Intercités de Nuit Paris–Nice

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.

Stations

1. 0 kmGare d'Austerlitz +5
2. 875 kmMarseille-Blancarde
3. 1,035 kmGare de Saint-Raphaël-Valescure
4. 1,097 kmNice-Ville +3

The stations that Wikidata lists as calls of this service, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. 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.

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

How this line was checked

• Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 6 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5.5 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

Questions and answers

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