Scenic route
Ligne de la Côte Bleue
Marseille → Miramas · France
Ligne de la Côte Bleue in pictures
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- Distance
- 69 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 55 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF (TER Sud PACA)
- Train
- B 81500 AGC
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1915
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
An everyday TER on a corniche of 23 tunnels and 18 viaducts: calanque after calanque between L’Estaque and Martigues for a few euros.
How this line was checked
- The 60 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 4199623 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 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
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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