Scenic route
Marseille–Briançon
Marseille → Briançon · France
Marseille–Briançon in pictures
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- Distance
- 299 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 63 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- SNCF TER
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1884
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Durance valley all the way up: Aix, Sisteron’s citadel, Gap, Embrun above the lake, and the highest town in France at the buffer stops.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 974478 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 43 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 11 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of TER17402 (Zug-Nr. 17402)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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