Classic route
Niversac–Agen railway
Agen → Niversac · France
Niversac–Agen railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 161 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 36 min
- Average speed
- 45 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1863
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A slow country line opened in 1863: three and a half hours for 164 km from the Garonne at Agen up through the Périgord to the Périgueux junction at Niversac.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of TER86581 (Zug-Nr. 86581)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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