High-speed route
TGV Rhin-Rhône
Lyon → Strasbourg · France
TGV Rhin-Rhône in pictures
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- Distance
- 490 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 131 km/h
- Top speed
- 320 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs
- Train
- TGV inOui
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 2011
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
France’s only province-to-province LGV: Burgundy to Alsace without a glance at Paris, Dijon and Belfort on the way to the cathedral city.
How this line was checked
- The 137 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 146142 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 21 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IC 9583
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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