TGV inOui Paris–Barcelona

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.

Stations

1. 0 kmGare de Lyon +8
2. 525 kmValence TGV Sud Rhône-Alpes +2
3. 674 kmNîmes Pont du Gard
4. 729 kmMontpellier-Sud-de-France
5. 801 kmBéziers +2
6. 827 kmNarbonne +1
7. 891 kmPerpignan +2
8. 945 kmFigueres Vilafant
9. 979 kmGirona +1
10. 1,073 kmBarcelona - Sants +8

The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (ÖBB Scotty, the TGV 9713 on 29 October 2026), in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Other runs of the train may skip some of them, and the timetable can change. 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

• Rhône valley at speed
• Nîmes & Montpellier
• Étang de Thau lagoons
• Corbières vineyards
• Perthus tunnel under the Pyrenees
• Girona’s old quarter

How this line was checked

• The 1018 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11799467 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 46 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 14 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of TGV 9713
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

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