Pont-Remy 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 ...

in the town

Pont-Remy Pont-Remy (; also ''Pont-Rémy''; pcd, Pont-d'Érmy) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography The commune is situated at the junction of the D901 and D183 roads at an ancient crossing point of the r ...

, Somme department, region

Hauts-de-France Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost Regions of France, region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its Prefectu ...

, northern

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. It is situated on the

Longueau–Boulogne railway The Longueau–Boulogne railway is a French railway which runs from a junction with the Paris-Lille railway at Longueau to the coastal port of Boulogne. A double track railway it is long. Until the start of the Eurostar service from London to Pa ...

, between

Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...

and

Abbeville Abbeville (, vls, Abbekerke, pcd, Advile) is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France. It is the chef-lieu of one of the arrondissements of Somme. Located on the river Somme, it was the capital of ...

. The station is served by

TER Hauts-de-France TER Hauts-de-France is the regional rail network serving the region of Hauts-de-France, northern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2017 from the previous TER networks TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais and T ...

trains (

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line). In 1903, the station witnessed the arrest of three leaders of the ''bande à Jacob'' (Jacob's band), a gang of anarchists (

Marius Jacob Alexandre Marius Jacob (September 29, 1879 – August 28, 1954), also known by the names Georges, Escande, Férau, Jean Concorde, Attila, and Barrabas, was a French anarchist illegalist. Biography Jacob was born in 1879 in Marseille to a work ...

, Pélissard and Félix Bour). After a car pursuit (one of the first in France) between

and this station, a shooting ensued in which a police agent (agent Anquier) was killed.''Cf. Abbeville d'autrefois, p. 75 and Alex Jacob
Porquoi jai cambriolé (''Who was cambriolé'')
at ''Infokiosques'', 1905 , posted on October 2005, retrieved on January 2007

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*M. Agache-Lechat ''Abbeville d'autrefois'', Abbeville, 1983, 240 pages, p 75 Railway stations in Somme (department) Railway stations in France opened in 1847 {{Picardy-railstation-stub

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