High-speed route
TGV Lyria
Paris → Zürich · France · Switzerland
TGV Lyria in pictures
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- Distance
- 590 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 03 min
- Average speed
- 146 km/h
- Top speed
- 320 km/h
- Operator
- Lyria (SNCF · SBB)
- Train
- Euroduplex
- Countries
- France, Switzerland
- In service since
- 2011
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Via the LGV Rhin-Rhône to the Swiss border at Basel, then along the Aare to Zürich. Paris to Switzerland’s largest city in almost exactly four hours.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3310799 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 31 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 13 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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