Toulouse-Matabiau is the main railway station of the French southern city of Toulouse. |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Toulouse ( pronounced in standard French, and in the local accent ( Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced) is a city in southwest
History
Toulouse waited a long time for the arrival of the railway as one of its mayors, Joseph Villèle, refused to accept it. "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government It was only in the middle of the 19th century that the railroad finally arrived in the city.
In 1853, Émile and his brother Jacob Pereire founded the CF du Midi. Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The Chemin de Fer du Midi, often abbreviated to CF du Midi, was an early French railway company. Three years later, the line from Agen to Toulouse opened and was then extended from Bordeaux to Sète in 1857. Agen (aʒɛ̃ is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in the Aquitaine region in southwestern France. Toulouse ( pronounced in standard French, and in the local accent ( Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced) is a city in southwest Sète ( Seta in Occitan) is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France
The current passenger building was only built between 1903 and 1905, replacing an older and smaller building. The station took the name of the borough it was situated in, an area called Matabiau, named after Saint Saturnin, mata-bios meaning kill the bull. Saint Saturnin of Toulouse (in Latin, Saturninus; Sernin in Modern French; in Galicia, Sadurninho; in Navarra It was designed by Marius Toudoire (who also designed the station at Bordeaux) and was built with stone from the Roman city of Saintes. Saintes may refer to the following places Saintes Belgium Saintes Charente-Maritime, a commune of France in the Charente-Maritime department Like the Midi station in Bordeaux, Matabiau station bears 26 coats of arms on the front of the building of the 26 destinations that Midi served. ( Gascon: Bordèu) is a port city in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area at a 2008 estimate A coat of arms or armorial bearings (often just arms for short in European tradition is a design belonging to a particular person (or group of people
Some work was carried out on the building in 1938 prior to it being listed.
Destinations
Toulouse-Matabiau is situated at the heart of a six-branch star network of lines with both regional and national (TGV and Corail) services. Various terms are used for Passenger rail lines and equipment Inter-city rail services are express Train passenger services which cover longer distances than Commuter trains Africa Inter-city services are reasonably The TGV ( t rain à g rande v itesse, French for "high-speed train" is France 's High-speed rail service Corail is the name given to a class of passenger rail cars of the SNCF that first entered commercial service in 1975
Toulouse is served by the following lines:
- Toulouse-Montauban
- Toulouse-Saint-Sulpice
- Toulouse-Carcassonne
- Toulouse-Tarbes and Bayonne
- Toulouse-Foix
- Toulouse-Auch
Several SNCF facilities are present near the station, including the old Toulouse-Raynal goods yard now a carriage and engine maintenance yard and the large Saint-Jory marshalling yard 15 kilometers (9 mi) to the north. Montauban ( Montalban in Occitan) is a town and commune of southwestern France, Préfecture (capital of the Tarn-et-Garonne Saint-Sulpice may mean The saints Sulpicius Severus (c 360 - c Carcassonne (Carcassona is a fortified French town in the Aude département, of which it is the Prefecture, Tarbes is a French town and commune, in the département of Hautes-Pyrénées, of which it is the Préfecture Bayonne ( French: Bayonne bajɔn Gascon Occitan and Basque: Baiona) is a city and commune of southwest Foix (fwa is a commune, the capital of the Ariège département in France. This article is for the French town For the bird see Great auk. SNCF ( Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français) (French National Railway Company is a French public enterprise Saint-Jory is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.