Avignon TGV train station
| Avignon TGV | |
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 Interior view of the train station
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 + 2 |
| IBNR | 8796005 |
| opening | June 10, 2001 |
| Website URL | www.gares-sncf.com |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Avignon |
| Department | Vaucluse department |
| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 55 '18 " N , 4 ° 47' 9" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in France | |
The Avignon TGV station is a long-distance train station in the southern French city of Avignon , in the Vaucluse . It is located about three kilometers south of the center and is on the Méditerranée high-speed line between Lyon and Marseille . The station went into operation on June 10, 2001 with the high-speed line. Since the station has two central through tracks, it can be traversed by TGV trains at high speeds. The train station has direct connections u. a. to Paris , Marseille, Lyon, Nice , Lille , Brussels , Strasbourg and Geneva . The pair of TGV trains from Frankfurt am Main to Marseille, introduced on March 23, 2012, also stops here. In the summer months, a pair of Thalys trains also runs from Amsterdam to Marseille.
building
The station building was built as a shell structure in steel construction . Jean-Marie Duthilleul from the SNCF architecture firm AREP was responsible for the design. The building is 14.5 m high. Construction started in 1998.
Connection
The station was built as a typical TGV train station on a high-speed line, but now has a connection to the rest of the rail network. Since December 2013 there has been a rail connection (Virgule d'Avignon) between the Avignon Center station and the TGV station, as well as a connection with Transport express regional in the direction of Marseille-St-Charles (via Cavaillon ). This has been under construction since June 27, 2011 and reduces the travel time between the two stations in Avignon from 10-17 minutes to 5 minutes. The cost is 37.25 million euros. During the week, 35 trains run in each direction every day and run every hour; a train runs every 20 minutes during rush hour.
Many travelers come to the train station by car or by bus. There used to be a shuttle bus to downtown Avignon, but this has now been discontinued in favor of the TER shuttle train described above.
West of the train station (in the direction of Paris / Nîmes) is the viaduct fork of the high-speed lines from Lyon to Nîmes on the one hand and in the direction of Marseille via Avignon or from Marseille via Avignon to Nîmes on the other.
Track system
The station consists of two through tracks in the middle , to which a platform track connects on both sides . The two platform tracks have only one protective switch on the eastern side (towards Marseille) . On the west side, the two points , which function as protective points , lead to siding for railway service vehicles, which in turn are equipped with a protective point against the station track. After the two platform tracks on the west side have been led back into the through tracks and the switch connection of the main tracks has passed, the route branches with high-speed switches in the two branches to Paris and Nîmes and then leads over the Rhone bridges (Viaducs d'Avignon) . There is a simple switch connection in the through tracks on both sides of the station. This can be used to change from the northern to the southern track, as seen from the station. The eastern switch connection of the main line is in the Avignon overlap.
Web links
- Suivit du volet volet ferroviaire des CPER PACA et LR. (PDF; 2.0 MB) Ministère de l'Equipement des Transport et du Logement, April 2005, accessed on November 9, 2010 (French).
literature
- Ghislaine Garcin & Eric Verstrepen Gare Avignon-TGV Editions Parenthèses: Marseille 2006, ISBN 2-86364-131-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in Structurae.de
- ↑ La 1re pierre de la liaison ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release on the start of construction on RFF June 28, 2011
- ↑ Fiche horaire n ° 18 of TER PACA, accessed on January 20, 2014
