TGV inOui Paris–Bordeaux

Since the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique opened in July 2017, Bordeaux has sat two hours from Paris: close enough that the city’s riverfront boomed with Parisian arrivals. The route leaves Montparnasse, skims past Tours and the Loire, then runs 302 km of new line across the Poitou farmland with barely a curve worth slowing for. The finish is Saint-Jean station’s 1898 ironwork, a tram ride from the Cité du Vin and the Garonne quays.

Stations

1. 0 kmParis Montparnasse 3 - Vaugirard +2
2. 537 kmBordeaux-Saint-Jean +3

The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (ÖBB Scotty, the TGV 8531 on 12 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

• Loire valley edge at Tours
• Poitou-Charentes farmland at 320 km/h
• Angoulême’s hilltop old town
• Garonne approach
• Bordeaux Saint-Jean’s 1898 hall

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5928800: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 6 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of TGV 8531
• 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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