Bannalec (

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: ''Gare de Bannalec'') is a

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Bannalec Bannalec (; br, Banaleg) is a commune in the Finistère department in the Brittany region in northwestern France. Bannalec station has rail connections to Quimper, Lorient and Vannes. Bannalec is twinned with the Irish town of Castleisland. Geog ...

Finistère Finistère (, ; br, Penn-ar-Bed ) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.

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. The station was opened on 8 September 1863, and is located at

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(KP) 653.987 on the

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. Today, the station is served by

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History

The construction of a railway station in

was realized by the

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in the early 1860s. The station was inaugurated on 7 September 1863, alongside those from

Lorient Lorient (; ) is a town (''Communes of France, commune'') and Port, seaport in the Morbihan Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in western France. History Prehistory and classical antiquity Beginn ...

Quimper Quimper (, ; br, Kemper ; la, Civitas Aquilonia or ) is a commune and prefecture of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. Administration Quimper is the prefecture (capital) of the Finistère department. Geography The ...

. Normal train operations by the

commenced the next day. The station consists of a passenger building constructed by the French architect Phidias Vestier. In 2018, the

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recorded 22 562 passenger movements through the station.

Train services

The following services currently call at Bannalec: *local services (

TER Bretagne TER Bretagne (stylized as ''TER BreizhGo'' since 2018) is the TER regional rail network serving the administrative region of Brittany, in north-west France. Network The rail and bus network as of April 2022:Quimper Quimper (, ; br, Kemper ; la, Civitas Aquilonia or ) is a commune and prefecture of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. Administration Quimper is the prefecture (capital) of the Finistère department. Geography The ...

Quimperlé Quimperlé (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. Geography Quimperlé is in the southeast of Finistère, 20 km to the west of Lorient and 44 km to the east of Quimper. Historically, it belon ...

Vannes Vannes (; br, Gwened) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France. It was founded over 2,000 years ago. History Celtic Era The name ''Vannes'' comes from the Veneti, a seafaring Celtic people who lived ...

Gallery

File:Gare-Bannalec-2010.jpg, Station platforms and shelters in 2010. File:Gare-Bannalec-ancien-BV.jpg, Passenger building prior to renovation. File:Gare-Bannalec-dir-Quimper.jpg, Station platforms and old passenger building.

References

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