High-speed route
TGV inOui
Paris → Nice · France
- Distance
- 971 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h 42 min
- Average speed
- 170 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- TGV Duplex
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 2001
- Runs
- ≈ 5× daily direct
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
France’s longest domestic TGV run: 300 km/h to Marseille, then the classic Riviera line along the Mediterranean to Nice.
The Riviera TGV is two railways in one ticket: three hours of 300 km/h down the Rhône on the 2001 Méditerranée line, then a two-hour Mediterranean crawl where nobody checks a watch. Beyond Toulon the track finds the sea and keeps it: the red porphyry coves of the Esterel between Saint-Raphaël and Cannes, yacht harbours at Antibes, and the final curve around the Baie des Anges into Nice-Ville. The last 220 km take as long as the first 750, and are the reason to book a left-side seat.
How this line was checked
- The 827 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 5932020 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 33 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 14 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- 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
Along the way
- Rhône valley at 300 km/h
- Marseille bypass over the garrigue
- Toulon harbour
- Esterel red-rock corniche
- Cannes and Antibes bays
- Baie des Anges finale
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