Abbeville is a

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serving the town of Abbeville,

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department, in

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, northern

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. It is on the Longueau–Boulogne railway and is the terminus of the Abbeville–Eu railway. It is served principally by

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trains.Plan du réseau
TER Hauts-de-France, accessed 14 April 2022.

History

The Gare d'Abbeville was built by the Nord company in 1856 in regional seaside style. The station was formerly linked to

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by a line which ran between Abbeville and Fives via Béthune and

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. The Abbeville - Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise section closed in 1968. It was also formerly served by a

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local interest line to

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, part of the

Réseau des Bains de Mer The Réseau des Bains de Mer (RBM) was a group of five metre gauge railways centred on Noyelles-sur-Mer, with a total route length of some . It was a part of the ''Chemins de fer départementaux de la Somme''. Three of the lines are still open ...

of the ''Chemins de fer départementaux de la Somme'', which opened on 19 June 1892 and closed to passenger traffic in 1947. The building, which is timber faced with red brick, was declared a historic monument on 28 December 1984. It was the last wooden station built in France until the Meuse TGV in 2007. In 2006 Abbeville station won second prize in the special category for stations of the annual

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contest, an award to recognise particularly attractive passenger accommodations and landscaping and which takes into account the integration of the station into its surroundings. In 2007 the Communauté de communes de l'Abbevillois undertook renovations to convert the station into a more modern and welcoming multimodal facility.

Station

The building has a staffed ticket window as well as ticket machines and offers handicapped-accessible services.

Services

The station is served by

trains (

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line). Train services to Le Tréport were discontinued in 2018.SNCF : Abbeville - Le Tréport, symbole de la mort des petites lignes
France Info, 27 May 2018.

References

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