Night train route
Intercités de Nuit Paris–Nice
Paris → Nice · France
Intercités de Nuit Paris–Nice in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,088 km
- Fastest time
- 12 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 88 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs
- Train
- Corail couchette cars
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 2021
- Runs
- nightly each way
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Relaunched in 2021 as heir to the fabled Train Bleu: board at Austerlitz, wake to the red Estérel cliffs and the sea glittering at Saint-Raphaël.
France’s night-train revival made this its flagship in May 2021, returning couchettes to the Riviera run after a four-year gap. The train leaves Austerlitz mid-evening, takes the classic Rhône-left-bank freight route south through the dark, and delivers its reward after Toulon: a slow dawn cruise along the Côte d’Azur, red Esterel rock on one side and the Mediterranean on the other, calling at Cannes and Antibes before Nice-Ville. It is routinely France’s most heavily booked sleeper.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 6 m); the longest stretch away from it is 9 km
- 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
Along the way
- Gare d’Austerlitz send-off
- Rhône valley by night
- Dawn beyond Toulon
- Esterel red rocks and coves
- Cannes bay at breakfast
- Baie des Anges arrival
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