Gare de Toulouse-Matabiau

• Toulouse -Bayonne railway line
• Railway line Bordeaux - Sète
• Railway Brive- la -Gaillarde Toulouse

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The station Toulouse- Matabiau is a railway station in the French city of Toulouse, in the Haute- Garonne. With almost 20,000 travelers every day he is one of the busiest train stations in the south of France.

Until the mid-19th century Toulouse had no rail connection. In 1853, Émile Pereire founded and his brother Jacob, the railway company CF du Midi. Three years later opened the line from Agen to Toulouse in 1857 and then extended up to Bordeaux.

The current station building was built in 1903-1905, replacing the older and smaller buildings. The station took on the nickname of the surrounding community, Matabiau. It was built by Marius Toudoire, who had already built the stations Bordeaux Saint -Jean and Gare de Lyon.

Transport links

The train station is about regular daily TGV, Intercités and TER trains. From Toulouse consist transfer- distance connections like Paris (Gare Montparnasse and Gare d' Austerlitz ), Dijon, Lille, Bordeaux -Saint -Jean, Nice, Montpellier -Saint -Roch and Marseille -Saint -Charles. Regional trains of TER Midi -Pyrénées drive total in 14 directions. There is also a connection to the Métro Toulouse.

Expected from 2020 Toulouse is connected via the planned high- speed line Bordeaux -Toulouse directly to the TGV network. The journey time to Paris to thereby be reduced from now five hours to a little over three hours.