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Ossun station (French: ''Gare d'Ossun'') is a railway station in Ossun, in the
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Hautes-Pyrénées Hautes-Pyrénées (; Gascon/Occitan: ''Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus'' awts piɾeˈnɛʊs es, Altos Pirineos; ca, Alts Pirineus alts piɾiˈneʊs English: Upper Pyrenees) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. ...
, and in the region of
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, France. The station is located on the Toulouse–Bayonne railway line. The station was opened in 1866 by the Chemins de fer du Midi. The station is served by
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(local) services operated by the
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. This is the closest station to the
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Location

The station is situated at altitude. Ossun station is part of the railway region of Toulouse, and is at PK 166,450 along the line from Toulouse–Bayonne, between the stations of Tarbes and Lourdes. The station has two platforms. Platform 1 has an effective length of and platform 2 has an in-use length of .


History

The Chemins de fer du Midi opened the station of Ossun, between those of
Juillan Juillan (; oc, Julhan) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France. Air Méditerranée has its head office on the property of Tarbes–Lourdes–Pyrénées Airport, in Juillan.Adé, on 9 April 1866. This was just before the opening of the rest of the railway line from Tarbes to Lourdes on 20 April 1866.


Train services

The station is served by regional trains towards Bordeaux,
Bayonne Bayonne (; eu, Baiona ; oc, label= Gascon, Baiona ; es, Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine re ...
, Pau and Tarbes.Plan du réseau
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See also

*
List of SNCF stations in Occitanie This article contains a list of current SNCF railway stations in the Occitanie region of France. Ariège (09) * Andorre-L'Hospitalet * Ax-les-Thermes * Les Cabannes * Foix * Luzenac-Garanou * Mérens-les-Vals * Pamiers * Saint-Jean-de-Verge ...


References

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