Vayrac station

Coordinates: 44°57′01″N 1°42′23″E / 44.950155°N 1.706398°E / 44.950155; 1.706398
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Vayrac
Former passenger building
General information
LocationAvenue de la Gare
46110 Vayrac
Lot
France
Coordinates44°57′01″N 1°42′23″E / 44.950155°N 1.706398°E / 44.950155; 1.706398
Owned bySNCF
Operated byclosed
Line(s)Souillac à Viescamp-sous-Jallès
Platforms1
Tracks1
Other information
Station code87594739
History
Opened11 May 1891 (1891-05-11)
Closed2017 (2017)

Vayrac station (French: Gare de Vayrac) is a French closed train station on the ligne de Souillac à Viescamp-sous-Jallès, close to town in the Commune of Vayrac, in the departement of Lot, in the region of Occitanie.

It was in service from 1891, for the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO).

It took passengers from the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF), served until 2017 by trains of the TER Occitanie network.

Railway[edit]

Built at 122 metres (400 ft) above sea level, the Gare de Vayrac is located at kilometric point (PK) 641,483 of the ligne de Souillac à Viescamp-sous-Jallès, between the open station of Saint-Denis-près-Martel and the closed station at Bétaille.[1]

History[edit]

The station in the 1900s.

The Gare de Vayrac was opened on 11 May 1891[2] by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO), used as a stop between the Saint-Denis-près-Martel and Viescamp-sous-Jallès.[3]

The station has a passenger building, with a central body with three openings, with a floor under a roof with two sides, framed by two small wings to an opening on the ground floor under a roof with two sides.

In 1896, the Compagnie du PO indicated that receipts for the station for the year totalled 134,184 francs.[4]

Having once been used as a stop by the SNCF, the passenger building is now closed.[5]

Since July 2017, no trains have stopped at the station.

Railway history[edit]

The former passenger buildings are still present at the site.[5]

Notes and references[edit]

  1. ^ Site rff.fr Carte : Le réseau ferré en Midi-Pyrénées Archived 14 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 16 April 2014).
  2. ^ site ladepeche.fr Biars-sur-Cère. L'épopée de la ligne des gorges de la Cère, published in La Dépêche du Midi, 28 May 2011 (accessed 16 April 2014).
  3. ^ Site patrimoines.midipyrenees.fr : ancienne voie ferrée de Souillac à Viescamp-sous-Jallès, actuellement ligne Brive-Aurillac (accessed 16 April 2014).
  4. ^ Conseil Général (August 1897). "Chemin de fer d'Orléans recettes effectuées en 1896, par les gares du réseau d'Orléans situées dans le département du Lot". Rapports et délibérations / Département du Lot, Conseil général (in French). p. 38.
  5. ^ a b Site Massif Central ferroviaire : Gare Vayrac (accessed 16 April 2014).

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