List of railway lines in France



This is a list of railway lines in France, belonging either to the national network (SNCF Réseau) or to private owners.

High speed lines (LGV, managed by the SNCF)

 * Under Construction
 * Contournement Nîmes – Montpellier
 * Turin–Lyon high-speed railway
 * Projected
 * LGV Bordeaux–Toulouse
 * LGV Poitiers–Limoges
 * LGV Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
 * Proposed
 * Transversale Alpes Auvergne Atlantique
 * LGV Montpellier–Perpignan
 * LGV Normandie
 * LGV Picardie

Radial lines
Centered on Paris, from the north and clockwise:
 * Paris–Lille railway
 * Creil–Jeumont railway (toward Brussels)
 * La Plaine–Hirson (via Soissons and Laon)
 * Paris–Strasbourg railway (via Épernay and Nancy)
 * Paris–Mulhouse railway (via Troyes and Vesoul)
 * Paris–Marseille railway (via Dijon and Lyon)
 * Moret–Lyon railway (via Nevers, Roanne and Saint-Étienne)
 * Orléans–Montauban railway (via Limoges)
 * Paris–Bordeaux railway (via Orléans and Tours)
 * Paris–Brest railway (via Le Mans and Rennes)
 * Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg railway (via Caen)
 * Paris–Le Havre railway (via Rouen)
 * Épinay-Villetaneuse–Le Tréport-Mers railway (via Persan-Beaumont and Beauvais)

International lines

 * Fives–Mouscron railway (Belgium, via Roubaix)
 * Fives–Tournai railway (Belgium, via Baisieux)
 * Douai–Quiévrain (Belgium, via Valenciennes)
 * Hautmont–Mons railway (Belgium, via Feignies)
 * Metz–Luxembourg railway (via Zoufftgen)
 * Metz–Überherrn (Germany, freight only, abandoned between Metz and Anzeling)
 * Rémilly–Saarbrücken railway (Germany)
 * Appenweier–Strasbourg railway (Germany, via Kehl)
 * Mulhouse–Müllheim (Germany)
 * Strasbourg–Basel railway (Switzerland, via Mulhouse)
 * Besançon–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches (Switzerland, via Morteau)
 * Frasne–Les Verrières (Switzerland, via Pontarlier)
 * Dijon–Vallorbe (Switzerland, via Dole and Frasne)
 * Lyon–Geneva railway (Switzerland, via Ambérieu and Bellegarde)
 * Annemasse–Geneva railway (Switzerland, partly under construction)
 * Longeray-Léaz–Le Bouveret (Switzerland, via Annemasse and Évian)
 * Turin–Modane railway (Italy, via Fréjus Rail Tunnel)
 * Cuneo–Ventimiglia (Italy, via Tende and Breil-sur-Roya)
 * Marseille–Ventimiglia railway (Italy, via Toulon and Nice)
 * Narbonne–Portbou railway (Spain)
 * Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway (Spain, via Pamiers and Foix)
 * Pau–Canfranc railway (abandoned beyond Bedous)
 * Bordeaux–Irun railway (Spain, via Dax and Bayonne)

Abandoned:
 * Mont Cenis Pass Railway (Italy, via the Mont Cenis Pass prior to the Fréjus Rail Tunnel)

Northern France

 * Amagne-Lucquy–Revigny (freight only, abandoned beyond Challerange)
 * Amiens–Rouen railway
 * Fives–Hirson (via Valenciennes and Aulnoye)
 * Hirson–Amagne-Lucquy (abandoned beyond Liart)
 * Longueau–Boulogne railway
 * Mohon–Thionville
 * Pierrelaye–Creil
 * Reims–Laon railway
 * Saint-Denis–Dieppe railway (abandoned beyond Gisors)
 * Saint-Just-en-Chaussée–Douai (via Montdidier, Péronne and Cambrai, partly abandoned)
 * Soissons–Givet (via Reims and Charleville-Mézières, Soissons-Bazoches abandoned)
 * Trilport–Bazoches

