Gare de Monaco-Monte-Carlo

Monaco - Monte-Carlo
New underground platforms (2006)
Location La Condamine
Coordinates 43°44′19″N 7°25′09″E / 43.73861°N 7.41917°E / 43.73861; 7.41917Coordinates: 43°44′19″N 7°25′09″E / 43.73861°N 7.41917°E / 43.73861; 7.41917
Owned by SNCF Réseau
Operated by SNCF
Line(s) TER, TGV
Platforms 2
Tracks 3

Monaco - Monte-Carlo is the only railway station in the Principality of Monaco. It is served by trains of the French operator SNCF, on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway line. The station, along with the entire railway line in the principality, is located underground.

History

Old surface platforms (1974)

The railway line from Marseille reached Monaco in 1868. The station, originally named Monaco (Gare de Monaco), was renamed Monaco-Monte Carlo in the 1950s, after the building of a new tunnel bypassing a second SNCF station named Monte Carlo.[1][2][3]

In the early 1990s, it was decided to re-route the railway underground and build a new station. Construction commenced in 1993, and the new station opened on 7 December 1999.[3] This comprises a curved tunnel 466 metres in length, 22 metres wide and 13 metres in height. There are three tracks through the station, accessed from a side platform on the south side, and an island platform between the two tracks to the north.

Train services

Lower entrance to the station
Railway stations in Monaco

The majority of trains serving Monaco-Monte-Carlo are local TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur services between Marseille-Saint-Charles and Ventimiglia, just inside the French-Italian border. There are also a small number of TGV services from Paris-Gare de Lyon.

The station is served by the following services:

  • High speed services (TGV) Paris - Avignon - Cannes - Nice - Ventimiglia
  • EuroCity services (Thello) Marseille - Cannes - Nice - Monaco - Ventimiglia - Genoa - Milan
  • Night services (Russian Railways) Nice - Milan - Innsbruck - Vienna - Warsaw - Minsk - Moscow
  • Local services (TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur) Grasse - Cannes - Nice - Monaco - Ventimiglia
Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
toward Paris-Lyon
TGV
toward Ventimiglia
Thello
Terminus
Intercités
night trains
Cap-d'Ail
TER PACA 4
Cap-Martin-Roquebrune
toward Ventimiglia

See also

References

  1. ↑ Railways in Monaco (sinfin.net)
  2. ↑ (in French) See also: fr:Schéma de la ligne de Marseille-Saint-Charles à Vintimille (frontière)
  3. 1 2 (in French) History of Monaco station from the official site
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.