Marseille-Blancarde station
Marseille-Blancarde station (French: Gare de Marseille-Blancarde) is a French railway station located in the city of Marseille (district of La Blancarde), in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
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| Location | Place de la gare 13005 Marseille Bouches-du-Rhône France |
| Elevation | 50 m |
| Owned by | SNCF |
| Operated by | SNCF |
| Line(s) | Marseille–Ventimiglia railway Marseille-Blancarde–Marseille-Prado railway |
| Platforms | 5 |
| Tracks | 6 + service tracks |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers (2018) | 424,347 |
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TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Fret SNCF | |
It is owned by France's national state-owned railway company SNCF and served by TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur regional trains.
According to the SNCF, 424,347 passengers travelled through the station in 2018.[1]
History
The train station was the stopping point of some Marseille trains linking Paris to the Côte d'Azur (the Paris-Côte d'Azur and the Blue Train in particular), which avoided the creep in Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles by borrowing the connection of the Carthusians (service restored at the end of 2015). The existence of a tram line (line 68) linking the Blancarde station in the heart of the city by the Chave boulevard and the tunnel under the Plain facilitated its use. The removal of this has considerably diminished the importance of this station.
From 2009, the station was the subject of improvement works in the redevelopment of the line between Blancarde and Aubagne. Signaling work is being done around the station to modernize the infrastructure on the route leading to Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles. Most of the civil engineering work in this area is concentrated upstream between the station and that of La Pomme.
Train services
- Regional services (TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur 1) Marseille ... Toulon ... Hyères[2]
References
- "Fréquentation en gares". ressources.data.sncf.com (in French). Retrieved 2020-05-16.
- "fiche_L01.indd" (PDF). SNCF.
| Preceding station | SNCF | Following station | ||
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Terminus | TER PACA 1 | La Pomme toward Hyères |