Classic route
Amiens–Rouen railway
Amiens → Rouen · France
- Distance
- 117 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 83 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs ↗
- Train
- TER Hauts-de-France
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1867
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Opened complete on 18 April 1867 rather than in stages, and still the cross country way from Picardy into Normandy by Poix-de-Picardie, Abancourt and Serqueux.
How this line was checked
- The 98 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1866609 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SNCF Connect — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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