A Walk Around Gare de Monaco

Monaco - Monte-Carlo is the only railway station in the Principality of Monaco, though part of the station is located in Beausoleil, France. It is served by trains of the French operator SNCF, on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway line. The station, along with the entire railway line in the principality, is located underground. The railway line from Marseille reached Monaco in 1868. The station, originally named Monaco (Gare de Monaco), was renamed Monaco-Monte Carlo in the 1950’s, after the building of a new tunnel bypassing a second SNCF station named Monte Carlo (closed in 1965. In the early 1990’s, it was decided to re-route the railway completely underground and build a new station closer to the centre of Monaco. Construction commenced in 1993, and the new station opened on 7 December 1999, replacing the former surface station from then comprises a curved tunnel 466 metres in length, 22 metres wide and 13 metres in height. There are three tracks through the station, accessed from a side platform on the south side, and an island platform between the two tracks to the north. The majority of trains serving Monaco-Monte-Carlo are local TER Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur services between Marseille-Saint-Charles and Ventimiglia, in Italy close to the French-Italian border. There are also a small number of TGV services from Paris-Gare de Lyon.