Saint-Pierre-des-Corps station

Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps
Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps
Location	Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire; France
Coordinates	47°23′9″N 0°43′24″E / 47.38583°N 0.72333°ECoordinates: 47°23′9″N 0°43′24″E / 47.38583°N 0.72333°E
Owned by	RFF
Operated by	SNCF
Line(s)	TER, Intercités, TGV
Platforms	2
Tracks	3
Other information
Station code	87571240; IATA: XSH

Saint-Pierre-des-Corps station (French: gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps) is a railway station serving the town of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps and the Tours agglomeration, Indre-et-Loire department, western France. It is situated on the Paris–Bordeaux railway and the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway.

History[]

Given its strategic position on the Loire, the entire Tours / Saint-Pierre-des-Corps railway complex was the target of bombing during the Second World War. In 1990 the passenger building, which by then no longer existed, was rebuilt following the opening of the LGV Atlantique, to accommodate TGV and Aqualys from 2001. This latter service is still provided, but was re-marketed as the Intercités brand.

In 2018, SNCF estimated annual usage of this station is 3,457,033 passengers and if non-passengers are included it rises to 4,321,292.^[1]

Passenger services[]

Reception[]

The SNCF station has a passenger building, with ticket offices, open every day.^[2] It is equipped with automatic machines for the purchase of tickets.

Services[]

Saint-Pierre-des-Corps is served by TGV and Ouigo, Intercités, Interloire, Rémi Express, TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Aléop (formerly TER Pays de la Loire trains) and rail shuttles between Tours and Saint-Pierre-des-Corps. However, the waiting room is located on the central and main platform, which makes it necessary to leave the station and to enter it.

The following services currently call at Saint-Pierre-des-Corps:

intercity services (Intercités) Nantes - Tours - Bourges - Lyon
intercity services (Intercités) Caen - Alençon - Le Mans - Tours
intercity services (Intercités) Paris - Orléans - Blois - Tours

Preceding station	SNCF	Following station
Vendôme-Villiers-sur-Loir TGV toward Paris-Montparnasse	TGV	toward Bordeaux-Saint-Jean
Vendôme-Villiers-sur-Loir TGV toward Paris-Montparnasse	TGV	Tours Terminus
Amboise toward Paris-Austerlitz	Intercités	Tours Terminus
Château-du-Loir toward Caen	Intercités	Tours Terminus
Tours toward Nantes	Intercités	Vierzon-Ville toward Lyon-Perrache
Château-du-Loir toward Le Mans	TER Pays de la Loire 25	Tours Terminus
Tours Terminus	TER Centre-Val de Loire 2.1	toward Orléans
Tours Terminus	TER Centre-Val de Loire 2.2	toward Vierzon-Ville
Blois toward Orléans	TER Centre-Val de Loire 2.6	Tours toward Nantes

Other services[]

A park for bikes and parking for vehicles are provided.

Freight traffic[]

Until 2007 the station also included a marshalling yard, on a large site that extended all the way to the neighbouring commune of La Ville-aux-Dames. This station is open to freight service.

References[]

^ "Fréquentation en gares". ressources.data.sncf.com (in French). Retrieved 27 March 2020.
^ "Saint-Pierre-des-Corps Gares & Connexions". www.garesetconnexions.sncf. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

External links[]

Media related to Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps at Wikimedia Commons

Timetables TER Centre (in French)

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[1] "Fréquentation en gares". ressources.data.sncf.com (in French). Retrieved 27 March 2020.

[2] "Saint-Pierre-des-Corps Gares & Connexions". www.garesetconnexions.sncf. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

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