Classic route
Intercités
Paris → Toulouse · France
- Distance
- 713 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 113 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- BB 26000 + Corail
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1856
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The cross-country POLT line, Paris-Orléans-Limoges-Toulouse, runs 713 km through the Massif Central on France’s classic north–south artery.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3975044 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 56 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 17 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 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
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