Classic route
Clermont–Lyon
Clermont-Ferrand → Lyon · France
- Distance
- 219 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 91 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- SNCF TER
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1866
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Across the top of the Massif Central: volcano country out of Clermont, the Gorges over Roanne, then down into the Rhône at Lyon.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4515448 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 26 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of K2
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