Gare de Toulouse-Matabiau

For the song performed by Zebda, see Matabiau (song).

Gare de Toulouse-Matabiau Railway
Main entrance of Matabiau station
Station statistics
Address	Boulevard de Marengo, 31000 Toulouse
Lines	Bordeaux–Sète railway, Toulouse–Bayonne railway, Brive-Toulouse railway, Toulouse-Auch railway, Metro Line A
Platforms	13 (1-11, A-B)
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Baggage check	No
Other information
Opened	1905
Owned by	SNCF

Toulouse-Matabiau is the main railway station in Toulouse, southern France. It is located in the city centre and connected to the Toulouse Metro. The station is situated on the Bordeaux–Sète railway, Toulouse–Bayonne railway, Brive-Toulouse (via Capdenac) railway and Toulouse-Auch railway. Direct trains run to most parts of France.

History

The station building

Toulouse waited until the middle of the 19th century for the railway to arrive in the city.

In 1853, Émile Pereire and his brother Jacob founded the CF du Midi. Three years later, the line from Bordeaux to Toulouse was opened, it was extended to Sète in 1857.^[1]

The current passenger building was built between 1903 and 1905, replacing an older and smaller building. The station took the name of the borough it was situated in, an area called Matabiau, named after the martyrdom of Saint Saturnin, mata-bios meaning kill the bull. It was designed by Marius Toudoire (who also designed Bordeaux Station) and was built with stone from the Roman city of Saintes. Like the Midi station in Bordeaux, Matabiau station bears 26 coats of arms on the front of the building of the 26 destinations that Midi served.

Some work was carried out on the building in 1938 prior to it being listed.^{[clarification needed]}

Layout

The station is centred around two main concourses at the front of the station directly linked to each other, with ticket offices, shops and cafés. Underpasses link these concourses to the platforms. The station is connected to the underground Marengo SNCF station on Line A of the Toulouse Metro, accessible from inside and just outside the station.

Destinations

Toulouse-Matabiau is situated at the heart of a six-branch star network of lines with both regional (TER) and national (TGV and Corail) services.

Toulouse is served by the following regional lines:

• Toulouse-Montauban
• Toulouse-Saint-Sulpice
• Toulouse-Carcassonne
• Toulouse-Tarbes and Bayonne
• Toulouse-Foix
• Toulouse-Auch

Several SNCF facilities are present near the station, including the old Toulouse-Raynal goods yard now a carriage and engine maintenance yard and the large Saint-Jory marshalling yard 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the north.

Train services

The following services currently call at Toulouse-Matabiau:

• high speed services (TGV) Lille - Bordeaux - Toulouse
• high speed services (TGV) Lille - Lyon - Toulouse
• high speed services (TGV) Bordeaux - Toulouse - Montpellier - Lyon - Dijon
• intercity services (Téoz) Paris - Vierzon - Limoges - Toulouse - Narbonne - Cerbère
• intercity services (Téoz) Bordeaux - Toulouse - Montpellier - Marseille - Nice
• intercity services (Intercités) Nantes - La Rochelle - Bordeaux - Toulouse
• intercity services (Intercités) Hendaye - Bayonne - Pau - Tarbes - Toulouse
• night services (Lunéa) Paris - Orléans - Souillac - Toulouse
• night services (Lunéa) Hendaye - Bayonne - Bordeaux - Toulouse - Marseille - Nice
• night services (Lunéa) Hendaye - Bayonne - Tarbes - Toulouse - Valence - Lyon - Geneva
• local service (TER Languedoc-Roussillon) Toulouse - Carcassonne - Narbonne
• local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Toulouse - Albi - Rodez
• local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Toulouse - Figeac - Aurillac
• local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Brive-la-Gaillarde - Cahors - Montauban - Toulouse
• local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Montauban - Toulouse
• local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Agen - Montauban - Toulouse
• local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Toulouse - Castres - Mazamet
• local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Toulouse - Castelnaudary - Carcassonne
• local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Toulouse - Colomiers - Auch
• local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Toulouse - Foix - Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg
• local service (TER Midi-Pyrénées) Toulouse - Saint-Gaudens - Tarbes - Pau

Series	Train Type	Route	Material	Notes
TGV	TGV	Paris-Montparnasse - Saint-Pierre-des-Corps - Poitiers - Angoulême - Bordeaux-Saint-Jean - Agen - Montauban - Toulouse-Matabiau	TGV Atlantique	4x per day
TGV	TGV	Toulouse-Matabiau - Carcassonne - Narbonne - Béziers - Montpellier-Saint-Roch - Nîmes - Avignon TGV - Aix-en-Provence TGV - Marseille-Saint-Charles

Preceding station		SNCF		Following station
Terminus		TGV		Carcassonne toward eastern France
Montauban toward Paris-Montparnasse		TGV		Terminus
Montauban toward Nantes		Intercités Arc Atl		Terminus
Saint-Gaudens toward Hendaye		Intercités Arc Atl
Montauban toward Paris-Austerlitz		Téoz		Castelnaudary toward Cerbère
Montauban toward Bordeaux-Saint-Jean		Téoz		Castelnaudary toward Marseille or Nice
Montauban toward Paris-Austerlitz		Lunéa		Terminus
Montauban toward Hendaye		Lunéa		Marseille-St-Charles toward Nice-Ville
Saint-Gaudens toward Hendaye		Lunéa		Valence-Ville toward Genève-Cornavin
Terminus		TER Languedoc-Roussillon 4		Labège-Innopole toward Narbonne
		TER Midi-Pyrénées 2		Montrabé toward Rodez
		TER Midi-Pyrénées 3		Saint-Sulpice-sur-Tarn toward Aurillac
Lacourtensourt toward Brive-la-Gaillarde		TER Midi-Pyrénées 14		Terminus
Route-de-Launaguet toward Montauban		TER Midi-Pyrénées 15
Lacourtensourt toward Agen		TER Midi-Pyrénées 16
Terminus		TER Midi-Pyrénées 17		Montrabé toward Mazamet
		TER Midi-Pyrénées 20		Montaudran toward Carcassonne
		TER Midi-Pyrénées 21		Toulouse-Saint-Agne toward Auch
		TER Midi-Pyrénées 22		Toulouse-Saint-Agne toward Latour-de-Carol
		TER Midi-Pyrénées 24		Toulouse-Saint-Agne toward Pau

Gallery

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  The western concourse

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  The eastern concourse

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  An X72500 at Toulouse-Matabiau

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  A selection of SNCF locos at Toulouse-Matabiau

References

1. ^ Direction Générale des Ponts et Chaussées et des Chemins de Fer (1869) (in French). Statistique centrale des chemins de fer. Chemins de fer français. Situation au 31 décembre 1869. Paris: Ministère des Travaux Publics. pp. 146–160. 

• Timetables TER Midi-Pyrénées (French)
• Toulouse-Latour-de-Carol timetable (English)
• Toulouse - Rodez Timetable (English)

Coordinates: 43°36′40″N 1°27′13″E / 43.61111°N 1.45361°E / 43.61111; 1.45361