Saint-Roch is the main railway station

Train station

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 in Montpellier

Montpellier

-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....

, France

France

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. The station was formerly known as Gare de Montpellier, but since March 2005 it bears the name of Saint Roch, a native of the city, who was born in the 14th century. Saint-Roch is one of the principal transport hubs of Languedoc-Roussillon

Languedoc-Roussillon

Languedoc-Roussillon is one of the 27 regions of France. It comprises five departments, and borders the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrénées on the one side, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean sea on the other side.-Geography:The region is...

, situated between the stations of Nîmes and Sète

Gare de Sète

Gare de Sète is the railway station serving the town of Sète in the Hérault département of southern France. It is the eastern terminus of the Bordeaux–Sète railway.-Train services:As of August 2011 the following services call at Sète:...

.

The station building comprises a listed front face and a passenger building laid out on three levels. What was the bus station above the tracks is now a short stay carpark. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the station is in the middle of an urban regeneration project involving old railway property called the Nouveau Saint-Roch.

Destinations

Due to its position in the south of France and on the lines from Paris, Italy and Spain, many international trains stop in Montpellier. The following connections are offered:

• To Paris
  Gare de Lyon
  Paris Lyon is one of the six large railway termini in Paris, France. It is the northern terminus of the Paris–Marseille railway. It is named after the city of Lyon, a stop for many long-distance trains departing here, most en route to the south of France. In general the station's SNCF services run...
  
   or Gare TGV Aéroport Charles de Gaulle/Lille
  Gare de Lille-Europe
  Lille-Europe is a railway station station in Lille, France. This station is primarily used for high-speed Eurostar and TGV services although some regional trains also call at the station....
  
  
• high speed services (TGV) Lille - Lyon - Toulouse
• high speed services (TGV) Bordeaux - Toulouse - Montpellier - Lyon - Dijon
• intercity services (Téoz) Bordeaux - Toulouse - Montpellier - Marseille - Nice
• night services (Lunéa) Strasbourg/Luxembourg - Nîmes - Narbonne - Portbou
• local service (TER Languedoc-Roussillon) Narbonne - Béziers - Montpellier - Nîmes - Avignon
• express service (TER Languedoc-Roussillon) Perpignan - Narbonne - Montpellier - Nîmes - Avignon
• express service (TER Languedoc-Roussillon) Narbonne - Montpellier - Nîmes - Arles - Marseille
• To Barcelona
  Barcelona
  Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
  
   and Cartagena
  Cartagena, Spain
  Cartagena is a Spanish city and a major naval station located in the Region of Murcia, by the Mediterranean coast, south-eastern Spain. As of January 2011, it has a population of 218,210 inhabitants being the Region’s second largest municipality and the country’s 6th non-Province capital...
  
   (Talgo
  Talgo
  Talgo is a Spanish manufacturer of railway vehicles. It is best known for a design of articulated railway passenger cars in which the wheels are mounted in pairs, but not joined by an axle, and being between rather than underneath the individual coaches...
  
   service).

External links

• Montpellier Saint-Roch (official site)