Classic route
Caen–Rennes
Caen → Rennes · France
Caen–Rennes in pictures
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- Distance
- 273 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 80 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- SNCF TER
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1879
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The western way round: Saint-Lô, the Vire bocage, a glimpse of Mont-Saint-Michel country at Dol, then Rennes.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2340987 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 29 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.1% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 9 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of TER85282 (Zug-Nr. 85282)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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