Dinan station

Route map

Legend km elev Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg railway to Caen (295.200) 0.000 Lison 7 0.455 Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg railway to Cherbourg 2.902 Airel 10 7.125 La Meauffe 12 10.002 Vire (45m) 10.396 Pont-Hébert 11 18.467 Saint-Lô end of electrification 14 18.741 to Condé-sur-Vire 23.011 Joigne River (12m) 23.380 Joigne River (12m) 23.639 Joigne River (12m) 23.809 Joigne River (12m) 26.213 Canisy 62 31.023 Terrette River (10m) 31.774 Carantilly – Marigny 34.574 Cametours 111 39.830 Belval 130 47.601 to Sottevast 47.984 Coutances 49 48.792 Soulles (72m) 54.100 to Regnéville-sur-Mer 54.837 Orval – Hyenville 57.739 Quettreville 19 63.160 Sienne (10m) 63.780 Cérences 26 69.919 Hudimesnil 93 Argentan–Granville railway to Granville 75.305 Folligny 126 76.848 Argentan–Granville railway to Argentan 79.722 Thar (4m) 80.145 La Haye-Pesnel 90 86.407 Montviron – Sartilly 93.424 Sée (22m) 93.929 Avranches 11 100.135 Pontaubault 15 100.300 to Domfront 100.943 Sélune (134m) 108.043 Servon – Tanis 13 115.414 115.832 Pontorson – Mont-St-Michel to Fougères│to Mont Saint-Michel 116.663 Couesnon (41m) 121.099 Pleine-Fougères 35 128.579 La Boussac 36 136.781 Rennes–Saint-Malo railway to Saint-Malo 137.511 Dol-de-Bretagne 21 138.298 Rennes–Saint-Malo railway to Rennes 145.763 Plerguer 22 150.172 to Gouesnière – Cancale 150.572 Miniac-Morvan 24 155.884 Pleudihen 33 158.903 Rance (101m) 159.587 La Hisse 42 164.200 to Dinard 164.255 Fontaine-des-Eaux (162m) 169.940 Dinan 76 to Collinée to La Brohinière 174.532 Corseul – Languenan 123 180.995 Montafilan River (6m) to Saint-Cast 183.131 Plancoët 8 183.637 Arguenon (13m) 191.549 Landébia 59 197.400 Quintenic – Plédéliac 102 200.300 end of electrification E.P. agricultural cooperative (private) Paris–Brest railway to Rennes 205.577 206.007 (454.259) Lamballe 56 Paris–Brest railway to Saint-Brieuc km elev This diagram: view talk edit

Dinan station (French: Gare de Dinan) is a French railway station on the Lison to Lamballe line, in the town of Dinan, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany. It has included a railway museum since 1991. The station was opened in 1879 by the Western Railways Company. It is now a station of the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF), served by trains operated by TER Bretagne.

Network location

The station is at an altitude of 76 metres (249 ft). It is at kilometer point (KP) 169.940 of the Lison to Lamballe line, between the Hisse and Corseul stations. It was at the start of lines to Saint-Énogat and La Brohinière, both of which were closed in the 1990s.

History

The single-track section from Dol-de-Bretagne to Lamballe, on which is Dinan is located, was commissioned on 29 December 1879 by the Western Railway Company. The present station dates from 1931, and was designed by Georges-Robert Lefort. It was part of the construction program launched by Raoul Dautry, general manager of the state railway administration, to renovate several of the company's stations. Inside the hall there are two mosaics. One is a map of the railways in the region, and the other a map of the town of Dinan. These mosaics have been registered as historical monuments since 21 November 1995.^[1]

Services

The station has a building with open ticket windows every day except Sunday and is also equipped with ticket vending machines.^[2]

Dinan is served by TER Bretagne trains that terminate or originate in the station.^[2] Trains come from or go to Dol-de-Bretagne on one side (TER line 17), or Saint-Brieuc on the other side (TER line 24). Some of the trains go on to, or come from, Lannion or Guingamp. There is only one round trip per day that does not end in this station, between Dol-de-Bretagne and Saint-Brieuc. The station was served by a direct express train from Paris until 27 September 1986.

Connections

There is a parking lot.^[2]

The station is served by three road networks:

• Lines 1 and 2 of the Dinan urban bus (Dinanbus)^[3]
• Coaches of the Tibus departmental network on the following lines:^[4]
  • No 10 between Saint-Malo and Dinan
  • No 11 between Dinan and Taden
  • No 17 between Dinan and Montauban-de-Bretagne
• Coaches of the ILLENOO departmental network between Rennes and Dinard.^[5]

Museum

The Railway Museum was opened in the station in 1991.^[6] It is managed by the Dinan Railway Society, and present the history of the regional railroad and material gathered by collectors association: models, costumes, posters, job referrals, model trains and a beautiful and very large scale model at 1:43 with several trains running in a large Dinan landscape that is rich in details.

See also

• List of SNCF stations in Brittany

References