Gare de Nantes

Gare de Nantes
Train
File:Flickr - IngolfBLN - Nantes - Gare (41).jpg Entrance hall of the Gare de Nantes
Location	27, boulevard de Stalingrad BP 34112 44041 Nantes cedex 1
Coordinates
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
History
Opened	1968
Electrified	25kV AC
Traffic
Passengers	10 million/year

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.

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) Quimper - Nantes - La Rochelle - Bordeaux - Toulouse
• 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
• Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Rennes - Redon - Nantes
• Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Le Croisic - Saint-Nazaire - Nantes
• Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Angers
• Local services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Clisson - La Roche-sur-Yon - Les Sables-d'Olonne
• Tram-Train services (TER Pays de la Loire) Nantes - Clisson - Cholet
• 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 - La Chapelle - Châteaubriant

Preceding station		SNCF		Following station
Angers-Saint-Laud toward Paris-Montparnasse		TGV		La Roche-sur-Yon toward Les Sables-d'Olonne
Angers-Saint-Laud toward eastern France		TGV		Terminus
Savenay toward Quimper		Intercités		La Roche-sur-Yon toward Bordeaux or Toulouse
Terminus		Intercités		Angers-Saint-Laud toward Lyon-Perrache
Savenay toward Quimper		TER Bretagne 3		Terminus
Ancenis toward Orléans		TER Centre-Val de Loire 1		Terminus
Terminus		TER Pays de la Loire 1		Chantenay toward Le Croisic
		TER Pays de la Loire 2		Savenay toward Rennes
Thouaré-sur-Loire toward Angers-Saint-Laud		TER Pays de la Loire 4		Terminus
Terminus		TER Pays de la Loire 6		Saint-Sébastien-Pas-Enchantés toward Cholet
		TER Pays de la Loire 8		Saint-Sébastien-Pas-Enchantés toward Les Sables-d'Olonne
		TER Pays de la Loire 10		Rezé-Pont-Rousseau toward Pornic
		TER Pays de la Loire 11		Rezé-Pont-Rousseau toward Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie

References

• Timetables TER Pays de la Loire (French)

Internal link

• Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway

External links

• Nantes station official web site (in English)