Falaise station
Falaise was a railway station in the French town of Falaise, Calvados.
The station was built by the CF de l'Ouest in pure Ouest architecture, and opened on 1 November 1859. It saw the arrival of a line from Flers (Berjou-Pont-d'Ouilly) on 15 April 1874 and from Falaise-Château by the Calvados railway in 1904 (Template:RailGauge).[1]
The main line to Caen closed on 1 July 1953 and the branch line from Berjou on 1 March 1938. at the birth of the SNCF. The narrow gauge line closed in 1932.
From 1954 to 1990 the station was used for Freight trains. [1] The station was closed permantly in 1990.[2]
The site of the former station was recently redeveloped and a supermarket built where the building once stood.[3]
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