Pamiers station ( French: ''Gare de Pamiers)'' is a railway station in

Pamiers Pamiers (; oc, Pàmias ) is a commune and largest city in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the most populous commune in the Ariège department, although it ...

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, France. The station is served by

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(local) services and

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night services operated by

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. The station is located at

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(KP) 64.220 on the

Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway The Portet-Saint-Simon - Puigcerdà railway is a secondary railway line in southwestern France. It connects Portet-sur-Garonne, 11 km south of Toulouse on the Toulouse–Bayonne railway, to Latour-de-Carol and Puigcerdà, towns located on eac ...

, between the open stations of Le Vernet-d'Ariège and

Varilhes Varilhes (; Languedocien: ''Varilhas'') is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France. Varilhes station has rail connections to Toulouse, Foix and Latour-de-Carol. Population Inhabitants of Varilhes are called ''Varilhois' ...

. The station was also the origin and branch location of the now closed Pamiers–Limoux railway.

History

It was built by the

Chemins de fer du Midi The Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi (. CF du Midi), also known in English as the Midi or Southern Railway, was an early French railway company which operated a network of routes in the southwest of the country, chiefly in the area between i ...

on 19 October 1861 and was the terminus of the line until it was extended to

Foix Foix (; oc, Fois ; ca, Foix ) is a commune, the former capital of the County of Foix. It is the capital of the department of Ariège as it is the seat of the Préfecture of that department. Foix is located in the Occitanie region of southwe ...

on 7 April 1862. The station used to be a junction onto the now closed Pamiers–Limoux railway from November 1898 to 1939. The station gained its room in 1903 and the line was electrified in 1927.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:Le réseau régional de transport public
TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022. *Night train (''Intercités de nuit'') ''Paris–Pamiers–Latour-de-Carol'' *Regional services (''TER Occitanie'') ''Toulouse–Foix–Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg''

References

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