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°W / 47.21667; -1.54167Coordinates: 47°13′0″N 1°32′30″W / 47.21667°N 1.54167°W / 47.21667; -1.54167
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):

Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
TGV
toward Les Sables-d'Olonne
toward eastern France
TGVTerminus
Savenay
toward Quimper
Intercités
toward Bordeaux or Toulouse
TerminusIntercités
Savenay
toward Quimper
TER Bretagne 3Terminus
Ancenis
toward Orléans
TER Centre-Val de Loire 1Terminus
TerminusTER Pays de la Loire 1
Chantenay
toward Le Croisic
TER Pays de la Loire 2
Savenay
toward Rennes
Thouaré-sur-Loire
TER Pays de la Loire 4Terminus
TerminusTER Pays de la Loire 6
toward Cholet
TER Pays de la Loire 8
toward Les Sables-d'Olonne
TER Pays de la Loire 10
toward Pornic
TER Pays de la Loire 11

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