Gare de Bordeaux-Saint-Jean

  • Railway line Bordeaux - Irun ( 0.0 km )
  • Railway line Paris -Bordeaux (km 583.8 )
  • Railway Chartres Bordeaux ( 612.3 km )
  • Railway line Bordeaux - Sète ( 0.0 km )

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The station Bordeaux Saint -Jean is a railway station in the French town of Bordeaux in the Gironde department. With almost 30,000 travelers every day he is the strongest frequency station in the southwest of France.

The station was opened by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi in 1898. In addition to trains of CF du Midi also stopped trains of the companies Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and the Chemin de Fer de l' État.

The station building is located at the south end of the city center of Bordeaux, at the end of the Cours de la Marne. The station has a large roof which was built by Gustave Eiffel. It is 56 meters wide and measures about 17,000 square meters.

Since is the station of the TGV trains approached, which is the case since 1988, the entire station was renovated and modernized.

North of the station the initial leg is out to the station on a double-track bridge over the Garonne. This bridge was rebuilt by September 2010. On this occasion, it was expanded to four tracks.

Transport links

The train station is about regular daily TGV, Corail and TER trains. From Bordeaux consist transfer- distance connections like Paris (Gare de Montparnasse), Strasbourg, Brussels, Nantes, Lyon, Toulouse, Marseille and Nice.

With the completion of the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique, the journey time to Paris is shortened from three hours to two hours and then ten minutes.

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