High-speed route
TGV inOui
Paris → Barcelona · France · Spain
TGV inOui in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,073 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 39 min
- Average speed
- 161 km/h
- Top speed
- 320 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs
- Train
- TGV Euroduplex
- Countries
- France, Spain
- In service since
- 2013
- Runs
- 2–3× daily
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Paris to Barcelona in 6 h 39 min, diving under the Pyrenees through the 8.3 km Perthus tunnel at the Spanish border.
Direct TGVs have linked Paris and Barcelona since December 2013, when the Perpignan–Figueres high-speed link under the Perthus pass opened to through traffic. Euroduplex double-deckers leave Gare de Lyon and run the Rhône valley at full line speed, slow along the lagoons of the Languedoc coast, then dive beneath the Pyrenees to emerge at Figueres and Girona. Six and a half hours after the Seine, the train eases into Barcelona Sants.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11799467 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 46 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 16 m); the longest stretch away from it is 8.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SNCF Connect — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Rhône valley at speed
- Nîmes & Montpellier
- Étang de Thau lagoons
- Corbières vineyards
- Perthus tunnel under the Pyrenees
- Girona’s old quarter
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