The railway from Orléans to Montauban is an important French 544-kilometre long railway line, that connects Orléans and northern France to Montauban and southern France via Limoges.

The railway was opened in several stages between 1847 and 1893, when the section from Limoges to Brive-la-Gaillarde was finished.

The main stations on the Orléans–Montauban railway are: The section Orléans–Châteauroux was built and exploited by the Compagnie du Centre, that became part of Chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans in 1852.

[5] The first section that was opened in 1847 led from Orléans (on the existing line from Paris to Tours) to Châteauroux.

[4] The distance between Paris and Toulouse was shortened by a further 42 km by the opening of the Limoges–Montauban section of the Orléans–Montauban railway, in three stages: Cahors–Montauban in 1884, Brive-la-Gaillarde–Cahors in 1891, and finally Limoges–Brive-la-Gaillarde via Uzerche in 1893.