Classic route
Intercités
Nantes → Lyon · France
- Distance
- 660 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 7 h
- Average speed
- 94 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs
- Train
- Intercités
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1870
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France’s great west–east diagonal, no Paris required: the Loire at Angers and Tours, Bourges’ cathedral, then Roanne and the Lyon hills.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 407260 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 43 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 12 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 4406
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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