Gare de Saint-Brieuc-Centrale, Monument historique railway station in Saint-Brieuc, France.
Gare de Saint-Brieuc-Centrale is a former railway station built in stone and brick with eight parabolic arches supporting its vaulted roof at the Boulevard Waldeck-Rousseau junction. The building was later converted to a university cafeteria and is now legally protected as a historical monument.
Louis Harel de la Noë designed this station, which operated from 1905 to 1956 as part of the narrow-gauge regional railway network of Côtes-du-Nord. After closure, the building was preserved through conversion and gained official historical monument status in 2014.
The station's name survives in local memory through the association that saved it: the Chemins de fer des Côtes-du-Nord, which campaigned to keep the building standing. Architect David Cras handled its 1995 conversion, and from 1999 to 2021 it housed a university restaurant. The gold "SAINT-BRIEUC" lettering and crest on the facade still mark it as a public building.
The building is open to the public through its use as a university cafeteria, where you can see the historical architecture inside. Its location at a busy traffic intersection makes it easy to find and access.
The station's canopy once covered four tracks, and a side building housed both the passenger hall and the network's administrative centre. Engineer Louis Harel de la Noë built it between 1902 and 1905; architect David Cras handled its 1995 conversion. The surviving parts were listed as monuments historiques on 3 March 2014.
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