Cannes station or ''Cannes-Voyageurs'' ( French: ''Gare de Cannes'') is the main

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for the French Southern city of

Cannes Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...

. It is situated on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway.

History

The station opened on 10 April 1863 when the line from

Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...

Cagnes-sur-Mer Cagnes-sur-Mer (, literally ''Cagnes on Sea''; ) is a French Riviera town near Nice that is in the Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in southeastern France. Geography Cagnes-sur-Mer is a town in southeaste ...

opened to passengers. The station was a small elegant building with a rooftop spanning both tracks of the main line. In 1870 the line from

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is opened. The engine depot was moved to La Bocca in 1880 and a

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opened in 1883. With the lengthening of trains, the old station proved to be too small for the growing town. Work on a new station started in 1962. The station building was subsequently replaced by the present structure in 1975. The line and the station platforms are, per 2023, now underground across most of the city center as it was covered by multi lanes city expressway.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:Rechercher une fiche horaire
TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, accessed 16 May 2022. *High speed services (''TGV'') Paris - Avignon - Aix-en-Provence - Cannes - Antibes - Nice *High speed services (''TGV'') Bruxelles-Midi - Lille-Europe - Airport Charles de Gaulle - Lyon - Avignon - Aix-en-Provence - Marseille - Cannes - Nice *High speed services (''TGV'') Nancy - Strasbourg - Besançon - Dijon - Lyon - Avignon - Marseille - Cannes - Nice *High speed services (''TGV'') Lyon - Marseille - Nice *Regional services (''TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur'') Marseille - Toulon - Les Arcs–Draguignan - Cannes - Nice *Local services (''TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur'') Les Arcs–Draguignan - Cannes - Nice *Local services (''TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur'') Grasse/Mandelieu - Cannes - Nice - Monaco - Ventimiglia Please notice that this station, even served by TGV cars, is NOT high speed as the specific track, needed for high speed up to 320 km/h goes only to Marseilles St Charles station. All trains from Marseille to the Italian border (Menton) run at slow speed.

Bus connections

The station is connected by many lines such as : * * Envibus : 18 * ZOU06! : 81, 620, 660, 663, 664

References

External links

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Gare SNCF de: "Cannes"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cannes Gare Railway stations in Alpes-Maritimes Railway stations in France opened in 1863 TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur

History

Train services

Bus connections

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