Gare de La Ciotat 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 ...
serving the town
La Ciotat
La Ciotat (; oc, label= Provençal Occitan, La Ciutat ; in Mistralian spelling ''La Ciéutat''; 'the City') is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southern France. It is the southeasternmost ...
,
Bouches-du-Rhône
Bouches-du-Rhône ( , , ; oc, Bocas de Ròse ; "Mouths of the Rhône") is a department in Southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the south. Its prefecture and ...
department, southeastern
France
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. It is situated on the
Marseille–Ventimiglia railway
The Marseille–Ventimiglia railway (French language, French: ''Ligne de Marseille-Saint-Charles à Vintimille''; Italian language, Italian: ''Ferrovia Marsiglia-Ventimiglia'') is a France, French-Monaco, Monégasque-Italy, Italian railway line. ...
, and is served by trains between Marseille, Toulon and Hyères.
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TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, accessed 16 May 2022.La carte du réseau TER SUD
TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, accessed 16 May 2022. It is known for the 1895 film ''L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat
''L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat'' (translated from French into English as ''The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station'', ''Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat'' (US) and ''The Arrival of the Mail Train'', and in the United Kingdom as ' ...
'', directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière
The Lumière brothers (, ; ), Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their ''Ciném ...
.
References
Railway stations in Bouches-du-Rhône
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