Nantes

Introduction

Located in the west of France , Nantes is one of the important railway hubs in France, with six different directions of railways. Nantes Station is located in the south of the city of Nantes. It is east-west and the main entrance is facing north. Nantes Tram Line 1 passes through Nantes Station.

Built in 1849, the original name was "Gare de Nantes-Orléans" because it was originally managed by the Paris-Orleans Railway Company.

In 1972, “Nante-Orleans Station” was officially renamed “Nante Station”. In 1993, Nantes South Square was completed and operated, and there were long-distance bus stations and large parking lots nearby.

Platform

Station 1 is next to the main building, but there are two passenger passages that extend below the track and can be accessed directly into voies 2-11. The main passage can be accessed via stairs to the platform No. 2-11. So if you have luggage, don't think you have to use the stairs.

The main passage is also connected to the main (north) departure hall and walks up the stairs to the left at the end of the passage. However, the secondary passage (which will face the front of the train when arriving from Paris) has an elevator/rear passage in addition to the stairs.

Orléans Centre

Nantes (, also US: , French: [nɑ̃t] ; Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt [nɑ̃(ː)t]; Breton: Naoned [ˈnãunət]) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of 303,382 in Nantes and a metropolitan area of nearly 950,000 inhabitants. With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms the main north-western French metropolis. It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire région, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former duchy and province, and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial. Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. It was the seat of a bishopric at the end of the Roman era before it was conquered by the Bretons in 851. Although Nantes was the primary residence of the 15th-century dukes of Brittany, Rennes became the provincial capital after the 1532 union of Brittany and France. During the 17th century, after the establishment of the French colonial empire, Nantes gradually became the largest port in France and was responsible for nearly half of the 18th-century French Atlantic slave trade. The French Revolution resulted in an economic decline, but Nantes developed robust industries after 1850 (chiefly in shipbuilding and food processing). Deindustrialisation in the second half of the 20th century spurred the city to adopt a service economy. In 2012, the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked Nantes as a Gamma world city. It is the fourth-highest-ranking city in France, after Paris, Lyon and Marseille. The Gamma category includes cities such as Algiers, Orlando, Porto, Turin and Leipzig. Nantes has been praised for its quality of life, and it received the European Green Capital Award in 2013. The European Commission noted the city's efforts to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions, its high-quality and well-managed public transport system and its biodiversity, with 3,366 hectares (8,320 acres) of green space and several protected Natura 2000 areas.

Orléans (UK: , US: , French: ɔʁleɑ̃) is a prefecture and commune in north-central France, about 111 kilometres (69 miles) southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret department and of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Orléans is located on the Loire River where the river curves south towards the Massif Central. In 2015, the city had 114,644 inhabitants, and the population of the urban area was 433,337. Île d'Orléans in Quebec, Canada is named after Orleans in France as is Orléans, Ontario and New Orleans, Louisiana. (French: La Nouvelle-Orléans)