Classic route
Intercités
Nantes → Lyon · France
- Distance
- 660 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 7 h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs
- Train
- Intercités
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1870
Page last updated 2026-07-19 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
France’s great west–east diagonal, no Paris required: the Loire at Angers and Tours, Bourges’ cathedral, then Roanne and the Lyon hills.
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