HIGH SPEED LINES IN THE WORLD Lines or sections of lines in which operation V > 250 km/h (*) (* there are some exceptions) Brussels – French Border 300* 1997 72 Leuven – Liège 300 2002 65 Liège – German Border 260 2008 36 Antwerp – Dutch border 300 2008 36 * homologated for 320 km/h LGV Paris Sud Est 300 1981 / 1983 418 LGV Atlantique 300 1989 / 1990 294 LGV Contournement Lyon 300 1992 / 1994 121 LGV Nord – Europe 300 1994 / 1996 346 LGV Interconnexion IDF 300 1994 / 1996 104 LGV Méditerranée 320 2001 257 (Figueres -) Frontière – Perpignan 300 2009 24 Haut-Bugey (amélioration LC) 2009 65 Contournement Nîmes – Montpellier 300 2012 70 LGV Dijon – Mulhouse 320 2012 140 LGV Sud Europe Atlantique S 2013 120 LGV Bretagne – Pays de la Loire 2013 188 LGV Est – Européenne (Second phase) 2014 / 2015 100 LGV Poitiers – Limoges 2015 115 LGV Sud Europe Atlantique N 2016 180 LGV Bordeaux – Toulouse 2016 230 LGV Rhin – Rhône Br Est (Second phase) 2015 / 2020 48 Interconnexion Sud IDF 2020 40 LGV Bordeaux – Espagne 2020 230 LGV Lyon – Turin 2020 150 LGV Montpellier – Perpignan 2022 150 LGV Rhin – Rhône Branche S 2022 100 LGV Rhin – Rhône Branche Ouest 2022 85 LGV Paris – Lyon bis 2025 430 Fulda – Würzburg 280 1988 90 Hannover – Fulda 280 1991 / 1994 248 Mannheim – Stuttgart 280 1985 / 1991 109 Hannover (Wolfsburg) – Berlin 250 1998 189 Köln – Frankfurt 300 2002 / 2004 197 Köln – Düren 250 2003 42 (Karlsruhe -) Rastatt – Offenburg 250 2004 44 Leipzig – Gröbers (- Erfurt) 250 2004 24 Hamburg – Berlin 230 2004 253 Nürenberg – Ingolstadt 300 2006 89 München – Augsburg 230 2010 62 (Leipzig/Halle -) Gröbers – Erfurt 300 2015 98 Nürnberg – Erfurt 250 2017 218 (Karlsruhe -) Offenburg – Basel 250 112 Frankfurt – Mannheim 300 81 Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg 250 166 Hamburg/Bremen – Hannover 300 114 (Hannover -) Seelze – Minden 230 71 (Frankfurt -) Hanau – Fulda/Würzburg 300 126 Rome – Florence (First section) 250 1981 150 Rome – Florence (Second section) 250 1984 74 Rome – Florence (Third section) 250 1992 24 Rome – Naples 300 2006 220 Turin – Novara 300 2006 94 Milan – Bologna 300 2008 182 Novara – Milan 300 2008 55 Florence – Bologna 300 2009 77 Schiphol – Rotterdam– Belgian Border 300 2008 120 Warsaw – Lodz – Wroclaw – Poznan 300 2015 500 Warsaw – Ktowice / Krakow 300 2015 212 Lisboa – Caia (- Madrid) 350 2013 206 Porto – Valença (- Vigo) first phase 250 2013 55 Lisboa – Porto 300 2015 290 Porto – Valença (- Vigo) second phase 250 45 Aveiro – Almeida (- Salamanca) 250 170 Evora – Faro – Vila Real de SA (- Huelva) 250 240 Moscow – St. Petersburg 300 650 Madrid – Seville 270 1992 471 Madrid – Lleida 300 2003 519 Zaragoza – Huesca 200 2003 79 (Madrid -) La Sagra – Toledo 250 2005 21 Córdoba – Antequera 300 2006 100 Lleida – Camp de Tarragona 300 2006 82 Madrid – Segovia – Valladolid 300 2007 179 Antequera – Málaga 300 2007 55 Camp de Tarragona – Barcelona 300 2008 88 Figueres – Frontera (- Perpignan) 300 2009 20 Barcelona – Figueres 300 2010 / 2012 132 Madrid-Valencia /Alicante / Murcia 300 2010 / 2012 902 Vitoria – Bilbao – San Sebastián 250 2012 175 Variante de Pajares 250 2012 50 Ourense – Santiago 300 2012 88 Bobadilla – Granada 250 2012 109 La Coruña – Vigo 250 2012 158 Navalmoral – Cáceres – Badajoz – Fr. Port. 300 278 Hellín – Cieza (Variante de Camarillas) 250 27 Sevilla – Antequera 300 128 Valladolid – Burgos – Vitoria 300 211 Venta de Baños – León – Asturias 238 Madrid – Navalmoral de la Mata 300 191 Olmedo – Zamora – Orense 300 2012 323 Palencia – Santander 300 201 Zaragoza – Castejón – Logroño 250 149 Castejón – Pamplona 300 75 Orense – Vigo (vía Cerdedo) 250 60 Stockholm – Malmö / Goteborg 300 750 Frutigen – Visp (Lötschberg base tunnel) 250 2007 35 Erstfeld – Biasca (Gotthard base tunnel) 250 2017 57 Giubiasco – Lugano (Ceneri base tunnel) 250 2019 15 Fawkham Junction – Tunnel 300 2003 74 London – Southfleet Junction 300 2007 39 Under construction = 3474 Total Europe 2025 = 17541 Qinhuangdao – Shenyang 200 2003 442 Jinan – Qingdao 200 2006 (tests) 330 Jinan – Qingdao 250 2006 (tests) 60 Beijing – Tianjing 300 2008 115 Wuhan – Guanzhou - Shenzhen 300 2010 1045 Shijiazhuang – Tai Yuan (Shi-Tai Line) 250 2010 190 Zhengzhou – Xian 250 2010 454 Hangzhou – Ningbo – Fuzhou – Shenzhen 250 2010 1600 Beijing – Shanghai 350 2010 1320 Beijing – Wuhan 300 2010 1100 Harbin – Dalian 250 2010 905 Tianjin – Qinhuandao 250 2010 260 Nanjung – Wuhan 250 2010 490 Taipei – Kaohsiung 300 2007 345 Mumbai – Amehdabad 250 495 Tokyo – Osaka (Tokaido) 270 1964 515 Osaka – Okayama (San-yo) 270 1972 161 Okayama – Hakata (San-yo) 300 1975 393 Omiya – Morioka (Tohoku) 275 1982 465 Omiya – Niigata (Joetsu) 240 1982 270 [Fukushima – Yamagata (Yamagata) 130 1992 MINI 87] [Morioka – Akita (Akita) 130 1997 MINI 127] Takasaki – Nagano (Hokuriku) 260 1997 117 [Yamagata – Shinjo (Yamagata) 130 1999 MINI 62] Morioka – Hachinohe (Tohoku) 260 2002 97 Yatsuhiro – Kagoshima Chuo (Kyushu) 260 2004 127 Hachinohe – Shin Aomori (Tohoku) 2011 82 Hakata – Shin Yatsuhiro (Kyushu) 2011 130 Nagano – Kanazawa (Hokuriku) 2015 229 Shin Aomori – Shin Hakodate (Hokkaido) 2016 149 Shin Hakodate – Sapporo (Hokkaido) 211 Kanazawa – Osaka (Hokuriku) 254 Hakata – Nagasaki (Kyushu) 118 Medina – Jeddah – Mecca 300 2015 550 Seoul – Daegu 300 2004 330 Ankara-Đstanbul 250 2008 533 Bandırma-Bursa-Ayazma-Osmaneli 250 190 Halkalı-Bulgaria Border 250 230 Under construction = 4821 Tanger – Marrakech 300 2015 680 Buenos Aires – Rosario 250 2020 315 Rio de Janeiro – Sao Paulo 300 2025 500 North East Corridor ([Boston –] NY – W) 240 362 Los Angeles – Sacramento 300 2025 900 TOTAL KM OTHER COUNTRIES: Total other countries 2025 = 2757 Under construction = 8295 |