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Saint Charles is the main railway station
Train station

|}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which passengers may board and alight from trains and/or rail-transported freight may be loaded or unloaded....
 of Marseille
Marseille

"Marseille" is the second-largest city of France and forms the third-largest aire urbaine, after those of Paris and Lyon, with a population recorded to be 1,516,340 at the 1999 census and estimated to be 1,605,000 in 2007....
. It is a terminus and opened on 8 January 1848, having been built for the PLM
Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée

The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris ? Lyon et ? la M?diterran?e was a France railway.Created between 1858 and 1862 from the amalgamation of the earlier Paris-Lyon and Lyon-M?diterran?e companies, and subsequently incorporating a number of smaller railways, the PLM operated chiefly in the south-east of France, with a main line which c...
 on the land of the Saint Charles Cemetery.






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Saint Charles is the main railway station
Train station

|}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which passengers may board and alight from trains and/or rail-transported freight may be loaded or unloaded....
 of Marseille
Marseille

"Marseille" is the second-largest city of France and forms the third-largest aire urbaine, after those of Paris and Lyon, with a population recorded to be 1,516,340 at the 1999 census and estimated to be 1,605,000 in 2007....
. It is a terminus and opened on 8 January 1848, having been built for the PLM
Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée

The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris ? Lyon et ? la M?diterran?e was a France railway.Created between 1858 and 1862 from the amalgamation of the earlier Paris-Lyon and Lyon-M?diterran?e companies, and subsequently incorporating a number of smaller railways, the PLM operated chiefly in the south-east of France, with a main line which c...
 on the land of the Saint Charles Cemetery. The station is perched on top of a small hill and is linked to the city centre by a monumental set of stairs.

The station was once a stage on the voyage to Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
 and the Middle-East before the popularisation of flying
Fixed-wing aircraft

A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of heavier-than-air flight whose Lift is generated not by wing motion relative to the aircraft, but by forward motion through the air....
. Passengers now arrive from Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, the North of France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

The station building was built in a U shape around a rooftop canopy. It was opened in 1848 on top of a plateau. Both wings house the arrivals and departures. To the rear of the station, along Boulevard Voltaire was the station's goods yard which was used up until the end of the 1990s by the SNCF
SNCF

SNCF is a France public enterprise. Its functions include operation of rail services for passengers and freight, and maintenance as well as signalling of rail infrastructure owned by R?seau Ferr? de France ....
's road freight operations, Sernam. The station firstly isolated from the town was equipped by a great staircase, was thought of in 1911 and opened un 1926. It is bordered by African and Middle-East inspired statues.

A first extension was opened after World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. The buildings on the northside had been destroyed and were rebuilt and housed the administration offices of the SNCF. A new between level was opened to enhance the flow of passengers.

At the end of the 1990s and redevelopement project began with the opening of the Marseille underground
Marseille Metro

The Marseilles Metro serves the City of Marseilles. It is a rubber-tyred metro derived from the technology developed by the RATP for Paris Metro and opened at the end of 1977....
 and bus interchange as well as the arrival of the TGV Méditerranée
LGV Méditerranée

|}|}The LGV M?diterran?e is a France high-speed rail of approximately 250 km length, which entered service in June, 2001. Running between Saint-Marcel-l?s-Valence and Marseille, it connects the regions of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur and Languedoc-Roussillon to the LGV Rh?ne-Alpes, and therefore to Lyon and the north of France....
.

A new passenger concourse was opened below the administration offices to link the station with the transport interchange. This is due to open at the end of 2006.

Station layout

Saint-Charles has 14 dead end platforms and 4 tracks leaving it, all equipped with 1500 DC
Direct current

Direct current is the unidirectional flow of electric charge. Direct current is produced by such sources as battery , thermocouples, solar cells, and commutator-type electric machines of the dynamo type....
 overhead wire. Near the entrance to the station, track splits into two lines; towards Vintimille and the North as well as a single track line to Briançon
Briançon

Brian?on is a communes of France in the Hautes-Alpes Departments of France in the Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is the Subprefectures in France of the department....
. A single track branch line links Saint-Charles to the harbour station of La Joliette.

Destinations

  • Lyon
    Lyon

    ||-||}Lyon, also known as Lyons in English, is a city in east-central France. Its name is pronounced in French language and Franco-Proven?al language, and or in English language....
    -Paris (3 hours)
  • Bretagne
    Bretagne

    Bretagne is one of the 26 regions of France of France. It occupies a large peninsula in the northwest of the country, lying between the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south....
  • Lille
    Gare de Lille-Europe

    Lille-Europe is a modern through station in Lille, France. This station is primarily used for Eurostar and TGV services although some regional rail trains also call at the station....
    -Bruxelles
  • Bourgogne
    Bourgogne

    Bourgogne is one of the 26 regions of France of France.The region of Bourgogne is both larger than the old Duchy of Burgundy and smaller than the area ruled by the Duke of Burgundy....
  • Lorraine
    Lorraine (région)

    Lorraine is one of the 26 Regions of France of France. It is the only administrative region with two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy....
  • Bordeaux
    Bordeaux

    is a Port city on the Garonne in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its aire urbaine at a 2008 estimate. It is the Capital of the Aquitaine regions of France, as well as the Prefectures in France of the Gironde Departments of France....
     / Toulouse
    Toulouse

    Toulouse is a commune of France in southwest France on the banks of the Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea....
  • Nice
    Nice

    Nice is a city in Southern France France located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, between Marseille, France, and Genoa, Italy, with 1,197,751 inhabitants in the 2007 estimate....
  • Le Havre
    Le Havre

    Le Havre is a city in the northwest region of France situated on the right bank of the mouth of the Seine River as it outlets into the Bay of the Seine section of the English Channel....
     / Rouen
    Rouen

    Rouen is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie r?gion in France....
Many other regional trains serve the station.

Important people

  • Paulin Talabot: started the Marseille-Avignon
    Avignon

    Avignon is a Communes of France in the Vaucluse Departments of France in southeastern France with an estimated mid-2004 population of 89,300 in the city itself and a population of 290,466 in the aire urbaine at the 1999 census....
     line.
  • Sénès
    Senés

    Sen?s is a municipality of Almer?a , in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain....
    : Architect of the stairway.