Classic route
Toulouse–Bayonne railway
Bayonne → Toulouse · France
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Toulouse–Bayonne railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 318 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 28 min
- Average speed
- 92 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- Intercités
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1866
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Runs the whole width of the south-west along the foothills of the Pyrenees, opened in stages between 1861 and 1867 and still the direct way from the Atlantic to Toulouse.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1085896 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 34 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of IC 14142
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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