Chartres station (French: ''Gare de Chartres'') is a

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serving the town of

Chartres Chartres () is the prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. It is located about southwest of Paris. At the 2019 census, there were 170,763 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Chartres (as d ...

in the

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region of

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. It is situated on the

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. The station is part of the

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rail network and is served by TER Centre-Val de Loire and

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trains.

History

The original station was built in 1849.

Current building

The station has been renovated five times since 1870. In 1933, the current building was constructed under the authority of Raoul Dautry, the ''directeur général'' of the Chemins de fer de l'État. It was designed by the French architect

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. Since 2018, the station has been at the centre of a vast renewal of the city's urban core. The project is set to be finished by 2030.

References

Railway stations in Eure-et-Loir TER Centre-Val de Loire Gare Railway stations in France opened in 1849 {{centre-railstation-stub