High-speed route
TGV inOui Paris–Lille
Paris → Lille · France
The dead-straight LGV Nord links Paris to Lille in just 62 minutes at 300 km/h, France’s fastest big-city hop.
- Distance
- 225 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 2 min
- Average speed
- 218 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmParis Gare du Nord +4
- 225 kmLille-Flandres +1
The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (ÖBB Scotty, the TGV 7007 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.
How this line was checked
- The 214 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 5926414 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 29 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of TGV 7007
- 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
How long is the TGV inOui?
The TGV inOui runs 225 km from Paris to Lille.
How long does the TGV inOui take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 2 min for the 225 km. That is an average of 218 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 300 km/h.
Who runs the TGV inOui?
SNCF, with TGV Réseau.
How old is the TGV inOui?
The line has been in service since 1993. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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