Lyon City Guide - Getting There By Rail

The city has two main railways stations - Lyon Part-Dieu, place Beraudier, and Lyon Perrache, 10 cours de Verdun. Both stations have a cafe, snack bar, ATM, newsagent, tourist information office and a bus link to Lyon-St-Exupéry Airport.

SNCF (tel: 0805 700 805 or 903 635, in France only; website: www.sncf.fr) is the national rail service provider. The French TGV network is highly developed, branching out in three main directions - southeast (Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean), Atlantic and north.

National rail enquiries should be directed to the SNCF Ligne Vocale hotline (tel: 903 635), which provides timetable and service information for all domestic and cross-border rail services. The line is available 24 hours daily.

Rail services: A high-speed TGV (Train Grande Vitesse) leaves Lyon for Paris almost every half an hour (journey time - 2 hours), providing 30 services between the cities per day. Direct connections are also available to and from Geneva (journey time - 2 hours), Turin (journey time - 4 hours), Montpellier (journey time - 2 hours), Marseille (journey time - 2 hours) and Nantes (journey time - 7 hours).