Gare de Bordeaux Saint-Jean

Station Bordeaux-Saint-Jean, called Gare Saint Jean in Bordeaux, is the largest railway station in the region Aquitaine in Paris at 3:00.
It serves Spain, the Arcachon basin and is also connected to cities like Lyon, Toulouse, Nantes and Nice.
Links to the towns of Bergerac, Perigueux, Angouleme, Agen, Pau, Libourne, La Rochelle, Limoges, Poitiers are common.

This station located at the end of the course of the Marne was built in 1855 by the Compagnie du Midi in place of the Bordeaux train station Segur. The significant development of the railways in the late nineteenth century made it necessary to build a larger main railway station. Work began in 1889. The arrival hall was built first in 1893 and was the departure hall in 1897. The entire complex was completed in 1898. The Gare Saint-Jean became the main train station in Bordeaux at the expense of the Orleans station (Bordeaux-Bastide) on the right bank of the river. The merger in 1934 between the Company and the Company of South Paris Orleans sounded the death knell for the latter. Note also that there is another station on the right bank upstream from that of the Bastide Station of the State, terminus (which was built near a station called good Bordeaux-Deschamps, not to be confused) . For Bordeaux was served by three railroads. A major overhaul of the lines on the right bank was in 1954.

The departure lounge is a huge hall of the nineteenth century built on two levels and lit by a large canopy. In the departure hall is painted a large map of the lines network company of the South, from Bordeaux to Sète. This beautiful card was unfortunately amputated during the renovation of the station, in the 80's, to create a passage between two spaces. The amputated part is most of the Pyrenees mountain and lines of the old South (particularly in the Ariege and Aude).

The canopy overhanging the paths is the largest glass roof rail in Europe. It was designed by Gustave Eiffel, who also leads as prime contractor (not designer) construction of the railway bridge called bridge Eiffel used until 2008 to cross the Garonne, which allowed the station St. John to be connected to any network train north of the Garonne. A new book replaces the 4-way since then to increase significantly the rate of train passages.

Metal structures are the work of the company Daydé & looted.

The station and its metal canopy covering the tracks, the subject of a registration as a historic monument since December 12, 1984.