Classic route
Intercités
Paris → Clermont-Ferrand · France
- Distance
- 420 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 123 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- BB 26000 + Corail
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1855
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Bourbonnais line to the Auvergne volcanoes; new Oxygène trainsets arrive from 2026 to retire its veteran Corail carriages.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 401466 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of IC 5955
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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