Classic route
Nomad Krono+
Paris → Cherbourg · France
Nomad Krono+ in pictures
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- Distance
- 364 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 115 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- Région Normandie · SNCF
- Train
- Omneo Premium
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1858
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Normandy’s trunk from Saint-Lazare: Lisieux, Caen and Bayeux of the Tapestry, out along the Cotentin to the great naval harbour of Cherbourg.
How this line was checked
- The 369 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 8014437 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 32 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 11 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
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