Scenic route
Ligne des Pyrénées
Toulouse → Latour-de-Carol · France
Four daily trains climb past Foix’s castle and Ax-les-Thermes to Latour-de-Carol, where three different rail gauges meet.
- Distance
- 155 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 58 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmToulouse-Matabiau +4
- 4 kmToulouse-Saint-Agne
- 12 kmPortet Saint-Simon
- 17 kmPins-Justaret
- 23 kmVenerque-Le-Vernet
- 40 kmCintegabelle
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- 48 kmSaverdun
- 64 kmPamiers
- 73 kmVarilhes
- 77 kmSaint-Jean-de-Verges
- 82 kmFoix
- 98 kmTarascon-sur-Ariège
- 108 kmLes Cabannes
- 115 kmLuzenac-Garanou
- 123 kmAx-les-Thermes
- 133 kmMérens-les-Vals
- 144 kmAndorre - L'Hospitalet
- 150 kmPorté-Puymorens
- 163 kmLatour-de-Carol - Enveitg +1
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, 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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4740728: 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of TER 87147
- 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
How long is the Ligne des Pyrénées?
The Ligne des Pyrénées runs 155 km from Toulouse to Latour-de-Carol.
How long does the Ligne des Pyrénées take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 2 h 40 min for the 155 km. That is an average of 58 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 100 km/h.
Who runs the Ligne des Pyrénées?
SNCF TER Occitanie.
How old is the Ligne des Pyrénées?
The line has been in service since 1929. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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