Gare de Tricot
Gare de Tricot | |||||||||||
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| Location |
Rue de la Gare 60420 Tricot | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°33′45″N 2°34′53″E / 49.56250°N 2.58139°ECoordinates: 49°33′45″N 2°34′53″E / 49.56250°N 2.58139°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | RFF/SNCF | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Ormoy-Villiers–Boves railway | ||||||||||
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The Gare de Tricot (Tricot station) is a railway station located in the commune of Tricot in the Oise department, northern France. The station is situated at 105.293 km of the Ormoy-Villiers–Boves railway (km 0 is the Gare du Nord in Paris), between Estrées-Saint-Denis and Montdidier. Its elevation is 101 m above sea level. It is served by TER Picardie trains from Amiens to Compiègne.
History
The Ormoy-Villiers–Boves railway, on which the station is situated, was an important freight line on which coal was transported from the mines in the North to Paris. This use has declined, part of the line has been abandoned, and the formerly double track railway was reduced to a single track in the 1980s.
An abandoned storage yard and the former junction (abandoned in the 1960s) to the sugar factory are reminders of the industrial past of Tricot (textiles and sugar).