Angoulême train station
| Angoulême | |
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| IBNR | 8700063 |
| opening | October 10, 1852 |
| Profile on SNCF.fr | Code: frang |
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| City / municipality | Angoulême |
| Department | Charente department |
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 39 '13 " N , 0 ° 9' 52" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 46 m |
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The Angoulême station 's long-distance train station of the city of Angouleme in the Charente . It is 2 hours and 10 minutes from Paris by TGV and 55 minutes from Bordeaux , with connections to the cities of Royan , Limoges and Poitiers .
location
As a separation station, it is located at kilometer 449.384 of the Paris – Bordeaux line , at 519.904 km on the Limoges – Angoulême line and at 67.462 km on the Beillant – Angoulême line . Its height above sea level is 46 meters. It is located north of the city center and is connected to the public bus network.
history
The city of Angoulême has been served by railways since 1852 because of its location on the Paris – Bordeaux route. The route was built by two different companies and opened in several stages. While the Paris – Orléans section goes back to the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans , the Compagnie du chemin de fer d'Orléans à Bordeaux operated the Orléans – Bordeaux route, to which Angoulême was connected since 1852. On July 12, 1853, the section from Poitiers to Angoulême opened, with which the city was connected to Paris. For the operation of the line in Charente, the construction of two viaducts over the rivers Touvre ( railway viaduct Foulpougne ) and Coutaubières as well as the construction of three tunnels was necessary. The work required for this was under the direction of Monsieur Rampnoux-Duvignaud, a bridge and road construction engineer. Five workers died building the Livernan tunnel and one worker died in the Angoulême tunnel. The line was electrified in 1938.
Initially there were two stations: Angoulême station, which was also called gare d'Orléans because of its location on the Paris – Orléans route , was partly integrated into the building of the former royal naval school and was used by Napoleon III. inaugurated on October 10, 1852. On the opposite side of the avenue Gambetta , the gare de l'État was built by the Compagnie des Charentes and later renamed . A second tunnel had to be dug under the city for the train service to Saintes and Limoges, which was set up from here in 1875 . The single-storey, never fully completed station building was destroyed in a bombing during the Second World War .
To the north of this, in 1896, an industrial station and a regional station of the Compagnie de chemins de fer départementaux ( meter-gauge network , the line is called Petit Rouillac in Charente ).
In September 1939, Angoulême station reached its maximum capacity up to then: up to 18,000 refugees from the Moselle department arrived every day .
In October 1942, Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from the train station in Charent cattle cars .
The station was destroyed in 1943. On June 15, 1944, it was bombed by American planes, killing 140 people.
connections
Intermodal transport
There is a TER-operated coach line from Angoulême station via Jonzac to Pons . It connects the Charente and Charente-Maritime departments and serves smaller cities such as Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire . The end of the line is Pons train station .
future plans
As a result of the environmental summit in 2007 , the construction of a new high-speed line between Tours and Bordeaux as part of LGV Sud Europe Atlantique is planned by 2016 , to which the Angoulême train station is also to be connected. The travel time between Angoulême and Bordeaux should be shortened to less than 35 minutes.
Web links
- Angoulême station on the official website of the SNCF
- Historical photos
Remarks
- ^ Angouleme, Chemin de Fer d'Orleans, Tunnel, SNCF. charente.angouleme.free.fr, accessed March 14, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Reinhard Douté: Les 400 profils de lignes voyageurs du réseau ferré français , La Vie du Rail, vol. 1, August 2011, ISBN 978-2-918758-34-1 , p. 198.
- ^ The Tours-Poitiers section was opened on July 15, 1851.
- ↑ In Livernan in the south, in Angoulême and Ruffec in the North.
- ↑ a b Claude Tavé: Histoire des chemins de fer de la Charente , atelier du graphique Cognaçais.
- ^ Angoulême, Ligne de l'État. charente.angouleme.free.fr, accessed on March 13, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Departure plans on the official website of SNCF / TER Poitou-Charentes (access = 13.03.2013) ( Memento from December 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )