Les Aubrais station
railway station in Fleury-les-Aubrais, France
The gare des Aubrais (before 2014: gare des Aubrais-Orléans) is a main-line railway station located in the town of Fleury-les-Aubrais in Loiret, central France, and serving the greater Orléans district. It is situated on the Paris to Bordeaux railway and is also the northern terminus of the Orléans to Montauban line. TGV and most other long-distance trains serve only the Gare des Aubrais, and not the more central Gare d'Orléans.
Services
The station is served by Intercités (long distance) services towards Paris and Toulouse, and by regional services (TER Centre-Val de Loire) to Orléans and Paris.
“Les Aubrais station” enters the record as railway station in Fleury-les-Aubrais, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aubrais, station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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