The Gare de Dinan (Dinan Station) is a French railway station on the Lison to Lamballe line, in the town of
Dinan
Dinan (; ) is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2018, the former commune of Léhon was merged into Dinan.
Geography
Its geographical setting is exceptional. Instead of n ...
, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
It has included a railway museum since 1991. The station was opened in 1879 by the Western Railways Company.
It is now a station of the
Société nationale des chemins de fer français
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 traffic ...
Dol-de-Bretagne
Dol-de-Bretagne (, literally ''Dol of Brittany''; br, Dol; Gallo: ''Dóu''), cited in most historical records under its Breton name of Dol, is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine ''département'' in Brittany in northwestern France.
Geography
Dol-de ...
to
Lamballe
Lamballe (; ; Gallo: ''Lanball'') is a town and a former commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Lamballe-Armor.
It lies on the river Gouessant east-sout ...
, on which is Dinan is located, was commissioned on 29 December 1879 by the Western Railway Company.
The present station dates from 1931, and was designed by Georges-Robert Lefort.
It was part of the construction program launched by Raoul Dautry, general manager of the state railway administration, to renovate several of the company's stations.
Inside the hall there are two mosaics. One is a map of the railways in the region, and the other a map of the town of Dinan.
These mosaics have been registered as historical monuments since 21 November 1995.
Services
The station has a building with open ticket windows every day except Sunday and is also equipped with ticket vending machines.Gare de Dinan TER Bretagne, accessed 26 April 2022.
Dinan is served by TER Bretagne trains that terminate or originate in the station.
Trains come from or go to Dol-de-Bretagne on one side (TER line 17), or Saint-Brieuc on the other side (TER line 24).
Some of the trains go on to, or come from,
Lannion
Lannion ( ; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. It is a subprefecture of Côtes-d'Armor, the capital of Trégor and the center of an urban area of almost 60,000 inhabitants.
Climate
Lannion has a ...
or
Guingamp
Guingamp (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. With a population of 6,895 as of 2017, Guingamp is one of the smallest towns in Europe to have a top-tier professional football team: En Avant Guinga ...
.
There is only one round trip per day that does not end in this station, between Dol-de-Bretagne and Saint-Brieuc.
The station was served by a direct express train from Paris until 27 September 1986.
Connections
There is a parking lot.
The station is served by three road networks:
*Lines 1 and 2 of the Dinan urban bus (Dinanbus)
*Coaches of the Tibus departmental network on the following lines:
**No 10 between
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, on the English Channel coast.
The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Alli ...
and Dinan
**No 11 between Dinan and
Taden
Taden (; ; Gallo: ''Taden'') is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.
Population
Inhabitants of Taden are called ''Tadennais'' in French.
See also
*Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
The foll ...
**No 17 between Dinan and
Montauban-de-Bretagne
Montauban-de-Bretagne (, literally ''Montauban of Brittany''; , Gallo: ''Montauban'') is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, the former commune Saint-M'Hervon was merged into Montaub ...
*Coaches of the ILLENOO departmental network between
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
and Dinard.
Museum
The Railway Museum was opened in the station in 1991.Site du musée , consulté le 3 mars 2013.
It is managed by the Dinan Railway Society, and present the history of the regional railroad and material gathered by collectors association: models, costumes, posters, job referrals, model trains and a beautiful and very large scale model at 1:43 with several trains running in a large Dinan landscape that is rich in details.