{{Short description|Railway station in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France}} {{Infobox station | name = Brive-la-Gaillarde | style = SNCF | symbol_location = fr | symbol = rail | type = | image = Brive-la-Gaillarde - Gare de Brive-la-Gaillarde - 20160528.jpg | image_size = | image_caption = Brive-la-Gaillarde railway station | address = [[Brive-la-Gaillarde]], [[Corrèze]],<br />[[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]], [[France]] | coordinates = {{coord|45|9|9|N|1|31|42|E|region:FR|display=inline,title}} | line = [[Orléans–Montauban railway]] <br /> [[Coutras–Tulle railway]] <br /> [[Brive-la-Gaillarde - Toulouse (via Capdenac) railway|Brive-Toulouse (via Capdenac)]] <br /> [[Nexon-Brive-la-Gaillarde railway|Nexon-Brive railway]] | platform = | tracks = | opened = 17 September 1860 | closed = | code = {{Uic8}} | map_locator = | passengers = 1,269,198<ref name=freq>{{Cite web |title=Fréquentation en gares - SNCF Open Data |url=https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/frequentation-gares/table/?q={{Uic8}} |access-date=11 March 2026 |website=ressources.data.sncf.com |language=fr}}</ref> | pass_year = 2024 | services_collapsible = yes | services = {{Adjacent stations |system1=SNCF |line1=Intercités|type1=Paris–Toulouse|left1=Uzerche|right1=Souillac |system5=TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine |line5=22|left5=Allassac |line6=23|left6=Varetz |line7=27|right7=Aubazine-Saint-Hilaire |line8=32|left8=La Rivière-de-Mansac|right8=Aubazine-Saint-Hilaire |system14=TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |line14=67|right14=Turenne |system21=TER Occitanie |line21=7|right21=Turenne |line22=19|right22=Gignac-Cressensac}} }}
'''Brive-la-Gaillarde''' is a [[railway station]] serving the town of [[Brive-la-Gaillarde]], [[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]], [[France]]. The station opened on 17 September 1860 and is located on the [[Orléans–Montauban railway]], [[Coutras–Tulle railway]], [[Brive-la-Gaillarde - Toulouse (via Capdenac) railway|Brive-Toulouse (via Capdenac) railway]] and [[Nexon-Brive-la-Gaillarde railway|Nexon-Brive railway]].
The station is served by the Intercités avec réservation obligatoire (Intercity), Intercités sans réservation obligatoire (long distance) and [[Transport express régional|TER]] (local) services operated by [[SNCF]]. It is an important railway junction, with lines towards Périgueux, Limoges via Saint-Yrieix, Limoges via Uzerche, Ussel, Aurillac, Rodez and Montauban.
==History==
The Brive railway station was commissioned on 17 September 1860 by the [[Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans]] (PO), when it opened to operate the [[Gare de Périgueux|Périgueux]] to Brive section. It is built on the southern edge of the town of Brive.<ref name="LeRail">{{Cite book|title=Le rail en France : Le Second Empire, t. 2 (1858-1863)|last1=Palau|first1=François|last2=Palau|first2=Maguy|year=2011|isbn=2-950-94212-1|pages=233|language=fr}}</ref>{{rp|113}} The first train, with authorities, arrived on 31 August 1860 while the station was still under construction and the official opening took place on Sunday 30 September 1860.<ref name=LeRail/>{{rp|114}} A ceremony and festivities occurred at the station and in the city, on a platform installed in the centre of the station with speeches from officials including the Prefect and Barthélemy Eyrolles, mayor of Brive, before a blessing by the bishop of Tulle, in front of an estimated crowd of 20,000 people. That same year there were eight railway men employed on the station site,<ref name="Arch">{{Cite web|url=http://archives.brive.fr/Docs/BM211_mai2009.pdf|title=L’arrivée du chemin de fer à Brive|website=Archives Brive|language=fr|access-date=4 August 2019}}</ref> which included a modest building built of a wood frame and bricks.<ref name="Banaudo">{{Cite book|title=Sur les rails du Limousin|last1=Banaudo|first1=José|last2=Lanoue|first2=Fabrice|year=2003|isbn=9782844942043|edition=Éditions de Borée|pages=163|language=fr}}</ref>{{rp|60}} On 10 November 1862, the company commissioned the next section, Brive to [[Gare de Capdenac|Capdenac]].<ref name=LeRail/>{{rp|176}}
Brive became a branch station with the opening of the Brive line to [[Gare de Tulle|Tulle]] on 28 August 1871 by the PO Company.<ref name=Banaudo/>{{rp|50}} As the original station building was not large enough, the company decided to dismantle it and transfer it to [[Gare de Rocamadour-Padirac|Rocamadour]] and build a new, larger stone and brick building with a metal canopy. It completed the site construction with, to the west towards Périgueux, a depot designed for twelve locomotives.<ref name=Banaudo/>{{rp|60}} The company completed its network with the commissioning of the Brive line to [[Gare de Nexon|Nexon]] on 20 December 1875.<ref name=Banaudo/>{{rp|75}} The early 1890s marked the end of the extension of the stations with the commissioning, again by the PO Company, of a line from Brive to [[Gare de Souillac|Souillac]] on 1 June 1891, and from [[Gare de Limoges-Bénédictins|Limoges]] to Brive via [[Gare d'Uzerche|Uzerche]] on 1 July 1893.<ref name=Banaudo/>{{rp|4}}
