High-speed route
TGV inOui
Paris → Lille · France
TGV inOui in pictures
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- Distance
- 225 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 2 min
- Average speed
- 218 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- TGV Réseau
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1993
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The dead-straight LGV Nord links Paris to Lille in just 62 minutes at 300 km/h, France’s fastest big-city hop.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5926414 — 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line passes within 451 m of every station TGV 7265 calls at (the planner's own shape was too coarse to measure a line against)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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