Gare TGV Haute-Picardie

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**Haute-Picardie TGV**
Station Information
Services	TGV Nord
Tracks	4
Platforms	2
Location
Région	Picardie
Départment	Somme
Municipality	Ablaincourt-Pressoir

TGV Haute-Picardie is a railway station on the LGV Nord-Europe between Lille and Paris. Geographically, it is located between the towns of Saint Quentin and Amiens. When built, it was criticized by the press for being too far from either town to be useful. It is located near a trunk road rather than a connecting railway line: it was often nicknamed la gare des betteraves, or 'beetroot station', as it is surrounded by beetroot fields.

As a very small TGV station, from the point of view of watching the trains the platform is only a few meters from the main running lines, where trains pass by at 300 km/h (186 mph), and there is a good view of the lines in both directions. In most stations on high-speed lines there is some form of barrier preventing this close up viewing from the platform.