Amifontaine station ( French: ''Gare d'Amifontaine'') is a

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located in the

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Amifontaine Amifontaine () is a commune in the department of Aisne in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. Geography Amifontaine is located some 20 km southeast of Laon and 40 km northwest of Rheims. The Autoroute des Anglais (A26, E17) ...

, in the

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Aisne Aisne ( , ; ; pcd, Ainne) is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne. In 2019, it had a population of 531,345.France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. The station is situated at

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(KP) 27.949 on the Reims-Laon railway. It is served by

TER Grand Est TER Grand Est or TER Fluo is the regional rail network serving the region of Grand Est, northeastern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2016 from the previous TER networks TER Alsace, TER Lorra ...

trains between

Reims Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast of Paris on the Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne. Founded by ...

and

Laon Laon () is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. History Early history The holy district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance. In ...

(line C10) operated by the

SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi ...

.Le réseau TER Fluo
TER Grand Est, accessed 28 April 2022. In 2018, the

recorded 15,470 passenger movements through the station.

History

When the Compagnie des chemins de fer des Ardennes opened the 52 km Reims-Laon railway in 1857, the railway halt in

had yet to be established. The station was still absent from the line in 1861. However, by 1868, the French writer

Adolphe Joanne Adolphe Joanne (born ''Adolphe-Laurent Joanne''; 15 September 1813 in Dijon, France – 1 March 1881 in Paris) was a French geographical writer and author of travel books. Work In 1836 Joanne was a lawyer in Paris but he soon turned to journa ...

indicated the station was in operation in his book ''Itinéraire général de la France : Vosges et Ardennes''.{{Cite book, last=Joanne, first=Adolphe, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQUtakGFuroC, title=Itinéraire général de la France: Vosges et Ardennes, date=1868, publisher=L. Hachette, isbn=, location=, pages=671, language=fr At the time the station served a population of 437 in

only on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

References

Railway stations in Aisne Railway stations in France opened in the 1860s