Gare de Tours is a railway station

Train station

A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 serving the city Tours

Tours

Tours is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department.It is located on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the alleged perfection of its local spoken French, and for the...

, Indre-et-Loire

Indre-et-Loire

Indre-et-Loire is a department in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers.-History:Indre-et-Loire is one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

 department, western France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. It is situated on the Paris–Bordeaux railway

Paris–Bordeaux railway

The railway from Paris to Bordeaux is an important French 584-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the southwestern port city Bordeaux via Orléans and Tours. The railway was opened in several stages between 1840 and 1853, when the section from Poitiers to Angoulême was finished...

, the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway

Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway

The railway from Tours to Saint-Nazaire is an important French 282-kilometre long railway line. It is used for passenger and freight traffic...

, and the non-electrified Tours–Le Mans railway

Tours–Le Mans railway

The railway from Tours to Le Mans is a French 96-kilometre long railway line. It is used for passenger and freight traffic. The railway was opened in 1858.The line is non-electrified, only around Tours and Le Mans....

. The Gare de Tours is a terminus; most TGV

TGV

The TGV is France's high-speed rail service, currently operated by SNCF Voyages, the long-distance rail branch of SNCF, the French national rail operator....

 trains only serve the nearby Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps

Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps

Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps is a railway station serving the town Saint-Pierre-des-Corps and the Tours agglomeration, Indre-et-Loire department, western France...

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On 28 December 1984, the railway station was classified as monument historique

Monument historique

A monument historique is a National Heritage Site of France. It also refers to a state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building or a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, or gardens, bridges, and other structures, because of their...

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The architect of the 1898 station was Victor Laloux

Victor Laloux

Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher.- Life :Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts atelier of Louis-Jules André, with his studies interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, and was awarded the annual Prix de Rome in 1878...

, with four allegorical limestone statues of cities by Jean Antoine Injalbert

Jean Antoine Injalbert

Jean Antoine Injalbert was a much-decorated French sculptor, born at Béziers.- Life :The son of a stonemason, Injalbert was a pupil of Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1874. At the Exposition Universelle of 1889 he won the Grand Prix, and in 1900 was a member of...

 (Bordeaux and Toulouse) and Jean-Baptiste Hugues

Jean-Baptiste Hugues

Jean-Baptiste Hugues was a French sculptor.He won the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1875. He was resident at the Villa Medicis from 1876 to 1879. When he was alive, he gained some fame : his works were exhibited at the Salons and were always commented on by critics and writers at the time...

(Limoges and Nantes).

Services

The following services currently call at Tours:

• intercity services (Intercités) Nantes - Tours - Bourges - Lyon
• intercity services (Intercités) Caen - Alençon - Le Mans - Tours
• intercity services (Intercités) Paris - Orléans - Blois - Tours