Saint-Roch is the main railway station in

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

, France. The station was formerly known as Gare de Montpellier, but since March 2005 it has been named after

Saint Roch Roch (lived c. 1348 – 15/16 August 1376/79 (traditionally c. 1295 – 16 August 1327, also called Rock in English, is a Catholic saint, a confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he is especially invoked a ...

, a native of the city who was born in the 14th century. Saint-Roch is one of the principal transport hubs of

Languedoc-Roussillon Languedoc-Roussillon (; oc, Lengadòc-Rosselhon ; ca, Llenguadoc-Rosselló) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016, it joined with the region of Midi-Pyrénées to become Occitania. It comprised five departments, and ...

, situated between the stations of

Nîmes Nîmes ( , ; oc, Nimes ; Latin: ''Nemausus'') is the prefecture of the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France. Located between the Mediterranean Sea and Cévennes, the commune of Nîmes has an estimated population of 148,5 ...

and

Sète Sète (; oc, Seta, ), also historically spelt ''Cette'' (official until 1928) and ''Sette'', is a commune in the Hérault department, in the region of Occitania, southern France. Its inhabitants are called ''Sétois'' (male) and ''Sétoises' ...

. The station building comprises a listed front face and a passenger building laid out on three levels. What was the bus station above the tracks is now a short-stay car park. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the station has been in the middle of an

urban regeneration Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighte ...

project involving old railway property called the ''Nouveau Saint-Roch''. Until December 2013, there was a

EuroCity EuroCity, abbreviated as EC, is a cross-border train category within the European inter-city rail network. In contrast to trains allocated to the lower-level "IC" (InterCity) category, EC trains are international services that meet 20 criteri ...

service between Montpellier,

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

and Cartagena in Spain. This service was cut when high-speed services were extended to Barcelona and

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

Destinations

Due to its position in the south of France and on the lines from Paris and Spain, many international trains stop in Montpellier. From Montpellier train services depart to major French cities such as: Paris,

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 ...

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

Perpignan Perpignan (, , ; ca, Perpinyà ; es, Perpiñán ; it, Perpignano ) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the ...

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

and

Besançon Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerl ...

. International services operate to Spain:

and

Train services

The station is served by the following services:Le réseau régional de transport public
TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022. *High speed services (''TGV'') **Paris–Valence–Nîmes–Montpellier (– Béziers) **Paris–Lyon–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Narbonne–Perpignan **Paris–Valence–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona **Lyon–Nîmes–Montpellier–Perpignan–Barcelona **Lille–Paris-CDG Airport–Lyon–Nîmes–Montpellier **Lyon–Nîmes–Montpellier–Toulouse *High speed services (''AVE'') **Marseille–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona–Saragosse–Madrid *High speed services (''TGV Ouigo'') **Marne-la-Vallée–Lyon Saint-Exupéry–Nîmes–Montpellier *Intercity services (''Intercités'') **Bordeaux–Toulouse–Montpellier–Nîmes–Marseille *Regional services (''TER Occitanie'') **Narbonne–Béziers–Montpellier–Nîmes–Avignon **Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Montpellier–Nîmes–Avignon **Narbonne–Montpellier–Nîmes–Arles–Marseille

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* Railway stations in Hérault Buildings and structures in Montpellier Railway stations in France opened in 1839 {{Languedoc-railstation-stub

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