High-speed route
TGV inOui
Paris → Bordeaux · France
TGV inOui in pictures
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- Distance
- 537 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 04 min
- Average speed
- 260 km/h
- Top speed
- 320 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs
- Train
- TGV Duplex
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 2017
- Runs
- hourly or better
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The LGV Sud Europe Atlantique put Bordeaux’s vineyards two hours from Paris, and emptied the air shuttle.
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.
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
- 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
- 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
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