High-speed route
TGV inOui Paris–Lille
Paris → Lille · France
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The dead-straight LGV Nord links Paris to Lille in just 62 minutes at 300 km/h, France’s fastest big-city hop.
Stations
- 0 kmParis Gare du Nord
- 179 kmArras
- 236 kmLille-Flandres
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
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
- 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
- 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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