TGV Lyria Paris–Geneva

Lyria’s Geneva run starts as a standard 320 km/h Burgundy sprint and ends as a Jura mountain railway: the reopened Haut-Bugey line, rebuilt for TGVs in 2010, climbing through gorges and limestone shelf country to shortcut the old route. The Rhône is joined at Bellegarde, squeezed through the Fort l’Écluse defile where the river breaks the Jura wall, and then the basin opens: vineyards, the lake, and the Jet d’Eau pluming beyond Geneva’s platforms. Just over three hours, Swiss dining car included.

Stations

1. 0 kmParis Gare de Lyon +8
2. 403 kmBourg-en-Bresse +1
3. 436 kmNurieux
4. 467 kmBellegarde
5. 500 kmGenève-Cornavin +2

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for a train that runs this route end to end, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• Burgundy at full line speed
• Bresse farmland
• Haut-Bugey gorges
• Fort l’Écluse defile
• Lake Geneva basin arrival

How this line was checked

• The 63 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1254808 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 12 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of TGV 9763
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

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