Narbonne is a railway station in
Narbonne,
Occitanie Occitanie may refer to:
*Occitania, a region in southern France called ''Occitanie'' in French
*Occitania (administrative region)
Occitania ( ; french: Occitanie ; oc, Occitània ; ca, Occitània ) is the southernmost administrative region of ...
, France. The station opened on 22 April 1857 and is on the
Bordeaux–Sète railway
The railway from Bordeaux to Sète is an important French 476-kilometre long railway line, that connects the southwestern port city Bordeaux (on the Bay of Biscay) to the southern port Sète (on the Mediterranean) via Toulouse and Narbonne. The ...
and
Narbonne–Portbou railway
The Narbonne—Portbou railway is an important 104-kilometre long railway line that connects the city of Narbonne, France to northeastern Spain. The railway was built by the Compagnie des Chemins de fer du Midi. The first section that was opened i ...
lines. The station is served by
TGV
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(high speed),
Intercités (long distance, also night train) and
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 S ...
(local) services operated by the
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 ...
. The line was electrified through Narbonne in 1935.
The station is at an important 3-way junction, with both passenger and freight services coming from
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 ...
,
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 ...
,
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 ...
and Spain (via Portbou). Some trains avoid the station, by a curve between the Toulouse and Perpignan lines.
Train services
The following services currently call at Narbonne (2022):
Le réseau régional de transport public
TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022.
*High speed services (''TGV'')
**Paris–Valence–Nîmes–Montpellier–Perpignan–Barcelona
** Lyon–Nîmes–Montpellier–Perpignan–Barcelona
**Marseille–Nîmes–Montpellier–Perpignan–Barcelona–Madrid
**Lyon–Nîmes–Montpellier–Toulouse
*Intercity service (''Intercités'')
**Bordeaux–Toulouse–Montpellier–Marseille
*Night services (''Intercités de nuit'')
**Paris–Carcassonne–Narbonne–Cerbère
*Local service (TER Occitanie)
*Narbonne–Béziers–Montpellier–Nîmes–Avignon
**Toulouse–Carcassonne–Narbonne
**Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne
*Express service (TER Occitanie)
**Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Montpellier–Nîmes–Avignon
**Narbonne–Montpellier–Nîmes–Arles–Marseille
Gallery
File:Gare de Narbonne (quais).JPG, The station and the station roof
File:TER Gare de Narbonne.JPG, A TER train from 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 ...
to Portbou
Portbou () is a town in the Alt Empordà Comarques of Catalonia, county, in the Province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of people ().
Portbou is located near the France, French France–Spain border, border in the Costa Brava r ...
arrives at the station
File:TGV Gare de Narbonne.JPG, A TGV train for 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 ...
and Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
arrives at the station
References
Railway stations in Aude
Railway stations in France opened in 1857
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