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

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serving the

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Avignon Avignon (, , ; or , ; ) is the Prefectures in France, 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 Communes of France, commune had a ...

, in

Vaucluse Vaucluse (; 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.

, France. It is on the

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 sect ...

Description

The

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was constructed in 1866 according to the plans of the architect Louis-Jules Bouchot, 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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trains from

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

Gare de Lyon The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon (), is one of the seven 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 ...

Provence Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which stretches from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the France–Italy border, Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterrane ...

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and

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. Many other TGV trains stop at the Avignon TGV 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
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