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Old Feb 24th, 2011 | 09:32 PM
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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.
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Old Feb 25th, 2011 | 12:11 AM
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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.
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Old Feb 25th, 2011 | 05:56 AM
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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.
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Old Feb 25th, 2011 | 07:57 AM
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Have Kemwel change the drop-off to Tours Center. The St Pierre des Corps station is a little hard to find.

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Old Feb 25th, 2011 | 12:55 PM
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All the trains from Tours to Paris stop at St Pierre des Corps to pick up passengers.
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Old Feb 25th, 2011 | 03:45 PM
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Thank you everyone. I will call Kemwel to change the drop-off to Tours to be on the safe side!
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Old Feb 28th, 2011 | 10:44 PM
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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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