Classic route
Intercity
Namur → Lille · Belgium · France
- Distance
- 149 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 14 min
- Average speed
- 67 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SNCB · SNCF
- Train
- AM96
- Countries
- Belgium, France
- In service since
- 1843
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Wallonia end to end and out the other side, up the Sambre from Namur through Charleroi, La Louviere and Mons and over the French border to Lille, on a valley line opened in 1843 to move coal and steel.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 270670 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SNCF Connect — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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