Nantes station
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.
Gare de Nantes | |
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.jpg.webp) 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 |
| 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 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 87481002 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1968 |
| Electrified | 25 kV AC |
| Passengers | |
| 10 million/year | |
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):
- High speed services (TGV) Nantes - Angers - Le Mans - Paris
- High speed services (TGV) Le Croisic - Saint-Nazaire - Nantes - Paris
- High speed services (TGV) Nantes - Le Mans - Massy - Lyon - Marseille / Montpellier
- High speed services (TGV) Nantes - Le Mans - Massy - Strasbourg / Lille
- Intercity services (Intercités) Nantes - La Rochelle - Bordeaux
- Intercity services (Intercités) Nantes - Tours - Bourges - Lyon
- Regional services (TER Bretagne) Quimper - Lorient - Vannes - Redon - Nantes
- Regional services (Interloire) Le Croisic - Saint-Nazaire - Nantes - Angers - Saint-Pierre-des-Corps - Orleans
- Regional services (TER Pays de la Loire) Rennes - Nantes
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Redon - Nantes
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Le Croisic - Saint-Nazaire - Nantes
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Angers - Le Mans
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Ancenis
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Clisson - La Roche-sur-Yon - Les Sables-d'Olonne
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Sainte-Pazanne - Pornic
- Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Sainte-Pazanne - Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie
- Tram-Train services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Clisson - Cholet
- Tram-Train services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - La Chapelle - Châteaubriant
| Preceding station | SNCF | Following station | ||
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toward Paris-Montparnasse | TGV | Terminus | ||
toward eastern France | TGV | Terminus | ||
toward Paris-Montparnasse | TGV | Terminus | ||
| Terminus | Intercités | toward Bordeaux |
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| Terminus | Intercités | toward Lyon-Perrache |
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Savenay toward Quimper | TER Bretagne 3 | Terminus | ||
Ancenis toward Orléans | TER Centre-Val de Loire 2.6 | Terminus | ||
| Terminus | TER Pays de la Loire 1 | Chantenay toward Le Croisic |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 2 | Savenay toward Redon |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 2 | Terminus |
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Ancenis toward Angers-Saint-Laud | TER Pays de la Loire 4 | Terminus | ||
Thouaré-sur-Loire toward Ancenis | TER Pays de la Loire 5 | Terminus | ||
| Terminus | TER Pays de la Loire 6 | Clisson toward Cholet |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 8 | Clisson toward Les Sables-d'Olonne |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 9 | toward La Rochelle |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 10 | toward Pornic |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 11 | toward Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 21 | Ancenis toward Le Mans |
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| TER Pays de la Loire 28 | Ancenis toward Rennes |
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| TER Pays de la Loire T1 | Haluchère-Batignolles toward Châteaubriant |
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| TER Pays de la Loire T2 | toward Clisson |
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gare de Nantes. |
- Nantes station official web site (in English)