Nurieux station (

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: ''Gare de Nurieux'') 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 ...

Nurieux-Volognat Nurieux-Volognat () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 393 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the fo ...

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

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ...

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. Established at an elevation of 484 meters, the station is located at

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(KP) 33.468 on the

Ligne du Haut-Bugey The Haut-Bugey line (french: Ligne du Haut-Bugey) (also nicknamed ''Lignes des Carpates'') is a railway line in France. It is 65 kilometres in length and connects Bourg-en-Bresse with Bellegarde, travelling through the Jura Mountains. For a ce ...

, between the stations of Cize—Bolozon and Brion—Montréal-la-Cluse.

History

In 2019, the

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estimated that 20,701 passengers traveled through the station.

Services

Passenger services

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Intermodality

References

{{coord, 46.18421, 5.53271, format=dms, type:railwaystation_region:FR, display=title TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Railway stations in Ain Railway stations in France opened in 1877