Gare d'Orléans (Bordeaux)
The former Gare d'Orléans in the La Bastide district on the Quai de Queyries of Bordeaux is a former train station.
It was opened in 1852 as the southern end of the Bordeaux-Paris line by the Compagnie des chemins de fer d'Orléans . The terminus on the right bank of the Garonne and the associated railway facilities were no longer used for passenger traffic from 1955. Its location in the immediate vicinity of the historic center of the city on the left bank led, after decades of decline, to considerations of urban redesignation (ZAC Coeur de Bastide, 1997). The historic station building was added to the list of historical monuments in 1984 (Inventaire supplémentaire des Monuments historiques), but the 90 m long glass hall in the core of the U-shaped structure, dismantled in 1940, was no longer there. The work of the architect M. Darru and the engineer Pépin-le-Haleur was converted into a multiplex cinema called Mégarama with 17 cinemas and several restaurants around the turn of the millennium , and the neoclassical facade facing the Garonne was discreetly raised. The track systems that became available offered development opportunities for the new, central (upper class) district of La Bastide.
Web links
- Photo from 1965 (French)
- Historical overview (French)
Coordinates: 44 ° 50 ′ 29.9 " N , 0 ° 33 ′ 43.5" W.