High-speed route
TGV inOui
Paris → Marseille · France
TGV inOui in pictures
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- Distance
- 750 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 05 min
- Average speed
- 243 km/h
- Top speed
- 320 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs
- Train
- TGV Duplex
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1981
- Runs
- roughly hourly, more at peak (16+ direct daily)
- Riders per year
- ≈ 3.5M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
France’s original 1981 LGV forms the first leg; today the TGV holds 320 km/h nearly all the way to the Mediterranean.
This is the corridor where France learned its high-speed craft: the original Ligne à Grande Vitesse out of Paris, later extended down the Rhône to reach the sea in 2001. Burgundy escarpments, cooling towers and hilltop villages flicker past until the garrigue turns silver with olives and the Étang de Berre announces the south. Arrival is pure theatre: Saint-Charles station sits on a bluff, its monumental staircase spilling straight into Marseille’s boisterous streets.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3265872 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 36 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 12 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of FR 6105
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Burgundy escarpments at full speed
- Rhône Valley sprint past Valence
- Avignon and the Provençal garrigue
- Étang de Berre lagoon
- Saint-Charles station’s grand staircase
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