Menton-Garavan 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 ...

Menton Menton (; , written ''Menton'' in classical norm or ''Mentan'' in Mistralian norm; it, Mentone ) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera, close to the Italian border. Me ...

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (; or , ; commonly shortened to PACA; en, Provence-Alps-French Riviera, italic=yes; also branded as Région Sud) is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, the far southeastern on the mainland. Its pref ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

History

The station is located 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. ...

line. The station is served by

TER Ter or TER may refer to: Places * River Ter, in Essex, England * Ter (river), in Catalonia * Ter (department), a region in France * Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy * Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno ob ...

(local) services operated by

SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi ...

. Trains operate between Cannes and Ventimiglia roughly every 30 mins. This is the last station before the border with Italy. As a result, during the 2015 influx of refugees in Europe, police executed a search for illegal immigrants on every train arriving from Italy.

Train services

The following services currently call at Menton-Garavan:Rechercher une fiche horaire
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. *local service (TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur) Grasse/Mandelieu - Cannes - Nice - Monaco - Ventimiglia

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Menton-Garavan TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur Railway stations in Alpes-Maritimes