Gare de Nantes

Gare de Nantes
Gare de Nantes
	Train
	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.

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.

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.

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) Nantes - La Rochelle - Bordeaux
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
Regional services (TER Pays de la Loire) Rennes - Nantes
Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Redon - Nantes
Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Le Croisic - Saint-Nazaire - Nantes
Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Angers - Le Mans
Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Ancenis
Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Clisson - La Roche-sur-Yon - Les Sables-d'Olonne
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 - Clisson - Cholet
Tram-Train services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - La Chapelle - Châteaubriant

Preceding station	SNCF	Following station
Angers-Saint-Laud toward Paris-Montparnasse	TGV	La Roche-sur-Yon toward Les Sables-d'Olonne
Angers-Saint-Laud toward eastern France	TGV	Terminus
Terminus	Intercités	La Roche-sur-Yon toward Bordeaux
Terminus	Intercités	Angers-Saint-Laud toward Lyon-Perrache
Savenay toward Quimper	TER Bretagne 3	Terminus
Ancenis toward Orléans	TER Centre-Val de Loire 2.6	Terminus
Terminus	TER Pays de la Loire 1	Chantenay toward Le Croisic
	TER Pays de la Loire 2	Savenay toward Redon
	TER Pays de la Loire 2	Rennes Terminus
Ancenis toward Angers-Saint-Laud	TER Pays de la Loire 4	Terminus
Thouaré-sur-Loire toward Ancenis	TER Pays de la Loire 5	Terminus
Terminus	TER Pays de la Loire 6	Clisson toward Cholet
	TER Pays de la Loire 8	Clisson toward Les Sables-d'Olonne
	TER Pays de la Loire 9	La Roche-sur-Yon toward La Rochelle
	TER Pays de la Loire 10	Rezé-Pont-Rousseau toward Pornic
	TER Pays de la Loire 11	Rezé-Pont-Rousseau toward Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie
	TER Pays de la Loire 21	Ancenis toward Le Mans
	TER Pays de la Loire 28	Ancenis toward Rennes
	TER Pays de la Loire T1	Haluchère-Batignolles toward Châteaubriant
	TER Pays de la Loire T2	Saint-Sébastien-Pas-Enchantés toward Clisson

References

Timetables TER Pays de la Loire (in French)

Internal link

Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway

External links

Nantes station official web site (in English)

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