High-speed route
TGV inOui
Paris → Rennes · France
TGV inOui in pictures
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- Distance
- 350 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 247 km/h
- Top speed
- 320 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- TGV Atlantique
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1989
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The 2017 Bretagne–Pays de la Loire high-speed line cut Paris–Rennes to 1 h 25 min, sending TGVs racing across Brittany at 320 km/h.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5936703 — 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 4 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
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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