Gare de Ners, Heritage railway station in Boucoiran-et-Nozières, France.
Gare de Ners is a former railway station in Boucoiran-et-Nozières, on the right bank of the Gardon at 84 metres altitude. Its passenger building is red brick with grey stone mouldings in a neo-Tudor style: three bays, basket-handle doorways on the ground floor, three mullioned windows above, and a slate hipped roof with a central dormer. A tall brick chimney rises on the right, and a blue "NERS" sign is fixed to the upper facade.
Gare de Ners was built between 1839 and 1841 on the initiative of engineer Paulin Talabot, on the Nîmes–La Grand-Combe line, the southern part of the Saint-Germain-des-Fossés–Nîmes-Courbessac line known as the ligne des Cévennes. It opened in 1841 under the Compagnie des Mines de la Grand'Combe et des chemins de fer du Gard, built to carry Cévennes coal to the port of Beaucaire. Omnibus trains to Alès and Nîmes served it until 1973.
The station takes its name from the village of Ners, a few hundred metres north across the rail-road bridge over the Gardon. Its traveller building is a copy of an English railway station, built as a tribute by Paulin Talabot to his friend Robert Stephenson. The neo-Tudor brickwork with stone mouldings and the slate roof, unusual among local tiled roofs, remain the features to look for.
The station stands on the right bank of the Gardon at 84 m altitude, on the line between the disused Vézénobres stop and the open Boucoiran station. The building is closed and can only be seen from outside; the village of Ners lies a few hundred metres north, across the mixed rail-road bridge over the Gardon.
The passenger building is said to be a copy of an English railway station, built as a tribute by engineer Paulin Talabot to his friend Robert Stephenson. Its brick walls, moulded stone surrounds and slate roof were listed as monuments historiques on 25 June 1987.
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