High-speed route
Ouigo
Paris → Lyon · France
Ouigo in pictures
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- Distance
- 427 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 57 min
- Average speed
- 219 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- TGV Duplex
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 2013
- Runs
- several daily each way
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
SNCF’s low-cost double-decker TGV, launched in 2013 with fares from €10, races Paris to Lyon at up to 300 km/h.
Ouigo was SNCF’s 2013 answer to the budget airlines: strip the TGV Duplex to 634 sea-blue seats, sell tickets from ten euros, and run the world’s first low-cost high-speed service down the original 1981 line to Lyon. The formula (luggage fees, no dining car, occasional suburban terminals) proved so effective it now carries a large share of the corridor and has been exported to Spain. The Burgundy scenery is identical to the full-fare train; only the legroom knows the difference.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3227018 — 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 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of FR 6647
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Marne-la-Vallée and Gare de Lyon departures
- LGV Sud-Est racing ground
- Burgundy and Mâconnais slopes
- Saône approach to Part-Dieu
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