High-speed route
TGV / ICE
Paris → Frankfurt · France · Germany
TGV / ICE in pictures
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- Distance
- 573 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 49 min
- Average speed
- 150 km/h
- Top speed
- 320 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF · Deutsche Bahn
- Train
- TGV Euroduplex · ICE 3
- Countries
- France, Germany
- In service since
- 2007
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A Franco-German alliance since 2007: 320 km/h on the LGV Est to Lorraine, then the Saar and Rhine-Main into Frankfurt, TGV and ICE sharing the run.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2078076 — 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 8 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of TGV 9551
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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