The gare d'Avignon-Centre (Avignon Central railway station) is a

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serving the

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Avignon Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region of So ...

, in

Vaucluse Vaucluse (; oc, Vauclusa, label= Provençal or ) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019.Paris–Marseille railway The railway from Paris to Marseille is an 862-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the southern port city of Marseille, France, via Dijon and Lyon. The railway was opened in several stages between 1847 and 1856, when the final secti ...

Description

The

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was constructed in 1866 according to the plans of the architect

Louis-Jules Bouchot Louis Jules César "Louis-Jules" Bouchot (12 August 1817 – 15 August 1907) was a 19th-century French architect responsible in particular for the construction of the Nice and Milan railway stations. Biography Louis-Jules Bouchot was born 12 a ...

, and is similar to its counterpart at Valence-Ville, which was also designed by Bouchot. The building's symmetrical

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is neoclassical in style, with five bays and a

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surmounting the

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Train traffic

A wide range of trains use Avignon-Centre station, including

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TGV The TGV (french: Train à Grande Vitesse, "high-speed train"; previously french: TurboTrain à Grande Vitesse, label=none) is France's intercity high-speed rail service, operated by SNCF. SNCF worked on a high-speed rail network from 1966 to 19 ...

trains from

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

Gare de Lyon The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris-Gare-de-Lyon, is one of the six large mainline railway stations in Paris, France. It handles about 148.1 million passengers annually according to the estimates of the SNCF in 2018, with SNCF railways and RER D ...

Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ...

Côte d'Azur The French Riviera (known in French as the ; oc, Còsta d'Azur ; literal translation " Azure Coast") is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is usually considered to extend fro ...

and

Languedoc The Province of Languedoc (; , ; oc, Lengadòc ) is a former province of France. Most of its territory is now contained in the modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of approximately ...

. Many other TGV trains stop at the

Avignon TGV Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label= Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. Located on the left bank of the river Rhône, the commune had a ...

station. The services include:Rechercher une fiche horaire
TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, accessed 16 May 2022. *local service (TER Occitanie) Narbonne - Béziers - Montpellier - Nîmes - Avignon *express service (TER Occitanie) Cerbère - Perpignan - Narbonne - Montpellier - Nîmes - Avignon *local service (TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Lyon - Valence - Avignon *express service (TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Lyon - Valence - Avignon - Marseille *local service (TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Avignon - Cavaillon - Miramas - Marseille *local service (TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Avignon - Carpentras *local service (TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Avignon - Arles - Miramas - Marseille

References

External links

Site officiel SNCF/TER PACA
{{DEFAULTSORT:Avignon-Centre Buildings and structures in Avignon Railway stations in France opened in 1860 Railway stations in Vaucluse