Carcassonne is a railway station in

Carcassonne Carcassonne (, also , , ; ; la, Carcaso) is a French fortified city in the department of Aude, in the region of Occitanie. It is the prefecture of the department. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Carcassonne is located in the plain of the Au ...

, Occitanie, France, on the Bordeaux–Sète and Carcassonne–Rivesaltes lines. The station is served by

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and

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services operated by SNCF.

History

The station built in 1857 by the Railway Company du Midi is located to the north of the ville basse near the Canal du Midi and extended when the Compagnie du MidiFrance, ''Bulletin des lois de la République franc̜aise'', Imprimerie nationale, 1864, pp40
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(15 January 2012). opened a second line with the stretch from Carcassonne to Limoux on 15 July 1876,Guillaume Pourageaux, article Rail Passion no 97, 2005, pp76 which was extended to Quillan 1 July 1878.

Architecture

The main building is in the classical style and flanked by two wings and a clock. The station hall is decorated with a fresco (8m x 3m) installed in 1995 the painter Jean Camberoque representing the land of the Aude. The Station Buffet features a mural painted in 1996 representing the actor

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waiting for the train on the station platform.

Train services

The following services currently call at Carcassonne:Le réseau régional de transport public
TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022. *High speed services (''TGV'') Toulouse–Montpellier–Lyon *Intercity services (''Intercités'') Bordeaux–Toulouse–Montpellier–Marseille *Night services (''Intercités'') Paris–Narbonne–Cerbère *Regional service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse–Carcassonne–Narbonne *Local service (TER Occitanie) Carcassonne–Limoux

Gallery

File:Gare de Carcassonne 2.JPG, A TGV service to Eastern France File:Gare de Carcassonne 1.JPG, A TER train to Quillan waiting in the station File:Gare de Carcassonne 3.JPG, A Train passing through the station

References

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