Classic route
Caen–Le Mans–Tours
Caen → Tours · France
Caen–Le Mans–Tours in pictures
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- Distance
- 263 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 05 min
- Average speed
- 85 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- SNCF TER
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1858
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Normandy to the Loire without touching Paris: the cross-country line through Alençon and Le Mans that the TGV network forgot.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2826653 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of TER16550 (Zug-Nr. 16550)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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