Classic route
Poitiers–La Rochelle railway
Poitiers → La Rochelle · France
- Distance
- 135 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 29 min
- Average speed
- 91 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs ↗
- Train
- TGV inOui
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1857
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Paris TGVs peel off at Poitiers and finish on this line, opened to Niort in 1856 and to La Rochelle the year after: ninety minutes across the Poitou plain to the Atlantic.
How this line was checked
- The 78 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 9086523 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- 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
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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