Classic route
Intercités
Bordeaux → Marseille · France
- Distance
- 651 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 6 h 50 min
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- BB 26000 + Corail
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1857
Page last updated 2026-07-18 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The great southern transversale, Atlantic to Mediterranean with no Paris detour: Garonne vineyards, Carcassonne’s citadel and the Sète lagoons on the slow way round to Marseille.
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