Eastern France

 * Andelot-en-Montagne–La Cluse (via Champagnole, Saint-Claude and Oyonnax)
 * Berthelming–Sarreguemines
 * Blainville-Damelevières–Lure (via Épinal)
 * Bologne–Pagny-sur-Meuse (via Neufchâteau, partly abandoned)
 * Culmont-Chalindrey–Toul (via Neufchâteau)
 * Coolus–Sens (via Troyes, freight only, partly abandoned)
 * Le Coteau–Montchanin (via Paray-le-Monial, partly abandoned)
 * Dijon–Saint-Amour (via Louhans)
 * Gretz-Armainvilliers–Sézanne (abandoned beyond La Ferté-Gaucher)
 * Haguenau–Hargarten-Falck (partly abandoned)
 * Is-sur-Tille–Culmont-Chalindrey
 * Longueville–Esternay (abandoned beyond Villiers-Saint-Georges)
 * Mâcon–Ambérieu (via Bourg-en-Bresse)
 * Mommenheim–Sarreguemines
 * Mouchard–Bourg-en-Bresse (via Lons-le-Saunier)
 * Moulins–Mâcon (abandoned beyond Paray-le-Monial)
 * Paray-le-Monial–Givors (via Lozanne and Tassin)
 * Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple–Hagondange (via Sainte-Menehould and Verdun)
 * Strasbourg–Saint-Dié (via Molsheim)
 * Villeneuve-Saint-Georges–Montargis (abandoned beyond Malesherbes)

Abandoned:
 * Jessains–Sorcy
 * Lutzelbourg–Drulingen
 * Mézy–Romilly-sur-Seine
 * Montargis–Sens
 * Saint-Julien (Troyes)–Saint-Florentin-Vergigny

Southern France

 * Agen–Vic-en-Bigorre railway (freight only, abandoned beyond Auch)
 * Béziers-Neussargues (ligne des Causses, via Millau)
 * Bordeaux–Sète railway (via Montauban, Toulouse and Narbonne)
 * Bourges–Miécaze (abandoned beyond Montluçon)
 * Brive-la-Gaillarde–Toulouse railway (via Figeac and Gaillac)
 * Clermont-Ferrand–Saint-Just-sur-Loire
 * Coutras–Tulle (via Périgueux)
 * Eygurande-Merlines–Clermont-Ferrand
 * Givors–Grezan (Grezan = Nîmes, right Rhône bank)
 * Limoges–Périgueux
 * Livron–Aspres-sur-Buëch
 * Lyon–Marseille (via Grenoble and Aix-en-Provence)
 * Montluçon–Saint-Sulpice-Laurière (via Guéret)
 * Morcenx–Bagnères-de-Bigorre (via Mont-de-Marsan and Tarbes)
 * Port-Sainte-Marie–Riscle (freight only, abandoned beyond Condom)
 * Saint-Georges-d'Aurac–Saint-Étienne (via Le Puy en Velay)
 * Saint-Germain-des-Fossés–Nîmes (Ligne des Cévennes, via Gannat, Clermont-Ferrand and Alès)
 * Souillac–Viescamp-sous-Jallès
 * Tarascon–Sète (via Nîmes and Montpellier)
 * Toulouse–Bayonne railway (via Pau)