In 2013, Brive railway station underwent a number of renovations and redevelopments to improve its role as a "multimodal hub".<ref name="Gare">{{Cite web|url=http://www.brivemag.fr/gare-de-brive-les-quais-enfin-accessibles-par-ascenseurs/|title=Gare de Brive : les quais enfin accessibles par ascenseurs – brivemag|date=14 November 2013|last=Malsoute|first=Marie Christine|language=fr-FR|access-date=9 August 2019}}</ref> The Northern forecourt was completely redesigned with the installation of car drop-off zones, a bus station, taxi lanes and bike parking.<ref name=Gare/> The underground subway was extended so that it serves the Southern forecourt (the redesigned forecourt which becomes a second entrance/exit).<ref name=Gare/> Accessibility is also improved with the installation of lifts to access the platforms, the renovation of the bridge with the installation of lifts at both ends, the change of signage in the station, the installation of new electronic information screens (one in the lobby, one on the Northern Forecourt and two on the Southern Forecourt), the installation of tactile paving and strips on the platform's and the installation of guard railings with indications for pathways and steps on the stairs.<ref name=Gare/> In 2017, according to SNCF estimates, the station's annual traffic was 748,463 passengers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/frequentation-gares/table/?sort=nom_gare|title=Fréquentation en gares|website=data.sncf.com|language=fr|access-date=9 August 2019}}</ref>
<gallery> File:Bossot et Guionie 72 - BRIVES - La Gare.jpg|{{center|Around 1910}} File:Guronie 12 - BRIVE - La gare.jpg|{{center|Around 1920}} </gallery>
==Services for travellers== ===Station=== The SNCF station has a passenger building, with ticket offices open daily. It is also equipped with automated kiosks for the purchase of tickets. Known as a ''Access plus'' station, facilities, equipment and services are available to people with reduced mobility. An underground subway, accessed by stairs and lifts allows one to cross the tracks and access to the platforms.
===Services=== The passenger services are provided by the [[Intercités]] and [[TER]] services. Brive railway station has seen renovated Coral trains, now known as Intercités (formerly Teoz), since 2004. The increasing involvement of the regions in the management of regional express transport has allowed a slight optimisation of the TER service in all Nouvelle-Aquitaine stations. While awaiting construction of the [[LGV Poitiers–Limoges]], a [[TGV]] service linking Lille-Europe to Brive was set up in 2007, but was cancelled at the end of May 2016, and the LGV Poitiers-Limoges project cancelled in 2017.
===Other transport services=== There is a bike parking area and two car parks for the vehicles. The station is served by buses: from the Libéo network (lines 3, 7, and N-Shuttle),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.libeo-brive.fr/ftp/document/plan-du-reseau-bus-libeo-2019.pdf|title=Libeo}}</ref> the ''Réseau Departmental de la Corrèze'' (intercity network) (lines 1,2,3,4,5,8 and 9)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://transports.nouvelle-aquitaine.fr/sites/default/files/2018-06/TR19_CARTE_RESEAU.pdf|title=Carte Reseau|website=Transports Nouvelle-Aquitaine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007223107/https://transports.nouvelle-aquitaine.fr/sites/default/files/2018-06/TR19_CARTE_RESEAU.pdf|archive-date=2018-10-07|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the network ''Les bus du Lot'' (line 24).
==Train services== The following services currently call at Brive-la-Gaillarde:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mmt.vsct.fr/sites/default/files/swt/CNAQ/2021-11/RNA-Carte%20Reseau%20TER-A0-0221HDV3_tcm78-165262_tcm78-165261_0.pdf|title=Plan du réseau TER en Nouvelle-Aquitaine|website=www.ter.sncf.com|language=fr|access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref><ref>[https://m.ter.sncf.com/occitanie/se-deplacer/fiches-horaires Timetable search], TER Occitanie</ref><ref>[https://mmt.vsct.fr/sites/default/files/swt/COCT/2021-11/A3%20CARTE%20R%C3%89GION%20g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rique_0.pdf Le réseau régional de transport public], TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022.</ref><ref name=rech>[https://m.ter.sncf.com/auvergne-rhone-alpes/se-deplacer/fiches-horaires Rechercher une fiche horaire], TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, accessed 14 May 2022.</ref><ref name=plan>[https://mmt.vsct.fr/sites/default/files/swt/CARA/2021-11/Carte_reseau_TER_Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes_40x60_1.pdf Réseau TER et cars Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes], TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, accessed 14 May 2022.</ref>
* intercity services (''Intercites'') Paris – Vierzon – Limoges – Toulouse * local service (TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Brive-la-Gaillarde – Aurillac * local service (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Limoges – Saint-Yrieix – Brive-la-Gaillarde * local service (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Périgueux – Thenon – Brive-la-Gaillarde * local service (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Limoges – Uzerche – Brive-la-Gaillarde * local service (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Brive-la-Gaillarde – Tulle – Ussel * local service (TER Occitanie) Brive-la-Gaillarde – Figeac – Rodez * local service (TER Occitanie) Brive-la-Gaillarde – Cahors – Montauban – Toulouse
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://m.ter.sncf.com/nouvelle-aquitaine TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine] {{in lang|fr}} * {{GaresConnexions website}}
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