Marseille-Saint-Charles train station
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 View of the station concourse from the platform
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| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 16 |
| opening | 1848 |
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| City / municipality | Marseille |
| Department | Bouches-du-Rhône department |
| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 18 '13 " N , 5 ° 22' 47" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 49 m |
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| List of train stations in France | |
The Marseille-Saint-Charles train station is the main train station in the greater Marseille area . A first station building was opened on January 8, 1848, the current construction was not completed until a few years later. The terminus is located on a small hill near the city center.
The number of travelers has risen sharply in recent years: in 2000 it was 7.1 million passengers, in 2008 it was already 15.5 million. This is particularly due to the commissioning of the LGV Méditerranée high-speed line , which reduced the travel time from Paris to Marseille to three hours.
location
The station is at km 862.125 on the Paris – Marseille line and at km 444.084 on the Lyon – Marseille line . It is also the starting point of the Marseille – Ventimiglia and Marseille-Saint-Charles – Marseille-Joliette railway lines .
It has 16 platform tracks that are electrified with 1500 V direct current . There is a parking facility north of the train station.
history
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The station building was built in 1848 in the form of a U encircling the tracks, there was one wing for arriving and one for departing passengers. These two wings were connected by a glass roof to form a station hall .
After the Second World War , the north wing was demolished in order to expand the station. The hall roof and the wall supporting it were preserved. At the end of the 1990s it was necessary to restructure the station. The project included the redesign of the bus station and the surrounding districts in connection with the commissioning of LGV Méditerranée . In June 2001 the redesigned station was put into operation, among other things the cross platform was completely renewed. On the north side, the new Honnorat hall was opened in 2007 , it has an area of 6400 m².
On October 1, 2017, a man born in Tunisia in 1987 killed two young women with a knife at the train station. The assassin was shot dead by security forces shortly afterwards.
business
From Saint-Charles train station you can take the TGV high-speed train to the following stations: Paris-Gare-de-Lyon , Massy TGV , Marne-la-Vallée - Chessy , Aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle 2 TGV , Valence TGV , Aix-en -Provence TGV , Avignon TGV , Nîmes , Lyon Part-Dieu and Lille-Europe . Since March 23, 2012, there has been a direct TGV connection via Lyon-Part-Dieu, Strasbourg-Ville and Mannheim Hbf to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf .
Since May 1, 2015 there has been a connection to London St Pancras with the SNCF subsidiary Eurostar . There are three pairs of trains a week; In the holiday months of June and August, five trips per week are made.
There are connections with Intercités to the train stations of Nîmes, Montpellier , Béziers , Toulouse , Bordeaux and Menton .
Marseille-Saint-Charles train station is the main hub for the local trains of TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur . Many lines lead from here into the surrounding area, including to Toulon , Nice, Aix-en-Provence , Briançon , Grenoble , Lyon and Avignon .
Connection
The station is served by the two metro lines of Métro Marseille , which are operated by the Régie des Transports de Marseille . In addition, some bus lines stop at the train station. The station has also had a large bus station since 2006 , which is the hub of “Cartreize”, a bus company in the Bouches-du-Rhône department .
Expansion plans
As part of the expansion plans in the region ( LGV Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ), the existing terminus station is to have additional underground through tracks by 2030.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Livre: Nouvelle géographie ferroviaire de la France par Gérard Blier, Tome 2, page 226.
- ↑ Après dix ans de travaux, la gare Saint-Charles est sur les rails et La nouvelle gare Saint-Charles ouvre ses quais et ses commerces , La Provence et Autour de la gare Saint-Charles, agrandie, Marseille se régénère , le Monde , December 9 and 10, 2007.
- ^ Spiegel Online October 2, 2017: Marseille: IS claims fatal attack for itself .
- ↑ Mobilicités of May 12, 2015: Eurostar met Lyon, Avignon and Marseille en direct de Londres (French) accessed on June 18, 2015 ( Memento of the original of June 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Les trois grandes étapes de réalisation | Ligne Nouvelle Provence Côte d'Azur. Retrieved March 7, 2018 (French).
