Tours station
Appearance
Gare de Tours | |
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General information | |
Location | Place du Général-Leclerc, Tours France |
Coordinates | 47°23′23″N 0°41′37″E / 47.38972°N 0.69361°E |
Owned by | RFF |
Operated by | SNCF |
Line(s) | TER, Corail |
Platforms | 2 |
Tracks | 3 |
Construction | |
Architect | Victor Laloux |
Other information | |
Station code | IATA: XJT[1] |
Gare de Tours is a railway station serving the city Tours, Indre-et-Loire department, western France. It is situated on the Paris–Bordeaux railway, the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway, and the non-electrified Tours–Le Mans railway. The Gare de Tours is a terminus; most TGV trains only serve the nearby Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps.
On 28 December 1984, the railway station was classified as monument historique.[2]
The architect of the 1898 station was Victor Laloux, with four allegorical limestone statues of cities by Jean Antoine Injalbert (Bordeaux and Toulouse) and Jean-Baptiste Hugues (Limoges and Nantes).
Services
The following services currently call at Tours:
- intercity services (Intercités) Nantes - Tours - Bourges - Lyon
- intercity services (Intercités) Caen - Alençon - Le Mans - Tours
- intercity services (Intercités) Paris - Orléans - Blois - Tours
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Template:TER Pays de la Loire lines | Terminus | |||
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Terminus | Template:TER Centre lines | toward Template:TER Centre stations |
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References
- ^ Airport information for Gare de Tours at Transport Search website.
- ^ "Garde de Tours — Monuments historiques" (in French). Base Mérimée. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
External links
Media related to Gare de Tours at Wikimedia Commons