Gare de Poix-de-Picardie

Gare de Poix-de-Picardie
Location 31 Avenue de la Gare,
80290 Poix-de-Picardie, France
Coordinates 49°46′41″N 1°59′24″E / 49.77806°N 1.99000°E / 49.77806; 1.99000Coordinates: 49°46′41″N 1°59′24″E / 49.77806°N 1.99000°E / 49.77806; 1.99000
Elevation 139.8 m
Owned by RFF/SNCF
Line(s) Amiens–Rouen railway
Platforms 2 (not handicap-accessible)
Tracks 2
Electrified 1984
Services
Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
toward Amiens
TER Picardie 2
Sainte-Segrée

The Gare de Poix-de-Picardie (Poix-de-Picardie station) is a railway station located in the commune of Poix-de-Picardie in the Somme department, France. The station is served by TER Haute-Normandie and TER Picardie trains from Amiens to Rouen.

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

References

  1. ↑ Compte rendu, p. 2, Comité de ligne Amiens/Rouen, SNCF, 8 novembre 2004 (pdf) (French) "Hormis Poix-de-Picardie, les chiffres de fréquentation enregistrés entre Amiens et Formerie restent très faibles".


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