Park of Rennes
The principal station of Rennes , located at the South of the downtown area, was built in 1857 and was supplemented later underground serving the ways. It was entirely refitted in 1992 per T. Berre for the arrival of Atlantic TGV; a real whole of offices, services, a second access by the South, and of the correspondences with the other transport systems prolong it (coach station, access direct to the subway) and review of it exchange impossible to circumvent of the city.
Construction, installations and access
Old station (which gives to North on the downtown area), it remains some arcades on quay and the wings on which the new hall travellers rests: a triangle of steel and glass built with the top of the ways. Of a surface of 6 000 m ², the higher level accommodate a whole of trade thus, the billeteries, the hall of waiting and information…This new hall, which gives access to the whole of the ways by escalators or staircases, is also served by elevators; it also communicates with a new access traveller by an open flagstone (the new station Southern), built with an housing stock of offices to the top of it (1994) and a hotel (2002) as well as a new automobile access with underground car park to improve of it the service road and accessibility in the city by avoiding the center.
Northern side (downtown area), the old station refitted at the ground floor gives access to the underground also serving the whole of the ways, has an direct access to the subway (line has ). The old place of the station in North became a flagstone almost entirely pedestrian also giving access to the taxis (also accessible southern part), with the urban buses (ways reserved with controlled access), like at the new close coach station for the departmental and international correspondences of bus.
Served lines
TGV
The station is connected directly in TGV to Paris in 2:03 (via Mans with service road of Vitré and Laval), and allows direct interconnections via Northern lines TGV Roissy, Lille and London, or TGV South-eastern towards Lyon and Marseilles. West coast, the Atlantique line is prolonged towards Brest (via Saint-Brieuc) or Quimper (via Redon and Vannes). Northern side, line TGV serves also Saint-Malo.
FOR THE THIRD TIME
Line FOR THE THIRD TIME Brittany (train):- line 1 Rennes - Brest (deserted Lamballe, St-Brieuc, Morlaix)
- line 2: Rennes - Valves - Lorient - Quimper
- line 4: Rennes - Redon - Nantes
- line 6: Rennes - Glazed
- line 7: Rennes - Montreuil-on-Island
- line 8: Rennes - Messac
- line 9: Rennes - Chateaubriant
- line 10: Rennes - Brohinière (via Station of the Hermitage-Mordelles, Montfort-on-Meu and Montauban-of-Brittany
- line 13: Rennes - Fraud-of-Brittany - Saint-Malo (line which serves also the station Pontchaillou (CHR) in the North of Rennes in complement of the subway)
- line 14: Rennes - Laval - Mans (via Cesson-Sévigné, Chateaubourg, Glazed)
- line 15: Rennes - Redon
- line 16: Rennes - Saint-Brieuc
- line 17: Rennes - Fraud-of-Brittany - Dinan
- line 33: Rennes - Caen
lines of FOR THE THIRD TIME (in coach, coach station which is next to SNCF railway station):
- line 30: Rennes - Mount-Saint-Michel
- line 35: Rennes - Pontivy
The code AITA of the station is ZFJ .
Future installations
The station of Rennes is located in the middle of a district which should know deep urban modifications in the next decades.Towards 2012, the station will be the starting point of LGV Brittany-Country of the Loire which will put it at 1:23 of Paris.
It will become also the multimode pole most important of the metropolis of Rennes, with the arrival of the second underground line B and the construction project adjacent of a regional station, dedicated to the traffic FOR THE THIRD TIME. This project must answer the very big rise of the traffic on the network FOR THE THIRD TIME Breton (+ 11% between 2004 and 2005 only for the traffic périurbain of Rennes), like on the public grid system itself (+ 70% over 2001-2005 on the metropolis, + 60% for the departmental connections), that is to say the highest rises of durable France, but also with the development objectives (a reduction of almost 60% of the automobile traffic, which requires a rise of 14% to 17% on behalf of public transport public): a development where FOR THE THIRD TIME, already integrated in the diagram of urban transport of the metropolis, will play an increasingly dominating role.
Within the framework of the internal service road of the metropolis of Rennes, old small stations of the surrounding communes will be rehabilitated to supplement the interconnection with the subway and the public offering of urban transport in the department, and it is planned to open (or reopen) additional local railway stations in Rennes and in periphery for the passenger traffic (the “halts travellers”, such that of the CHR in the district of Rennes of Pontchaillou, and that of Saint-Gregoire in North, or that under consideration of Cesson-Sévigné in the East, and majority of the communes of the metropolis currently only crossed by the traffic large-lines or only served for freight), with installations of infrastructure necessary not to obstruct the remainder of the regional rail traffic or national in full growth. The central station of Rennes will then play fully its part of multimode pole.
The station will be also the starting point or of correspondence to directly serve the future international airport Large-West (project under development following the declaration of public utility published on April 13rd, 2007), built with Our-Lady-of-Moors to 70 km in the South of Rennes in collaboration with the agglomeration of Nantes - Saint-Nazaire.
This project also fits in that of the improvement of the rail link between the two regional metropolises, whose passenger traffic does not cease progressing and whose current service road (by FOR THE THIRD TIME via Redon) is considered to be insufficient in the long run to follow this evolution necessary. Thus, towards 2025, Rennes and Nantes will be connected in less than one hour via a future interregional station built on the site even of the new airport which will serve also the South of Brittany and Châteaubriant, to exploit the possibilities of intermodality fully.
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