Gare de Trouville-Deauville, Railway station and historical monument in Deauville, France
Gare de Trouville-Deauville is a dead-end railway station in Deauville featuring a large passenger hall with concrete beams, vaulted ceilings, and three gables displaying emblems on its facade. The building marks the terminus of the coastal rail line and sits at 6 meters elevation.
The station opened in 1863 to serve the growing seaside resort traffic in this coastal area. A major redesign by architect Jean Philippot took place in 1931 to accommodate rising passenger numbers.
In the half-cylindrical passenger hall, two marouflé paintings by Louis Houpin, dated 1932, show a plan of Trouville and Deauville and a map of Normandy. They are fixed to the vault above travellers using the hall, and the station has been a monument historique inscrit since 5 July 2010.
The station is located on the coastal rail line and is easily accessible on foot from town. Visitors should know this is a terminal station where trains end and reverse direction.
The station is sometimes compared to the one in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, built in the same neo-Norman style in the same year by the same architect, Jean Philippot. Its hall also appears in Claude Lelouch's 1966 film Un homme et une femme.
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