# Carcassonne station

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Railway station in Occitanie, France

Carcassonne Gare de Carcassonne General information Location 1 Avenue Maréchal Joffre 11000 Carcassonne France Coordinates 43°13′05″N 2°21′07″E / 43.218182°N 2.351826°E / 43.218182; 2.351826 Owned by RFF / SNCF Lines Bordeaux–Sète railway Carcassonne–Rivesaltes Other information Station code 87615286 History Opened 22 April 1857 Passengers 2024 1,248,583[1] Services Preceding station SNCF Following station Toulouse Terminus TGV inOui Narbonne towards Lyon-Part-Dieu Toulouse towards Bordeaux Intercités Narbonne towards Marseille Castelnaudary towards Paris-Austerlitz Intercités (night) Lézignan-Corbières towards Cerbère Preceding station TER Occitanie Following station Bram towards Toulouse 10 Lézignan-Corbières towards Narbonne Lézignan-Corbières towards Portbou 25 Bram towards Toulouse Terminus 29 Couffoulens-Leuc towards Limoux Location

**Carcassonne** is a railway station in [Carcassonne](/source/Carcassonne), [Occitanie](/source/Occitania_(administrative_region)), France, on the [Bordeaux–Sète](/source/Bordeaux%E2%80%93S%C3%A8te_railway) and Carcassonne–Rivesaltes lines. The station is served by [TGV](/source/TGV), [Intercités](/source/Intercit%C3%A9s) and [TER](/source/Transport_express_r%C3%A9gional) services operated by [SNCF](/source/SNCF).

## History

The station built in 1857 by the Railway Company du Midi is located to the north of the ville basse near the [Canal du Midi](/source/Canal_du_Midi) and extended when the Compagnie du Midi[2] opened a second line with the stretch from Carcassonne to Limoux on 15 July 1876,[3] which was extended to Quillan 1 July 1878.[3]

## Architecture

The main building is in the [classical](/source/Classical_architecture) style and flanked by two wings and a clock. The station hall is decorated with a fresco (8m x 3m) installed in 1995 the painter [Jean Camberoque](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Camberoque&action=edit&redlink=1) representing the land of the Aude. The Station Buffet features a mural painted in 1996 representing the actor [Philippe Noiret](/source/Philippe_Noiret) waiting for the train on the station platform.

## Train services

The following services currently call at Carcassonne:[4]

- High speed services (*TGV*) Toulouse–Montpellier–Lyon

- Intercity services (*Intercités*) Bordeaux–Toulouse–Montpellier–Marseille

- Night services (*Intercités*) Paris–Narbonne–Cerbère

- Regional service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse–Carcassonne–Narbonne

- Local service (TER Occitanie) Carcassonne–Limoux

## Gallery

		- A TGV service to Eastern France

		- A TER train to Quillan waiting in the station

		- A Train passing through the station

## References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Gare de Carcassonne](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gare_de_Carcassonne).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-freq_1-0)** ["Fréquentation en gares - SNCF Open Data"](https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/frequentation-gares/table/?q=87615286). *ressources.data.sncf.com* (in French). Retrieved 11 March 2026.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FranceLois1864_2-0)** France, *Bulletin des lois de la République franc̜aise*, Imprimerie nationale, 1864, pp408 [archive](https://books.google.com/books?id=aS0tAAAAYAAJ) (15 January 2012).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Pourageaux2005p76_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Pourageaux2005p76_3-1) Guillaume Pourageaux, article Rail Passion no 97, 2005, pp76

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Le réseau régional de transport public](https://mmt.vsct.fr/sites/default/files/swt/COCT/2021-11/A3%20CARTE%20R%C3%89GION%20g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rique_0.pdf), TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022.

## External links

- [Carcassonne station](https://www.garesetconnexions.sncf/fr/gares-services/frccf) at "Gares & Connexions", the official website of [SNCF](/source/SNCF) (in French)

- [Timetable search](https://m.ter.sncf.com/occitanie/se-deplacer/fiches-horaires) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220611211305/https://m.ter.sncf.com/occitanie/se-deplacer/fiches-horaires) 11 June 2022 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), TER Occitanie

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