The gare de Pau is a
railway station
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in
Pau,
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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,
France
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. The station is located on the
Toulouse-Bayonne and
Pau-Canfranc railway lines. The station is served by
TGV
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(high speed trains),
Intercités de Nuit
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Between 2013 and 2 ...
(night trains),
Intercités
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SNCF established the Intercités brand in January ...
(long distance) and
TER
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Places
* River Ter, in Essex, England
* Ter (river), in Catalonia
* Ter (department), a region in France
* Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy
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(local) services operated by the
SNCF
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.
The station is situated in the valley of the
Gave de Pau
The Gave de Pau () is a river of south-western France. It takes its name from the city of Pau, through which it flows. The river is long ( including the Gaves réunis), and its source is at the Cirque de Gavarnie in the Pyrenees mountains. The ...
, some below the city centre. It is linked to the city centre by the
Funiculaire de Pau
The Funiculaire de Pau, or Pau Funicular, is a funicular railway in the city of Pau in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques ''département'' of southwestern France. It links the Boulevard des Pyrénées, on the level of the city centre and the Château ...
, which climbs out of the valley to the
Boulevard des Pyrénées
The Boulevard des Pyrénées is a boulevard in the town of Pau in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques ''département'' of south-west France. With buildings on its northern side only, and a terrace overlooking the valley of the Gave de Pau to its south, th ...
and
Place Royale. It is also served by buses and taxis.
Train services
The following services currently call at Pau:
*TGV services Paris - Saint-Pierre-des-Corps - Bordeaux - Dax - Pau - Tarbes
*intercity services (''Intercités'') Hendaye - Bayonne - Pau - Tarbes - Toulouse
*local service (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Bordeaux - Dax - Pau - Tarbes
*local service (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Bayonne - Pau - Tarbes
*local service (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Pau - Oloron-Sainte-Marie - Bedous
*local service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse - Saint-Gaudens - Tarbes - Pau
References
Railway stations in Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Railway stations in France opened in 1863
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