Gare de Nantes
Gare de Nantes | |
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| Train | |
.jpg) Entrance hall of the Gare de Nantes | |
| Location |
27, boulevard de Stalingrad BP 34112 44041 Nantes cedex 1 |
| Coordinates | 47°13′0″N 1°32′30″W / 47.21667°N 1.54167°WCoordinates: 47°13′0″N 1°32′30″W / 47.21667°N 1.54167°W |
| Owned by | RFF / SNCF |
| Line(s) |
TGV Atlantique TER Pays de la Loire Interloire |
| Platforms | 9 |
| Tracks | 14 (11 through; 3 terminus) |
| Construction | |
| Platform levels | 1 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1968 |
| Electrified | 25kV AC |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers | 10 million/year |
The Gare de Nantes is the principal passenger railway station serving the French city of Nantes. It is a through station aligned east-west, with entrances and station facilities on both north and south sides. The two entrances are often described as Gare Nord and Gare Sud, as if they were separate stations, but they are in fact linked to each other and to all the platforms by a pedestrian subway.[1]
Construction was started on the current station in 1965, and it was placed into service three years later. It is situated somewhat to the east of the old Gare d'Orléans, originally the Nantes station of the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, which it replaced. The southern entrance hall was opened in 1989, in time for the inauguration of the TGV Atlantique.[1]
Line 1 of the Tramway de Nantes serves the northern hall of the station. The southern hall is served by several of the bus services of the Tan network, including the Navette Tan Air express shuttle service to Nantes Atlantique Airport. Across the road from the southern hall is the southern terminus of the Navibus service that operates through the St Felix canal tunnel and up the River Erdre to the University of Nantes.[1]
Services
The station is served by the following service(s):
- High speed services (TGV) Nantes - Angers - Le Mans - Paris
- High speed services (TGV) Le Croisic - Saint-Nazaire - Nantes - Paris
- High speed services (TGV) Nantes - Le Mans - Massy - Lyon - Marseille / Montpellier
- High speed services (TGV) Nantes - Le Mans - Massy - Strasbourg / Lille
- Intercity services (Intercités) Quimper - Nantes - La Rochelle - Bordeaux - Toulouse
- Intercity services (Intercités) Nantes - Tours - Bourges - Lyon
- Regional services (TER Bretagne) Quimper - Lorient - Vannes - Redon - Nantes
- Regional services (Interloire) Le Croisic - Saint-Nazaire - Nantes - Angers - Saint-Pierre-des-Corps - Orleans
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Rennes - Redon - Nantes
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Le Croisic - Saint-Nazaire - Nantes
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Angers
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Clisson - La Roche-sur-Yon - Les Sables-d'Olonne
- Tram-Train services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Clisson - Cholet
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Sainte-Pazanne - Pornic
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Sainte-Pazanne - Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie
- Tram-Train services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - La Chapelle - Châteaubriant
| Preceding station | SNCF | Following station | ||
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toward Paris-Montparnasse | TGV | toward Les Sables-d'Olonne |
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toward eastern France | TGV | Terminus | ||
Savenay toward Quimper | Intercités | |||
| Terminus | Intercités | toward Lyon-Perrache |
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Savenay toward Quimper | TER Bretagne 3 | Terminus | ||
Ancenis toward Orléans | TER Centre-Val de Loire 1 | Terminus | ||
| Terminus | TER Pays de la Loire 1 | Chantenay toward Le Croisic |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 2 | Savenay toward Rennes |
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Thouaré-sur-Loire toward Angers-Saint-Laud | TER Pays de la Loire 4 | Terminus | ||
| Terminus | TER Pays de la Loire 6 | toward Cholet |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 8 | toward Les Sables-d'Olonne |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 10 | toward Pornic |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 11 | toward Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie |
References
- 1 2 3 "Gare de Nantes". Wikipedia France. 2008-08-26. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
- Timetables TER Pays de la Loire (French)
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gare de Nantes. |
- Nantes station official web site (in English)