Gare de La Rochelle is the main
railway station
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serving
La Rochelle
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. The station building, which includes a 45-metre-tall clock tower, was built in 1922 by
Pierre Esquié for the
CF de l'Etat replacing the older building. The railway station is well known for the "Danseurs au ballon" painted on the ceiling by Emile Sourice and Nicus Georget, 2 local artists. The station was renovated by
Franck Beck and
Luc Mouret in the early 1990s for the arrival of the
TGV Atlantique
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105 bi-current sets, numbered ...
.
La Rochelle is linked to
Poitiers,
Tours
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,
Bordeaux
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and
Paris
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as well as regional (
TER
Ter or TER may refer to:
Places
* River Ter, in Essex, England
* Ter (river), in Catalonia
* Ter (department), a region in France
* Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy
* Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno ob ...
) services to other towns in
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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, such as
Angoulême and
Niort
Niort (; Poitevin: ''Niàu''; oc, Niòrt; la, Novioritum) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department, western France. It is the prefecture of Deux-Sèvres.
The population of Niort is 58,707 (2017) and more than 177,000 people live in the ...
. There are both
TGV
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and
TER
Ter or TER may refer to:
Places
* River Ter, in Essex, England
* Ter (river), in Catalonia
* Ter (department), a region in France
* Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy
* Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno ob ...
rail services serving La Rochelle station.
The following train services serve the station as of January 2021:
*intercity services (''Intercités'') Nantes - La Rochelle - Bordeaux
References
External links
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Photograph from 1989
Railway stations in Charente-Maritime
Buildings and structures in La Rochelle
Buildings and structures completed in 1922
Railway stations in France opened in 1878
20th-century architecture in France
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