Gare d'Avignon TGV

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The Avignon TGV station is a long-distance train station in the southern French city of Avignon, in the Vaucluse. It is located about three kilometers south of the center of Avignon and is located on the high-speed line between Lyon and Marseille Méditerranée. The station went on 10 June 2001 with the high-speed line in operation. Since the station has two centrally located transit tracks, they can be passed from the TGV trains at high speeds. The train station has direct connections, including by Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nice, Lille, Brussels, Strasbourg and Geneva. Also introduced on March 23, 2012 TGV train pair Frankfurt -Marseille stops here. In the summer months, an additional pair of trains Thalys from Amsterdam to Marseille wrong.

Connection

The station was built as a typical TGV train station near a high-speed line. Therefore, it has no connection to the rest of the rail network. North of the station, the viaduct bifurcation of the high-speed lines of Lyon towards Nîmes on the one hand and towards Marseilles via Avignon and from Avignon to Marseille via Nîmes is the other.

Travelers come by car or by bus, to the train station. A bus ( navette TGV ) commutes regularly between the TGV station and the old town (stop Avignon Main Post: Avignon Poste).

Since December 2013 there is a rail link ( Virgule d' Avignon ) between the Avignon Centre train station and the TGV station. This was since 27 June 2011 at the building and significantly reduce travel time between the two stations, formerly of 10-17 minutes to 5 minutes. The cost is 37.25 million euros. During the week, per day, 35 trains per direction and result in a hour, during rush hour runs every 20 minutes a train.

Track system

The station consists of two located in the center drive-through tracks, to which both sides followed by a platform track. The two platform tracks have on the eastern side ( direction Marseille) only a protection switch. On the west side lead the two points that fulfill the function of a protective switch in sidings for train service vehicles, which in turn are equipped with a protective soft against the station platform. After the two platform tracks are out on the west side back into the drive-through tracks and turnouts connecting the main lines has happened, the route branches with high-speed switches in the two branches to Paris and Nîmes and then performs the Rhone bridges ( Viaducs d' Avignon ). On both sides of the railway station is situated in the drive-through tracks a simple Weichenverbindung. About this can be seen from the railway station here, be changed from the northern to the southern route track. The eastern Weichenverbindung the main lines located in the coverage of Avignon.