Bordeaux-Saint-Jean station

Location
	Bordeaux Saint-Jean Location within Bordeaux

Bordeaux Saint-Jean
Bordeaux Saint-Jean
SNCF and tram
	Gare de Bordeaux-Saint-Jean front
General information
Location	Rue Charles-Domercq, 33800; Bordeaux; France
Coordinates	44°49′32″N 0°33′20″W / 44.8256°N 0.5556°W
Owned by	RFF / SNCF
Line(s)	Paris–Bordeaux railway; Bordeaux–Sète railway; Bordeaux–Irun railway
Tracks	15
Other information
Station code	87581009
History
Opened	1898
Passengers
	11.5 million
Location
Location
	Bordeaux Saint-Jean Location within Bordeaux

Bordeaux-Saint-Jean (Occitan: Bordèu Sent Joan) or formerly Bordeaux-Midi is the main railway station in the French city of Bordeaux. It is the southern terminus of the Paris–Bordeaux railway, and the western terminus of the Chemins de fer du Midi main line from Toulouse. The station is the main railway interchange in Aquitaine and links Bordeaux to Paris, Sète, Toulouse Matabiau and Spain.

The station building is situated in the centre of Bordeaux at the end of the Cours de la Marne, and has a large metallic trainshed, built by Gustave Eiffel. Since the arrival of the TGV the station has been renovated and upgraded with modern equipment, but has kept its original features.

History

The station was built in 1855 under the name Gare du Midi (Midi station) by the Chemins de fer du Midi, as the western terminus of its main line linking Bordeaux and Sète. It used to be less important than the former Bordeaux-Bastide station connecting Bordeaux with Paris on the right bank of the river Garonne.^[1]

A long metal viaduct, built by Gustave Eiffel in 1860, allowed trains to cross the river and progressively Bordeaux-Saint-Jean became the Bordeaux main station, needing larger infrastructures.

The current station building opened in 1898. As well as Midi trains, trains from the Paris-Orléans and the État companies called there. The station was built by M Toudoire and S Choron. It includes a large metallic trainshed 56 m wide and covers 17,000 m², one of the largest in Europe, conceived Daidé&Pillé and constructed by G. Eiffel.^[1]

Eiffel two-track bridge became a bottleneck, but it was replaced only in 2008 by a new four-track railway bridge next to it, to prepare the St-Pierre-des-Corps-Bordeaux high speed line opening in 2017.^[2]

Train services

Current services

The following services call at Bordeaux-Saint-Jean as of January 2021:^[3]

^ indicates not all trains stop there

High speed services (TGV)
- Paris - Bordeaux - Dax - Lourdes - Tarbes
- Paris - Bordeaux - Dax - Bayonne - Biarritz - Hendaye
- Paris - Bordeaux - Agen - Toulouse
- Paris - Bordeaux - Arcachon
- Paris - St-Pierre-des-corps (Tours) - Poitiers - Angoulême - Bordeaux
- Lille - Aéroport CDG - Tours - Bordeaux
- Strasbourg - Marne la Vallée Chessy - St-Pierre-des-corps (Tours) - Bordeaux
Discount high speed services (Ouigo TGV)
- Paris Montparnasse - St-Pierre-des-corps (Tours) - Poitiers - Angoulême - Bordeaux - Agen - Montauban - Toulouse
Intercity services (Intercités)
- Bordeaux - Toulouse - Montpellier - Marseille
- Nantes - La Rochelle - Bordeaux
local services (TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- Bordeaux - Libourne - Angoulême
- Bordeaux - Saintes - La Rochelle
- Bordeaux - Libourne - Périgueux - Limoges
- Bordeaux - Libourne - Périgueux - Brive-la-Gaillarde - Ussel
- Bordeaux - Libourne - Bergerac - Sarlat-la-Canéda
- Bordeaux - Arcachon
- Bordeaux - Lesparre - Le Verdon
- Bordeaux - Langon - Marmande - Agen
- Bordeaux - Morcenx - Mont-de-Marsan
- Bordeaux - Dax - Bayonne - Hendaye
- Bordeaux - Dax - Pau - Tarbes

Projected services

High speed service (Eurostar) London St Pancras - Bordeaux in 2022^[4]^[5]
Intercity service Bordeaux-Lyon in mid 2022 by a new private societary operator Railcoop^[6]

Twinning

In October 2019, Gare de Bordeaux-Saint-Jean was twinned with London St Pancras International in England. The association was made in the hope that a high speed service could connect the two stations, and was announced at a ceremony headed by Claude Solard, Director General of SNCF.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Point, François-Xavier (1998). La gare de Bordeaux Saint-Jean : Histoire d'une centenaire (in French). Éditions Sud-Ouest. ISBN 2-87901-290-2.
^ "Que va devenir la passerelle Eiffel". 20minutes. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
^ "Plan du réseau TER en Nouvelle-Aquitaine" (PDF). www.ter.sncf.com (in French). Retrieved 19 April 2022.
^ "SNCF wants London – Bordeaux by 2022". International Railway Journal.
^ ^a ^b "London St Pancras twins with Bordeaux Saint-Jean to promote direct service". Railway Gazette International. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
^ "French cooperative _targets Bordeaux – Lyon open-access from 2022". International Railway Journal.

External links

Gare de Bordeaux Saint-Jean

Preceding station	SNCF		Following station
Agen towards Toulouse		TGV inOui	Angoulême towards Montparnasse
Dax towards Hendaye or Tarbes			Massy TGV towards Montparnasse
Facture-Biganos towards Arcachon			Angoulême towards Montparnasse
Terminus			Angoulême towards Lille-Flandres
		TGV	Libourne towards Lille-Flandres
		Intercités	Marmande towards Marseille
Jonzac towards Nantes		Intercités	Terminus
Preceding station	Ouigo		Following station
Angoulême towards Tourcoing		Grande Vitesse	Terminus
Poitiers towards Montparnasse			Terminus
Montparnasse Terminus			Agen towards Toulouse
Preceding station	TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine		Following station
Terminus		13	Cenon towards Angoulême
Cenon towards La Rochelle		15	Terminus
Terminus		31	Cenon towards Limoges
		32	Cenon towards Ussel
		33	Cenon towards Sarlat-la-Canéda
		41.1U	Cenon towards Coutras
		41.2U	Pessac towards Arcachon
		42	Mérignac-Arlac towards Le Verdon
		43.1U	Cenon towards Saint-Mariens–Saint-Yzan
		43.2U	Bègles towards Langon
		44	Beautiran towards Agen
		45	Pessac towards Mont-de-Marsan
		51	Pessac towards Hendaye
		52	Pessac towards Tarbes

[:1-1] Point, François-Xavier (1998). La gare de Bordeaux Saint-Jean : Histoire d'une centenaire (in French). Éditions Sud-Ouest. ISBN 2-87901-290-2.

[2] "Que va devenir la passerelle Eiffel". 20minutes. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

[3] "Plan du réseau TER en Nouvelle-Aquitaine" (PDF). www.ter.sncf.com (in French). Retrieved 19 April 2022.

[4] "SNCF wants London – Bordeaux by 2022". International Railway Journal.

[:0-5] "London St Pancras twins with Bordeaux Saint-Jean to promote direct service". Railway Gazette International. Retrieved 19 October 2019.

[6] "French cooperative _targets Bordeaux – Lyon open-access from 2022". International Railway Journal.

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