Gare de Valence TGV

Gare de Valence TGV
Station statistics
Address	Alixan, Drôme, Rhône-Alpes  France
Coordinates
Lines	TGV Méditerranée Valence–Moirans railway
Platforms	6
Tracks	6
Other information
Opened	2001

Gare de Valence TGV (IATA: XHK) is a railway station in Valence, France which offers regular TGV services. The station, located in eastern Valence (Alixan), is about ten kilometres north-east from the town centre, allowing through trains to pass at full speed. With its opening in 2001, the station has considerably shortened travel times for travellers throughout eastern France.

Valence TGV was built for and opened along with the LGV Méditerranée, which extends south from Valence to Marseille. The station is only 1 km south of the end of LGV Rhône-Alpes, which extends north from Valence to Lyon and, via the LGV Sud-Est, on to Paris in 2h11.

Contents 1 Station 2 Train Services 3 Travel Times 4 References

Station

Valence TGV has some unique station architecture. Built primarily of reinforced concrete, one of the main features is the glass on all walls of the station building. The station is built on a slight incline, which makes it slightly harder for handicapped people to move around the building.

Valence TGV a bi-level station, the top level used for TER trains while the bottom level is used for TGV trains. The lower level, aligned roughly north-south, has 4 tracks: 2 in the centre to allow though trains to pass without slowing, and 2 outer tracks for stopping TGV services. The upper level, aligned north-east to south-west, has 2 platforms for trains on the Valence–Moirans railway, a classic line which runs southwest to Valence city, and northeast to Moirans and Grenoble. There are regular shuttles from Valence TGV to Valence City station, in city centre.

French highway RD 532 provides road access to the station, and two large carparks have been built at the station to allow passengers to park their car and ride the train.

Train Services

Travel Times

Travel times have been decreased dramatically using Valence TGV station.^[1]

Direct TGV services from Valence TGV, best travel time (frequencies)

• Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 – TGV, 2h16 to 2h47 (7 per day)
• Aix en Provence TGV, 0h53 (4 per day)
• Amsterdam Centraal Thalys summer service every Saturday from end of June to end of august.
• Bordeaux, 5h35
• Bruxelles, 4h10
• Dijon, 2h21 (2 to 4 per day)
• Genève-Cornavin, 2h22 (1 per day)
• Laroche-Migennes, 2h18 (4 per week)
• Le Creusot TGV, 1h28 (4 per week)
• Le Havre, 5h15 (1 per day)
• Lille-Europe, 3h22
• Lyon Part-Dieu, 00h35
• Lyon Saint Exupéry, 00h29 (4 per day)
• Mâcon TGV, 1h21 (1 to 3 per day)
• Mantes-la-Jolie, 3h42 (1 per day)
• Marne la Vallée, 2h05 (5 to 6 per day)
• Marseille-Saint-Charles, 0h58
• Massy TGV, 2h43 (3 to 5 per day)
• Melun, 3h15 (4 per week)
• Montpellier, 1h07
• Nantes, 5h20
• Nice, 3h45
• Nîmes, 0h41
• Paris-Gare de Lyon, 2h10
• Perpignan, 2h49
• Rennes, 4h45
• Rouen, 4h29 (1 per day)
• Sens, 2h40 (4 per week)
• TGV Haute Picardie, 2h54 (4 per week)
• Toulouse, 3h27
• Versailles-Chantiers, 3h08 (1 per day)

References

• Timetables TER Rhône-Alpes (French)

Preceding station		SNCF		Following station
Lyon-Part-Dieu toward Paris-Lyon		TGV		Avignon TGV toward Marseille-St-Charles
		TGV		Nîmes toward Montpellier-St-Roch
Romans-Bourg-de-Péage toward Annecy or Geneva		TER Rhône-Alpes 2		Valence-Ville Terminus
Romans-Bourg-de-Péage toward Grenoble-Universités-Gières		TER Rhône-Alpes 61
Terminus		TER Rhône-Alpes 64		Valence-Ville toward Briançon