Southend-on-Sea to Lyon train

Trains from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon start at €83.39 and take 6h 43m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon starts at €83.39 and takes 6h 43m door to door, run by 1 operator over 818 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 43mDoor to door
  • 5h 59mMoving
  • €120.79 to €247.29From
  • 06:21 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 27.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 6, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€120.79 to €247.29 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Eurostar runs this service and does not sell it here. Trainline takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Trainline lists departures for Southend-on-Sea to Lyon on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €243.99Fri18
  2. about €247.29Sat19
  3. about €218.14Sun20
  4. about €124.64Mon21
  5. about €137.29Tue22
  6. about €145.54Wed23
  7. about €193.94Thu24
  8. about €121.34Fri25
  9. about €125.19Sat26
  10. about €122.99Sun27
  11. about €124.64Mon28
  12. about €131.24Tue29
  13. about €120.79Wed30
  14. about €134.54Thu1

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 6, 2026

Cheapest€83.39
  1. Eurostar E380507:302h 54m11:24Southend EastParis Gare de Lyon
  2. Eurostar E775412:173h 7m15:24Paris Gare de LyonLyon Part Dieu

Changes at Paris, with 53 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 38mCO2 25.1 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€86.69
  1. Eurostar E773906:215h 59m13:20Southend EastLyon Part Dieu

Door to door 6h 43mCO2 27.0 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Rail operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Eurostar€86.696h 15m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi
  • Eurostar

The train gets you into Lyon. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Lyon for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Lyon Part Dieu and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Southend-on-Sea to Lyon

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €104.2990 days
  2. €71.8460 days
  3. €88.3445 days
  4. €98.7930 days
  5. €132.8921 days
  6. €134.5414 days
  7. €193.947 days
  8. €218.143 days
  9. €243.991 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €71.84.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 240 percent. The most expensive point is €243.99, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €122.99Sun
  2. €124.64Mon
  3. €131.24Tue
  4. €120.79Wed
  5. €134.54Thu
  6. €121.34Fri
  7. €125.19Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Southend-on-Sea

Rail
  • Southend East
  • Southend Central
  • Southend Victoria

Lyon

Rail
  • Lyon Part Dieu
  • Lyon Perrache
  • Lyon Part-Dieu
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 818 km against 711 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Paris, Paris 20 Ménilmontant, Marne La Vallée, Paris 18 Buttes-Montmartre. The gap between arriving and leaving is 53 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Southend-on-Sea at 06:21 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Southend-on-Sea to Lyon

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon take?

The Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon takes 6h 43m door to door, of which 5h 59m is spent moving. The route runs 818 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon cost?

The Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon starts at €83.39 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €89.99. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon?

1 operators run the Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon: Eurostar. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon use?

The Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon leaves from Southend East and arrives at Lyon Part Dieu. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon?

Fares for the Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €71.84. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 240 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon produce?

The Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon produces about 27.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 818 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon?

Operators on the Train from Southend-on-Sea to Lyon publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 43m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Southend-on-Sea to Lyon on September 17, 2026: 818 km of route against 711 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €83.39, and 6h 43m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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