Poix-de-Picardie station
Poix-de-Picardie is a railway station located in the commune of Poix-de-Picardie in the Somme department, France. The station is served by TER Normandie and TER Hauts-de-France trains from Amiens to Rouen.
Poix-de-Picardie | |||||||||||
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| Location | 31 Avenue de la Gare, 80290 Poix-de-Picardie, France | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°46′41″N 1°59′24″E | ||||||||||
| Elevation | 139.8 m | ||||||||||
| Owned by | RFF/SNCF | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Amiens–Rouen railway | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (not handicap-accessible) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 87313395 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 1984 | ||||||||||
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The station
The station is used more frequently than most along the 139 km long line, where passenger use is light. According to the SNCF it averaged 243 passengers per operating day in 2003.[1] It is no longer manned; tickets are obtainable from a dispenser on platform 1.
Poix railway viaduct being repaired during the First World War; the viaduct was destroyed three times during the two world wars
On film
In 1968, the railway scenes for the film Le Cerveau by Gérard Oury starring André Bourvil, Jean-Paul Belmondo and David Niven were filmed on the line.
The SNCF also filmed an advertisement on passenger safety on the Poix viaduct in 2004. Mathieu Kassovitz directed.
See also
- List of SNCF stations in Picardy
References
- Compte rendu, p. 2 Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Comité de ligne Amiens/Rouen, SNCF, 8 novembre 2004 (pdf) (in French) "Hormis Poix-de-Picardie, les chiffres de fréquentation enregistrés entre Amiens et Formerie restent très faibles".
- Timetables TER Picardie (in French)
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