High-speed route
TGV Paris–Luxembourg
Paris → Luxembourg · France · Luxembourg
TGV Paris–Luxembourg in pictures
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- Distance
- 385 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 178 km/h
- Top speed
- 320 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs
- Train
- TGV inOui
- Countries
- France, Luxembourg
- In service since
- 2007
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The only direct rail link between the two capitals: 320 km/h across Champagne on the LGV Est, then down the Moselle past Metz’s golden cathedral.
How this line was checked
- The 375 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 8536526 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SNCF Connect — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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