Classic route
Intercités Bordeaux–Marseille
Bordeaux → Marseille · France
The great southern transversale, Atlantic to Mediterranean with no Paris detour: Garonne vineyards, Carcassonne’s citadel and the Sète lagoons on the slow way round to Marseille.
- Distance
- 651 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 6 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 95 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmBordeaux Saint-Jean +3
- 135 kmAgen +1
- 205 kmMontauban-Ville-Bourbon +2
- 250 kmLacourtensourt +2
- 256 kmToulouse-Matabiau +4
- 347 kmCarcassonne +1
- 405 kmNarbonne +1
- 431 kmBéziers +2
- 503 kmMontpellier Saint-Roch +1
- 552 kmNîmes Centre +2
- 678 kmMarseille Saint-Charles +3
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 406826: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 32 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via SNCF: our line passes within 190 m of every station train 4657 (Bordeaux–Marseille) calls at (the operator publishes no route geometry to compare)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Intercités?
The Intercités runs 651 km from Bordeaux to Marseille.
How long does the Intercités take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 6 h 50 min for the 651 km. That is an average of 95 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 200 km/h.
Who runs the Intercités?
SNCF, with BB 26000 + Corail.
How old is the Intercités?
The line has been in service since 1857. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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