Carcassonne station

Carcassonne
Carcassonne
	Gare de Carcassonne
General information
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 Occitanie

Carcassonne is a railway station in Carcassonne, Occitanie, 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) Toulouse - Montpellier - Lyon - Dijon - Nancy
High speed services (TGV) Toulouse - Perpignan - Barcelona
Intercity services (Intercités) Bordeaux - Toulouse - Montpellier - Marseille
Night services (Intercités) Paris - Limoges - Narbonne - Portbou
Regional service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse - Carcassonne - Narbonne
Local service (TER Occitanie) Carcassonne - Limoux - Quillan
Local service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse - Castelnaudary - Carcassonne

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Gallery

A TGV service to Eastern France
A TER train to Quillan waiting in the station
A Train passing through the station

References

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

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

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[FranceLois1864-1] France, Bulletin des lois de la République franc̜aise, Imprimerie nationale, 1864, pp408 archive (15 January 2012).

[Pourageaux2005p76-2] Guillaume Pourageaux, article Rail Passion no 97, 2005, pp76

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