Classic route

Saint-Étienne–Lyon railway

Saint-Étienne → Lyon · France

Saint-Étienne–Lyon railway in pictures

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Distance

57 km

Fastest time

≈ 57 min

Average speed

60 km/h

Operator

SNCF

Train

TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Countries

France

In service since

1830

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Continental Europe's first railway line, built by Marc and Camille Seguin between 1828 and 1833 to bring Loire coal down to the Rhône.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1646928 — 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 5 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of TER88625 (Zug-Nr. 88625)
• Wikipedia has an article for this line

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