Présentation
Templeuve station is a French railway station on the lines from Fives to Hirson and from Templeuve to Don - Sainghin, located on the territory of the municipality of Templeuve-en-Pévèle, in the Nord department, in the Hauts-de-France region .
It was put into service in 1870 by the Compagnie des chemin de fer du Nord. It is a station of the French National Railway Company (SNCF), served by regional express trains of the TER Hauts-de-France network.
History
From 1855, the idea of ??joining Lille and Strasbourg by a railway passing through Valenciennes was emitted. In 1864, the mayor of Templeuve, Eugène Baratte, succeeded in having the project modified so that it passed through his commune1. The location of the “Templeuve station”, proposed by the Compagnie anonyme du chemin de fer from Lille to Valenciennes, was set by the decision of June 5, 1867. Construction was completed in 1869. Commissioning, by the Company des chemin de fer du Nord, took place during the opening of the section from Lille to Valenciennes on June 22, 1870.
The first passenger building (BV) is a small construction, carried out by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Lille in Valenciennes. It is made up of a symmetrical building, with a two-storey central body under transverse saddlebags, framed by two unstaged wings of two spans under longitudinal saddlebags. All the pinions are provided with oculi. This type of BV, which has a strong resemblance to the BV type B of the Eastern Railways, was also found in Lesquin, Orchies, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Vicoigne and Rosult; not a single one survived the First World War or the wreckers.
In 1883, work was undertaken to improve the siding. In 1891, work began on the line from Templeuve to Don - Sainghin; its inauguration, carried out on January 10, 1894, allows Templeuve to become a junction station.
The original station did not survive World War I; it was replaced by a new building during the interwar period.
In 1953, the SNCF closed passenger traffic between Templeuve and Pont-à-Marcq.
In 2014, the area around the station was redeveloped into a hub, with parking, a small park and a bus stop8. On this occasion, an old factory and the large goods hall were demolished.
According to SNCF estimates, the station's annual attendance was 675,777 in 2018. This number was 650,435 in 2017, 583,486 in 2016 and 564,443 in 2015.
In December 2019, the application of the “annual service 2020” was to lead to the elimination of 17 of the 72 daily TER services (especially trains during rush hour), despite a petition that collected 6,000 user signatures. In reaction, the mayor of the town, Luc Monnet, presented his resignation to the prefect on November 15. Finally, two stops in the morning are restored in January 2020.