Gare de Carcassonne

Carcassonne

Gare de Carcassonne

Location

1 Avenue Maréchal Joffre
11000 Carcassonne

France

Coordinates

43°13′05″N 2°21′07″E / 43.218182°N 2.351826°E

Owned by

RFF / SNCF

Line(s)

Bordeaux–Sète railway
Carcassonne - Rivesaltes

History

Opened

22 April 1857

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 on 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 (AVE) 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
Toulouse Terminus	TGV	Narbonne toward Lille Europe
Toulouse Terminus	TGV	Narbonne toward Marseille-St-Charles
Toulouse toward Bordeaux	TGV	Narbonne toward Dijon-Ville
Castelnaudary toward Paris-Austerlitz	Intercités	Narbonne toward Cerbère
Castelnaudary toward Bordeaux-Saint-Jean	Intercités	Narbonne toward Marseille-St-Charles
Castelnaudary toward Paris-Austerlitz	Intercités night trains	Lézignan-Corbières toward Portbou
Bram toward Toulouse	TER Languedoc-Roussillon 4	Lézignan-Corbières toward Narbonne
Terminus	TER Languedoc-Roussillon 11	Couffoulens-Leuc toward Quillan
Bram toward Toulouse	TER Midi-Pyrénées 20	Terminus
Preceding station	Renfe Operadora	Following station
Toulouse-Matabiau Terminus	AVE	Perpignan toward Barcelona Sants

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

Timetables TER Languedoc-Roussillon (French)

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

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