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Piccolina Feb 24th, 2011 09:32 PM

Same Railstation - Tours Center vs. St. Pierre des Corps??
 
I booked a TGV ticket from Tours Centre to Paris Montparnasse. My car rental drop-off address listed on my Kemwel voucher is:

Tours Railstation - IKC North
2 Place de la Gare
St. Pierre des Corps

Are these two different railstations? If so, can I just hop on a train from St. Pierre des Corps to get to Tours Centre?

Thanks in advance.

GeoffHamer Feb 25th, 2011 12:11 AM

They are separate stations.
St Pierre des Corps is on the main line from Paris to Bordeaux. It's in a suburb east of Tours.
Tours station is in the centre of the city, on a branch line.
Some TGVs go from Tours to Paris and stop to pick up passengers at St Pierre des Corps five minutes later. In other cases, you get a local connecting train from Tours to St Pierre des Corps then change to a TGV for Paris.
If you have a ticket from Tours to Paris but want to start from St Pierre des Corps, then join the train at St Pierre des Corps five minutes after it leaves Tours.

Sarastro Feb 25th, 2011 05:56 AM

In the past I have ridden a Tours Centre TGV that did <b>not</b> stop at St Pierre des Corps so if you decide to drop off at St Pierre des Corps and wait for your train, make sure there is a scheduled stop there. I would ask at the station to confirm before I assumed.

StuDudley Feb 25th, 2011 07:57 AM

Have Kemwel change the drop-off to Tours Center. The St Pierre des Corps station is a little hard to find.

Stu Dudley

GeoffHamer Feb 25th, 2011 12:55 PM

All the trains from Tours to Paris stop at St Pierre des Corps to pick up passengers.

Piccolina Feb 25th, 2011 03:45 PM

Thank you everyone. I will call Kemwel to change the drop-off to Tours to be on the safe side!

Piccolina Feb 28th, 2011 10:44 PM

Update - Just called Kemwel and they said the other europcar location aside from the airport and St. P.d.c is on avenue Maginot. I told them google map is showing a europcar on Rue Bernard Palissy (which looks very close to Tours Center Gare) but this location doesn't show up on their system. His explanation was that this could be a franchise store and they don't do rentals out of franchise locations.

So it looks like i'm stuck with returning the car to St. PDC. I will check with the railstation to make sure my train stops there to pick up passengers. Thanks everyone for their input.


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