Night train route
Intercités de Nuit Paris–Briançon
Paris → Briançon · France
Intercités de Nuit Paris–Briançon in pictures
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- Distance
- 860 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 11 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 75 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs
- Train
- Corail couchette cars
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1884
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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
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