Western France
Abandoned:
 * Brétigny–La Membrolle-sur-Choisille (via Dourdan and Vendôme)
 * Chartres–Bordeaux (via Saumur, Niort and Saintes, partly abandoned)
 * Châteaubriant–Rennes
 * Évreux–Quetteville (via Pont-Audemer, freight only, abandoned between Évreux and Glos-Montfort)
 * Limoges-Bénédictins–Angoulême
 * Lison–Lamballe railway (via Saint-Lô, Dol-de-Bretagne and Dinan)
 * Le Mans–Angers railway
 * Le Mans–Mézidon (via Alençon)
 * Mignaloux-Nouaillé–Bersac (abandoned beyond Le Dorat)
 * Nantes–Saintes (via La Rochelle)
 * Paris–Chartres (via Gallardon, abandoned between Paris and Gallardon)
 * Rennes–Redon railway
 * Les Sables-d'Olonne–Tours (via Bressuire and Chinon, partly abandoned)
 * Saint-Benoît–Le Blanc (abandoned beyond Jardres)
 * Saint-Cyr–Surdon (part of Paris–Granville connection)
 * Savenay–Landerneau railway (via Redon, Vannes and Quimper)
 * Tours–Le Mans railway
 * Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway
 * La Chapelle-Anthenaise–Flers

Alsace
Abandoned:
 * Colmar–Metzeral
 * Lutterbach–Kruth (via Cernay)
 * Sélestat–Saverne (abandoned beyond Molsheim)
 * Strasbourg–Lauterbourg
 * Vendenheim–Wissembourg
 * Bouxwiller–Ingwiller
 * Steinbourg–Obermodern

Aquitaine

 * Bayonne–Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port railway
 * Dax–Mont-de-Marsan (freight only, partly abandoned)
 * Lamothe–Arcachon
 * Libourne–Le Buisson (via Bergerac)
 * Niversac–Agen
 * Puyoô–Dax
 * Ravezies–Pointe-de-Grave
 * Saint-Sever–Hagetmau
 * Siorac-en-Périgord–Cazoulès (abandoned beyond Sarlat-la-Canéda)

Abandoned:
 * Marmande–Mont-de-Marsan
 * Nérac–Mont-de-Marsan
 * Penne-d'Agenais–Tonneins

Auvergne

 * Commentry–Gannat
 * Montluçon–Moulins (abandoned beyond Commentry)
 * Bort-les-Orgues–Neussargues (partly abandoned)
 * La Ferté-Hauterive–Gannat (partly abandoned)
 * Figeac–Arvant (via Aurillac)
 * Laqueuille–Le Mont-Dore
 * Saint-Germain-des-Fossés–Darsac (partly abandoned)
 * Souillac–Viescamp-sous-Jallès (abandoned between Souillac and Saint-Denis-près-Martel)
 * Vichy–Riom

Abandoned:
 * Lapeyrouse–Volvic

Basse-Normandie

 * Argentan–Granville (via Flers)
 * Lisieux–Trouville-Deauville
 * Mézidon–Trouville-Deauville railway (abandoned between Mézidon and Dives-Cabourg)
 * Pont-l'Évêque–Honfleur (freight only, abandoned between Pont-l'Évêque and Quetteville)
 * Saint-Lô–Guilberville (freight only, abandoned beyond Condé-sur-Vire)

Bourgogne

 * Clamecy–Nevers (freight only, partly abandoned)
 * Cravant-Bazarnes–Dracy-St-Loup (via Avallon and Saulieu)
 * Clamecy–Gilly-sur-Loire (abandoned beyond Cercy-la-Tour)
 * Dijon–Is-sur-Tille
 * Étang–Santenay (via Autun, abandoned beyond Dracy-Saint-Loup)
 * Laroche–Migennes–Cosne (via Auxerre and Clamecy, abandoned beyond Entrains)
 * Maison-Dieu–Les Laumes (freight only, abandoned Maison-Dieu and Époisses)
 * Nevers–Chagny (via Le Creusot)
 * Tamnay-Châtillon–Château-Chinon (freight only)

Bretagne

 * Auray–Quiberon railway
 * Auray–Pontivy (freight only)
 * Guingamp–Carhaix railway
 * Guingamp–Paimpol railway
 * Morlaix–Roscoff
 * Plouaret–Lannion railway
 * Quimper–Pont-l'Abbé (freight only, abandoned beyond Pluguffan)
 * Rennes–Saint-Malo railway
 * Rosporden–Concarneau (freight only, abandoned beyond Coat-Conq)
 * Saint-Brieuc–Pontivy (freight only, abandoned beyond Loudéac)

