Marseille-Blancarde station


Marseille-Blancarde station is a French railway station located in the city of Marseille, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
It is owned by France's national state-owned railway company SNCF and served by TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur regional trains.
According to the SNCF, 424,347 passengers travelled through the station in 2018.

History

The train station was the stopping point of some Marseille trains linking Paris to the Côte d'Azur, which avoided the creep in Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles by borrowing the connection of the Carthusians. The existence of a tram line linking the Blancarde station in the heart of the city by the Chave boulevard and the tunnel under the Plain facilitated its use. The removal of this has considerably diminished the importance of this station.
From 2009, the station was the subject of improvement works in the redevelopment of the line between Blancarde and Aubagne. Signaling work is being done around the station to modernize the infrastructure on the route leading to Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles. Most of the civil engineering work in this area is concentrated upstream between the station and that of La Pomme.

Train services