Gare de Nantes

Infobox Station
name= Gare de Nantes
type= Train


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image_caption= Southern entrance hall of the Gare de Nantes
address=27, boulevard de Stalingrad BP 34112 44041 Nantes cedex 1
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line= TGV Atlantique TER Pays de la Loire Interloire
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platform= 9
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levels= 1
tracks= 14 (11 through; 3 terminus)
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opened= 1968
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electrified= 25kV AC
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owned= RFF / SNCF
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passengers= 10 million/year
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map_locator=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.cite web | title = Gare de Nantes | publisher = Wikipedia France | url = http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gare_de_Nantes&oldid=32774217 | date = 2008-08-26 | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ]

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 inaguration of the TGV Atlantique.cite web | title = Gare de Nantes | publisher = Wikipedia France | url = http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gare_de_Nantes&oldid=32774217 | date = 2008-08-26 | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ]

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.cite web | title = Gare de Nantes | publisher = Wikipedia France | url = http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gare_de_Nantes&oldid=32774217 | date = 2008-08-26 | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.gares-en-mouvement.com/gare.jsp?langue=en&horloge=1&gare=frnte Nantes station official web site] (in English)