Scenic route
Pau–Bedous railway
Pau → Bedous · France
From Pau by Oloron-Sainte-Marie up the Aspe valley into the Pyrenees to Bedous, the first stretch of the old line to Canfranc and Spain; trains reached Bedous in 1914, stopped in 1980 and came back on 26 June 2016.
- Distance
- 59 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 5 min
- Average speed
- 54 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmPau +1
- 1 kmCroix-du-Prince
- 8 kmGan
- 20 kmBuzy-en-Béarn
- 24 kmOgeu-les-Bains
- 35 kmOloron-Sainte-Marie
- 37 kmBidos
- 44 kmLurbe Saint-Christau
- 53 kmSarrance
- 59 kmBedous
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4762748: 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 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of TER 67419
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Pau–Bedous railway?
The Pau–Bedous railway runs 59 km from Pau to Bedous.
How long does the Pau–Bedous railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 5 min for the 59 km. That is an average of 54 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Pau–Bedous railway?
SNCF, with TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
How old is the Pau–Bedous railway?
The line has been in service since 1914. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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