Classic route
Riviera Line
Nice → Ventimiglia · France · MC · Italy
Riviera Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 34 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 50 min
- Average speed
- 41 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- SNCF TER
- Countries
- France, MC, Italy
- In service since
- 1872
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Riviera on rails: Nice, Villefranche, Monaco’s covered station, Menton lemon groves and over the border to Ventimiglia — forty minutes of Mediterranean out the right-hand window.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1057560 — 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 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of TER86007 (Zug-Nr. 86007)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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