Gare de Carcassonne

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Carcassonne

Gare de Carcassonne
Station statistics
Address 1 Boulevard Maréchal Joffre
11000 Carcassonne  France
Coordinates 43°13′05″N 2°21′07″E / 43.218182°N 2.351826°E / 43.218182; 2.351826
Line(s) Bordeaux–Sète railway
Carcassonne - Rivesaltes
Other information
Opened 22 April 1857
Owned by RFF / SNCF
Services

TGV, Intercités and TER Languedoc-Roussillon

Carcassonne is a railway station in Carcassonne, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, located on the Bordeaux - Sète and Carcassonne - Rivesaltes railway lines. The station is served by TGV, Intercités and TER services operated by SNCF.

History

The station built in 1857 by the Railway Company du Midi is located to the north of the ville basse near the Canal du Midi and extended when the Compagnie du Midi[1] opened a second line with the stretch from Carcassonne to Limoux in 15 July 1876,[2] which was extended to Quillan 1 July 1878.[2]

Architecture

The main building is in the classical style and flanked by two wings and a clock. The station hall is decorated with a fresco (8m x 3m) installed in 1995 the painter Jean Camberoque representing the land of the Aude. The Station Buffet features a mural painted in 1996 representing the actor Philippe Noiret waiting for the train on the station platform.

Train Services

The following services currently call at Carcassonne:

  • High speed services (TGV) Lille - Lyon - Toulouse
  • High speed services (TGV) Bordeaux - Toulouse - Montpellier - Lyon - Dijon
  • High speed services (TGV) Toulouse - Montpellier - Avignon - Marseille
  • High speed services (TGV) Toulouse - Perpignan - Barcelona
  • Intercity services (Intercités) Paris - Vierzon - Limoges - Toulouse - Narbonne - Cerbère
  • Intercity services (Intercités) Bordeaux - Toulouse - Montpellier - Marseille
  • Night services (Intercités) Paris - Limoges - Narbonne - Portbou
  • Local service (TER Languedoc-Roussillon) Toulouse - Carcassonne - Narbonne
  • Local service (TER Languedoc-Roussillon) Carcassonne - Limoux - Quillan
  • Local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Toulouse - Castelnaudary - Carcassonne
Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
Terminus
 TGV
toward Lille Europe
Terminus
 TGV
toward Marseille-St-Charles
toward Bordeaux
 TGV
toward Dijon-Ville
Terminus
 TGV
Intercités
toward Cerbère
Intercités
toward Marseille-St-Charles
Intercités
night trains
Lézignan-Corbières
toward Portbou
toward Toulouse
 TER Languedoc-Roussillon 4
Lézignan-Corbières
toward Narbonne
Terminus TER Languedoc-Roussillon 11
toward Quillan
toward Toulouse
 TER Midi-Pyrénées 20 Terminus

Gallery

  • A TGV service to Eastern France

  • A TER train to Quillan waiting in the station

  • A Train passing through the station

References

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  1. ↑ France, Bulletin des lois de la République franc̜aise, Imprimerie nationale, 1864, pp408 archive (15th January 2012).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Guillaume Pourageaux, article Rail Passion no 97, 2005, pp76

Coordinates: 43°13′5″N 2°21′7″E / 43.21806°N 2.35194°E / 43.21806; 2.35194

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