Gare Habib Bourguiba Monastir is the main railway station in Monastir, Tunisia. It is operated by the and named for

Habib Bourguiba Habib Bourguiba (; ar, الحبيب بورقيبة, al-Ḥabīb Būrqībah; 3 August 19036 April 2000) was a Tunisian lawyer, nationalist leader and statesman who led the country from 1956 to 1957 as the prime minister of the Kingdom of T ...

. Trains from the station run on the electrified, metre-gauge

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line and serve

Mahdia Mahdia ( ar, المهدية ') is a Tunisian coastal city with 62,189 inhabitants, south of Monastir and southeast of Sousse. Mahdia is a provincial centre north of Sfax Sfax (; ar, صفاقس, Ṣafāqis ) is a city in Tunisia, located ...

to the south, or

Sousse Sousse or Soussa ( ar, سوسة, ; Berber:''Susa'') is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf ...

, via

Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport International de Monastir–Habib Bourguiba, AIMHB, ar, مطار الحبيب بورقيبة الدولي) is an airport serving Monastir and Sousse areas in Tunisia. T ...

, to the north. Trains in both directions pass through the adjacent Faculté Monastir, a triangular junction station. Other trains serve

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.Timetable at station

References

Railway stations in Tunisia Railway stations opened in 1984 Monastir Governorate {{Tunisia-geo-stub