Gare de Dinan

Gare de Dinan
Gare de Dinan clock tower
Location	Place du 11 Novembre 1918, Dinan France
Coordinates	48°27′25″N 2°03′13″W / 48.456846°N 2.053533°W / 48.456846; -2.053533Coordinates: 48°27′25″N 2°03′13″W / 48.456846°N 2.053533°W / 48.456846; -2.053533
Elevation	76 metres (249 ft)
Owned by	RFF / SNCF
Operated by	SNCF
Line(s)	Lison to Lamballe La Brohinière to Dinan Dinan to Dinard-Saint-Énogat
Platforms	2
Route map Legend Line from Caen 295.200 0.000 Lison(7m) 0,455 Line to Cherbourg 2.902 Airel(10m) 7.125 La Meauffe(12m) 10.396 Pont-Hébert(11m) 18.467 Saint-Lô(14m) 18.741 to Condé-sur-Vire 26.213 Canisy(62m) 31.774 Carantilly - Marigny 34.574 Cametours(111m) 39.830 Belval(130m) 47.601 from Sottevast 47.984 Coutances(49m) 54.1xx from Regnéville-sur-Mer 54.837 Orval - Hyenville 57.739 Quettreville(19m) 63.780 Cérences(26m) 69.919 Hudimesnil(93m) Line to Granville 75.305 Folligny(126m) 76.848 Line to Argentan 80.145 La Haye-Pesnel(90m) 86.407 Montviron - Sartilly 93.929 Avranches(11m) 100.135 Pontaubault(15m) 100.300 to Domfront 108.043 Servon - Tanis(13m) 115.414 115.832 Pontorson - Mt-St-M. to Fougères to le Mont-St-Michel 121.099 Pleine-Fougères(35m) 128.579 La Boussac(36m) 136.781 Line from Saint-Malo 137.511 Dol-de-Bretagne(21m) 138,298 Line to Rennes 145,763 Plerguer(22m) 150.172 from Gouesnière - Cancale 150.572 Miniac-Morvan(24m) 155.884 Pleudihen(33m) 158.903 Rance river (101m) 159.587 La Hisse(42m) 164.200 to Dinard 169.940 Dinan(76m) to La Brohinière 174.532 Corseul - L.(123m) 183.131 Plancoët(8m) 191.549 Landébia(59m) 197.4xx Quintenic - P.(102m) E.P. (private) Line from Rennes 205.577 206.007 454.259 Lamballe(56m) Line to Saint-Brieuc

The Gare de Dinan (Dinan Station) is a French railway station on the Lison to Lamballe line, in the town of Dinan, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany. It has included a railway museum since 1991. The station was opened in 1879 by the Western Railways Company. It is now a station of the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF), served by trains operated by TER Bretagne.

Network location

Two X 73500 railcars in the station, serving the Dol-de-Bretagne route.

The station is at an altitude of 76 metres (249 ft). It is at kilometer point (KP) 169.940 of the Lison to Lamballe line, between the Hisse and Corseul stations. It was at the start of lines to Saint-Énogat and La Brohinière, both of which were closed in the 1990s.

History

The single-track section from Dol-de-Bretagne to Lamballe, on which is Dinan is located, was commissioned on 29 December 1879 by the Western Railway Company. The present station dates from 1931, and was designed by Georges-Robert Lefort. It was part of the construction program launched by Raoul Dautry, general manager of the state railway administration, to renovate several of the company's stations. Inside the hall there are two mosaics. One is a map of the railways in the region, and the other a map of the town of Dinan. These mosaics have been registered as historical monuments since 21 November 1995.^[1]

Services

The station has a building with open ticket windows every day and is also equipped with ticket vending machines.^[2]

Dinan is served by TER Bretagne trains that terminate or originate in the station.^[2] Trains come from or go to Dol-de-Bretagne on one side (TER line 17), or Saint-Brieuc on the other side (TER line 24). Some of the trains go on to, or come from, Lannion or Guingamp. There is only one round trip per day that does not end in this station, between Dol-de-Bretagne and Saint-Brieuc. The station was served by a direct express train from Paris until 27 September 1986.

Connections

There is a parking lot.^[2]

The station is served by three road networks:

• Lines 1 and 2 of the Dinan urban bus (Dinanbus)^[3]
• Coaches of the Tibus departmental network on the following lines:^[4]
  • No 10 between Saint-Malo and Dinan
  • No 11 between Dinan and Taden
  • No 17 between Dinan and Montauban-de-Bretagne
• Coaches of the ILLENOO departmental network between Rennes and Dinard.^[5]

Museum

The Railway Museum was opened in the station in 1991.^[6] It is managed by the Dinan Railway Society, and present the history of the regional railroad and material gathered by collectors association: models, costumes, posters, job referrals, model trains and a beautiful and very large scale model at 1:43 with several trains running in a large Dinan landscape that is rich in details.

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