer D jms.svg	line D
Image:Paris rer B jms.svg	line B	Image:Paris rer E jms.svg	line E
Image:Paris rer C jms.svg	line C

Suburban rail (Transilien)
Image:Paris logo banlieu jms.svg	Saint-Lazare	Image:Paris logo banlieu jms.svg	Nord
Image:Paris logo banlieu jms.svg	La Défense	Image:Paris logo banlieu jms.svg	Est
Image:Paris logo banlieu jms.svg	Montparnasse	Image:Paris logo banlieu jms.svg	Lyon

Airport shuttles
Image:Paris logo orlyval jms.svg	CDGVAL	Image:Paris logo orlyval jms.svg	Orlyval

Bus
Image:Paris logo bus jms.svg	Bus (RATP)	Image:Paris logo noctilien jms.svg	Noctilien
	Bus (Optile)
Tramway
Image:Paris tram 1 jms.svg	Tramway T1	Image:Paris tram 2 jms.svg	Tramway T2
Image:Paris tram 3 jms.svg	Tramway T3	Image:Paris tram 4 jms.svg	Tramway T4

Orlyval is a small automatic metro which runs a shuttle service to Paris's Orly Airport from the RER network, with which it connects at Antony station on line B.

It was opened on October 2, 1991, the second line to use the VAL automatic metro.

The construction was controversial: the competing proposal for a public transport link to the airport involved a railway line integrated to the RER network, which would have allowed trains from various origins to serve the airport. The shuttle option was seen as the least integrated with the rest of the network.

Initially it was run privately by Matra, but because construction and operating costs were too high to generate profits, the line was later passed over to the publicly owned RATP. It remains, however, the only public transport link in the Paris region on which the Carte Orange travel pass is not valid.