Abandoned:
 * Miniac-Morvan–La Gouesnière-Cancale-St-Méloir
 * Ploërmel–La Brohinière
 * Saint-Brieuc–Le Légué
 * Vitré–Pontorson

Centre

 * Auxy-Juranville–Bourges (freight only, abandoned between Auxy-Juranville and Les Bordes, and beyond Argent-sur-Sauldre)
 * Le Blanc–Argent-sur-Sauldre railway (metric railway, abandoned between Le Blanc and Buzançais, and beyond Salbris)
 * Chartres–Dreux (freight only)
 * Chartres–Orléans (freight only)
 * Gien–Argent (freight only, abandoned beyond Poilly-lez-Gien)
 * Orléans–Gien (freight only, abandoned beyond Les Bordes)
 * Pont-de-Braye–Blois (freight only, partly abandoned)
 * Tours–Châteauroux (freight only beyond Loches)
 * Vierzon–Saincaize (via Bourges)
 * Vierzon–Saint-Pierre-des-Corps
 * Villefranche-sur-Cher–Blois (freight only, abandoned beyond Romorantin-Lanthenay)

Abandoned:
 * Orléans–Montargis
 * Saint-Germain-du-Puy–Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire

Champagne-Ardenne

 * Blesme-Haussignémont–Chaumont (via Saint-Dizier)
 * Châlons-en-Champagne–Reims
 * Charleville–Hirson (abandoned beyond Tournes)
 * Épernay–Reims
 * Liart–Tournes
 * Oiry–Romilly-sur-Seine (freight only, abandoned beyond Sézanne)

Abandoned:
 * Fère-Champenoise–Vitry-le-François
 * Saint-Dizier–Doulevant-le-Château

Franche-Comté

 * Dole–Belfort (via Besançon)
 * Franois–Arc-et-Senans (part of connection Besançon–Bourg-en-Bresse)
 * Montbozon–Lure (freight only, abandoned between Montbozon and Villersexel)
 * Voujeaucourt–Saint-Hippolyte (freight only, abandoned beyond Pont-de-Roide)

Abandoned:
 * Besançon–Vesoul

Haute-Normandie

 * Bréauté-Beuzeville–Fécamp
 * Bréauté-Beuzeville–Gravenchon–Port-Jérôme (freight only)
 * Le Havre-Graville–Tourville-les-Ifs (abandoned beyond Rolleville)
 * Malaunay–Dieppe
 * Montérolier-Buchy–Motteville (freight only)
 * Motteville–Saint-Valéry-en-Caux
 * Rouxmesnil–Eu (freight only, abandoned beyond Bailly-en-Rivière)
 * Serquigny–Oissel

Abandoned:
 * Montérolier-Buchy–Saint-Saëns railway

Île-de-France

 * Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture
 * Grande Ceinture line
 * Achères–Pontoise
 * Aulnay-sous-Bois–Aéroport Charles de Gaulle (Ligne de Roissy)
 * Corbeil-Essonnes–Montereau
 * Ermont-Eaubonne–Valmondois
 * Esbly–Crécy-la-Chapelle
 * Flamboin-Gouaix–Montereau (freight only)
 * Grigny–Corbeil-Essonnes
 * Montsoult-Maffliers–Luzarches
 * Plaisir-Grignon–Épône-Mézières
 * Paris–Versailles-Rive-Gauche (Ligne des Invalides)
 * Paris-Saint-Lazare–Ermont-Eaubonne
 * Paris–Mantes-Station (via Conflans-Sainte-Honorine)
 * Paris–Versailles-Rive-Droite (via Saint-Cloud)
 * Paris–Saint-Germain-en-Laye
 * La Plaine–Ermont-Eaubonne
 * Saint-Cloud–Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche

