TGV inOui Paris–Lyon

Modern European high speed began on this corridor: the LGV Sud-Est opened in September 1981, its orange TGVs proving that city-centre rail could beat the airlines and rewriting the continent’s transport map. The line remains the busiest in France (Burgundy escarpments, Mâconnais vineyards and the Beaujolais hills compressed into under two hours), so saturated that a new signalling system is being fitted to squeeze in more paths. Lyon Part-Dieu, Europe’s busiest through station, absorbs the flow.

Stations

1. 0 kmGare de Lyon +8
2. 304 kmLe Creusot TGV (Montceau - Montchanin) +1
3. 364 kmMâcon-Loché-TGV +1
4. 428 kmLyon Part-Dieu +4

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for a train that runs this route end to end, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. 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.

Along the way

• Sénart forest exit from Paris
• Burgundy escarpments
• Mâconnais vineyards
• Beaujolais hills to the west
• Part-Dieu towers

How this line was checked

• The 388 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 270176 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 6 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of TGV 6641
• 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

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