List of railway lines in France

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

High speed lines (LGV, managed by the RFF)

• In Use
  • LGV Sud-Est
  • LGV Atlantique
  • LGV Nord
  • LGV Interconnexion Est
  • LGV Rhône-Alpes
  • LGV Méditerranée
  • LGV Est
  • LGV Perpignan–Figueres
  • LGV Rhin-Rhône
• In Construction
  • LGV Est phase 2
• Projected
  • LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire
  • LGV Sud Europe Atlantique
  • LGV Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
  • LGV Bordeaux–Toulouse
  • Lyon Turin Ferroviaire
  • LGV Poitiers–Limoges
• Proposed
  • Transversale Alpes Auvergne Atlantique
  • LGV Massif Central
  • LGV Normandie
  • LGV des Estuaires
  • LGV Picardie

Interregional lines (RFF)

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 Oloron-Sainte-Marie)
• 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)

Other interregional lines

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
• 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

• 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

Abandoned:

• La Chapelle-Anthenaise–Flers

Regional lines (RFF)

Alsace

• Colmar–Metzeral
• Lutterbach–Kruth (via Cernay)
• Sélestat–Saverne (abandoned beyond Molsheim)
• Strasbourg–Lauterbourg
• Vendenheim–Wissembourg

Abandoned:

• 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
• 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)
• Le Palais–Eygurande-Merlines (via Ussel)
• Tulle–Meymac
• Vieilleville–Bourganeuf (freight only)

Lorraine

• Arches–Saint-Dié
• 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

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
• Lens–Ostricourt
• Lille–Fontinettes railway (Lille–Calais via Armentières and Saint-Omer)
• Lourches–Valenciennes
• Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise–Étaples
• Somain–Halluin (via Orchies, Ascq and Tourcoing, partly abandoned)

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

Lines not belonging to the National network

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

Abandoned lines

Western France

• Réseau Breton
  • Réseau Guerlédan
• Network of the Chemin de Fer du Finistère
• Network of the Chemins de Fer Armoricains
• Network of the Chemin de Fer des Côtes-du-Nord
• Network of the Tramways d'Ille et Vilaine
• Network of the Chemins de Fer du Morbihan
• Network of the Tramways Électrique du Finistère

Northern France

• Network of the Réseau des Bains de Mer.
• Network of the Réseau Albert.
• Network of the Chemin de Fer du Cambrésis

See also

• Réseau Ferré de France
• Réseau Express Régional
• SNCF