Montluel station (

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: ''Gare de Montluel'') is a French

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located in the

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

Montluel Montluel (; frp, Montluèl) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. It is situated on the outskirts of Lyon. The inhabitants are known as ''Montluistes''. Population Personalities * (1743-1818), Catholic Bishop of Quimper ...

Ain Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where it ...

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in the

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. Established at an elevation of 198 meters, the station is located at

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(KP) 25.195 on the

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, between the stations of La Boisse and

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. As of 2022, the station is owned and operated by the

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and served by

TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the regional rail network serving the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, central and eastern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2017 from the previous TER networks TER Au ...

trains.

History

The section of

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between

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

and Ambérieu opened on 23 June 1856. Initially from Lyon-Saint-Clair station, as the bridge across the

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was not yet finished, the line traveled along to the river until the

Miribel station Miribel station ( French: ''Gare de Miribel'') is a French railway station located in the commune of Miribel, Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is located at kilometric point (KP) 16.616 on the Lyon-Geneva railway, between ...

and extending until Montluel. On 7 January 2011, a 16-year old teenager, Antoine Mauresa, was fatally wounded by a

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train at the station. Following the incident, the safety of the station (which had no pedestrian overpass or underpass at the time), was widely called into question. The mayor of

, Jacky Bernard, supported the construction of a separated passage-way. The fully accessible passenger overpass was ultimately completed the year following, in 2012. In 2019, the

estimated that 509,568 passengers traveled through the station.

Services

Passenger services

Operated by the

, the station has a passenger building equipped with automatic vending machines for purchasing tickets. Since 2012, a fully accessible passenger overpass has allowed for movement from one platform to another. File:Gare de Montluel (Ain, France) en août 2018 - 10.jpg File:Passerelle de la gare de Montluel (mai 2019).jpg File:Gare de Montluel (Ain, France) en août 2018 - 14.jpg

Train services

Montluel station is served by

trains running between Lyon-Part-Dieu or Lyon-Perrache and

Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ambérieu-en-Bugey (; frp, Ambèriô) is a commune in the department of Ain, region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. It is the largest town in the arrondissement of Belley and the capital of the Canton of Ambérieu-en-Bugey which consists of ...

. Connections are possible from Ambérieu-en-Bugey station towards

Culoz Culoz ( or ) is a former Communes of France, commune in the Ain Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. On 1 January 2023, it was merged into the new commune of Culoz-Béon. Geography The town, which is ...

, Genève-Cornavin,

Évian-les-Bains Évian-les-Bains (), or simply Évian ( frp, Èvian, , or ), is a Communes of France, commune in the northern part of the Haute-Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region, Southeastern France. ...

Annecy Annecy ( , ; frp, Èneci or ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nicknamed ...

, and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet. File:Gare de Montluel (Ain, France) en août 2018 - 12.jpg, Pedestrian overpass File:Gare de Montluel (Ain, France) en août 2018 - 11.jpg, Tracks and platforms. File:Gare de Montluel (Ain, France) en août 2018 - 7.jpg,

train at the platform

Intermodality

The station is equipped with bicycle storage facilities.

References