Night train route
Intercités de Nuit Paris–Briançon
Paris → Briançon · France
France’s southern-Alps sleeper: lights out at Austerlitz, blinds up in the Durance valley, arrival under the Vauban walls of France’s highest city.
- Distance
- 860 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 11 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 75 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmParis-Austerlitz +5
- 648 kmValence-Ville +1
- 682 kmCrest
- 718 kmDie
- 738 kmLuc-en-Diois
- 779 kmVeynes-Dévoluy +1
- 805 kmGap +1
- 821 kmChorges +1
- 841 kmEmbrun +1
- 857 kmMontdauphin-Guillestre +1
- 872 kmL'Argentière-les-Écrins +1
- 885 kmBriançon +1
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 10381643: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 80 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 27 m from it
- 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
- 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 de Nuit Paris–Briançon?
The Intercités de Nuit Paris–Briançon runs 860 km from Paris to Briançon.
How long does the Intercités de Nuit Paris–Briançon take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 11 h 30 min for the 860 km. That is an average of 75 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 160 km/h.
Who runs the Intercités de Nuit Paris–Briançon?
SNCF Voyageurs, with Corail couchette cars.
How old is the Intercités de Nuit Paris–Briançon?
The line has been in service since 1884. 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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