Languedoc-Roussillon

 * Bessèges–Robiac
 * Carcassonne–Rivesaltes (via Limoux, abandoned between Quillan and Axat)
 * Elne–Arles-sur-Tech (freight only, abandoned beyond Le Boulou)
 * Le Monastier–La Bastide-Saint-Laurent-les-Bains (via Mende)
 * Narbonne–Bize (freight only)
 * Perpignan–Villefranche-de-Conflent
 * Saint-Césaire–Le Grau-du-Roi
 * Le Teil–Alès (abandoned between Le Teil and Robiac)
 * Villefranche-de-Conflent–Latour-de-Carol (Ligne de Cerdagne, metre gauge railway)

Abandoned:
 * Colombiers–Quarante-Cruzy
 * Paulhan–Montpellier

Limousin

 * Busseau-sur-Creuse–Ussel (via Aubusson, abandoned between Felletin and La Courtine)
 * Le Dorat–Limoges
 * Nexon–Brive-la-Gaillarde (via Saint-Yrieix)Not in use between St Yrieix and Objat
 * Le Palais–Eygurande-Merlines (via Ussel)
 * Tulle–Meymac
 * Vieilleville–Bourganeuf (freight only)

Lorraine

 * Arches–Saint-Dié railway
 * Épinal–Bussang (abandoned beyond Remiremont)
 * Frouard–Novéant
 * Jarville-la-Malgrange–Mirecourt
 * Lérouville–Metz
 * Longuyon–Mont-Saint-Martin (via Longwy)
 * Longuyon–Pagny-sur-Moselle
 * Lunéville–Saint-Dié
 * Merrey–Hymont-Mattaincourt (via Vittel)
 * Neufchâteau–Épinal (abandoned between Gironcourt and Mirecourt, and beyond Hymont)
 * Réding–Metz
 * Thionville–Anzeling
 * Thionville–Apach
 * Toul–Rosières-aux-Salines (freight only, abandoned between Toul and Chaligny)

Abandoned:
 * Bettelainville–Waldwisse
 * Fontoy–Audun-le-Tiche

Midi-Pyrénées

 * Capdenac–Rodez
 * Castelnaudary–Rodez (via Castres and Albi, abandoned between Revel and La Crémade, and between Castres and Ranteil)
 * Castelsarrasin–Beaumont-de-Lomagne (freight only)
 * Castres–Bédarieux (abandoned beyond Mazamet)
 * Lannemezan–Arreau-Cadéac (freight only)
 * Montauban–La Crémade (abandoned between Montauban and Saint-Sulpice)
 * Montréjeau–Luchon
 * Sévérac-le-Château–Rodez
 * Tessonnières–Albi
 * Toulouse–Auch
 * Tournemire-Roquefort - Le Vigan

Nord-Pas-de-Calais

 * Arras–Dunkirk railway
 * Arras–Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise
 * Boulogne–Calais railway
 * Busigny–Somain (via Cambrai)
 * Coudekerque-Branche–Fontinettes railway (Dunkerque–Calais)
 * Ferrière-la-Grande–Cousolre (freight only)
 * Fives–Abbeville (via Béthune, abandoned beyond Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise)
 * La Madeleine–Comines-France
 * Lens–Don - Sainghin railway
 * Lens–Ostricourt
 * Lille–Fontinettes railway (Lille–Calais via Armentières and Saint-Omer)
 * Lourches–Valenciennes
 * Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise–Étaples

Pays de la Loire

 * Clisson–Cholet
 * Commequiers–St-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie
 * Nantes–La Roche-sur-Yon (via Sainte-Pazanne and Challans, abandoned beyond Commequiers)
 * La Possonnière–Niort (abandoned beyond Cholet)
 * Sainte-Pazanne–Pornic
 * Saint-Hilaire-de-Chaléons–Paimbœuf (freight only)
 * Saint-Nazaire–Le Croisic

