The Gannes station (''Gare de Gannes'') is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

on the

Paris-Nord The Gare du Nord (; English: ''station of the North'' or ''Northern Station''), officially Paris-Nord, is one of the six large mainline List of Paris railway stations, railway station termini in Paris, France. The station accommodates the trai ...

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

line located in the commune of

Gannes Gannes () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. It is around 35 km south of Amiens and 80 km north of Paris. It was the site of an air crash in the Second World War. In the early hours of 18 June 1944, Avro Lancaster ...

in the

Oise Oise ( ; ; pcd, Oése) is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called ''Oisiens'' () or ''Isariens'', after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had a population of 829,419 ...

department,

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. The station is served by

TER Hauts-de-France TER Hauts-de-France is the regional rail network serving the region of Hauts-de-France, northern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2017 from the previous TER networks TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais and T ...

trains. The station was first opened in 1846 by the

Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord The Chemins de fer du Nord''French locomotive built in 1846''

(Nord Railway Company). The station formerly had a

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, used by the surrounding small rural industry. The station was closed in 1940, and was reopened at the

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. The station building was abandoned and torn down in the 1970s.

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Railway stations in Oise Railway stations in France opened in 1846 {{Picardy-railstation-stub

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