Classic route
Saintes–Royan line
Saintes → Royan · France
- Distance
- 37 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 30 min
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1875
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Half an hour down the Seudre country from Saintes to the Atlantic resort of Royan, a branch open since 1875.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6312644 — 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 2 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of TER86433 (Zug-Nr. 86433)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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