Abandoned:
 * La Flèche–Vivy
 * Nantes–Châteaubriant

Picardie

 * Abbeville–Eu
 * Amiens–Laon (via Tergnier)
 * Creil–Beauvais
 * Ormoy-Villers–Boves (freight only between Ormoy-Villers and Ageux, abandoned between Ageux and Estrées-Saint-Denis)
 * Rochy-Condé–Soissons (via Clermont-de-l'Oise, Estrées-Saint-Denis and Compiègne, mostly abandoned)

Abandoned:
 * Beauvais-Amiens
 * Feuquières–Ponthoile
 * Saint-Omer-en-Chaussée–Vers

Poitou-Charentes

 * Beillant–Angoulême (via Cognac)
 * Saint-Benoît–La Rochelle (via Niort)
 * Saintes–Royan

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

 * Avignon–Miramas (via Cavaillon and Salon-de-Provence)
 * Cannes-la Bocca–Grasse
 * Carnoules–Gardanne (abandoned between Brignoles and Peynier)
 * Miramas–l'Estaque (via Martigues)
 * Nice–Breil-sur-Roya
 * La Pauline-Hyères–Les Salins-d'Hyères (abandoned beyond Hyères)
 * Rognac–Aix-en-Provence (freight only)
 * Veynes–Briançon (via Gap)

Abandoned:
 * Les Arcs–Draguignan
 * Marseille-Blancarde–Marseille-Prado
 * Saint-Auban–Digne

Rhône-Alpes

 * Aix-les-Bains-Le Revard–Annemasse (via Annecy and La Roche-sur-Foron)
 * Ligne du Haut-Bugey (Bourg-en-Bresse–Bellegarde)
 * Collonges-Fort-l'Écluse – Divonne-les-Bains (freight only, abandoned beyond Gex)
 * Le Coteau–Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or (Roanne-Lyon)
 * Culoz–Modane railway (via Chambéry)
 * Grenoble–Montmélian railway
 * Lyon-Croix-Rousse–Trévoux (partly abandoned)
 * Lyon-Saint-Clair–Bourg-en-Bresse
 * Lyon-Saint-Paul–Montbrison (abandoned beyond Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière)
 * La Roche-sur-Foron–Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet
 * Saint-André-le-Gaz–Chambéry
 * Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway (via Chamonix, metric railway)
 * Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny–Bourg-Saint-Maurice (Tarentaise)
 * Saint-Rambert-d'Albon–Rives (partly abandoned)
 * Valence–Moirans railway

Corsica

 * Chemins de fer de la Corse:
 * Bastia–Ajaccio
 * Ponte-Leccia–Calvi
 * Calvi-L'Île-Rousse

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

 * Nice–Digne

Lines of the RATP

 * Ligne de Sceaux (southern branch of the RER B)

Touristic lines

 * Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
 * Chemin de Fer de La Mure
 * Chemin de Fer du Blanc-Argent
 * Chemin de fer du Montenvers
 * Chemin de fer du Vivarais
 * Chemin de fer forestier d'Abreschville
 * Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre
 * Chemin de Fer Touristique du Tarn
 * Petit train d'Artouste
 * Petit train de la Rhune
 * Tramway du Cap-Ferret
 * Tramway du Mont-Blanc
 * Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury

Western France

 * Chemin de fer du Finistère
 * Chemin de fer des Côtes-du-Nord
 * Chemins de fer armoricains
 * Chemins de fer du Morbihan
 * Île de Ré
 * Réseau Breton
 * Réseau Guerlédan
 * Tramways d'Ille-et-Vilaine
 * Tramways électriques du Finistère

Northern France

 * Chemin de fer d'Anvin à Calais
 * Chemin de fer de Boulogne à Bonningues
 * Chemin de fer du Cambrésis
 * Chemins de fer d'Aire à Fruges et de Rimeux-Gournay à Berck
 * Réseau Albert
 * Réseau des Bains de Mer
 * Tramway à vapeur d'Ardres à Pont d'Ardres
 * Somain–Halluin railway (via Orchies, Ascq and Tourcoing)