Toulouse Metro & Train Station
 

A few questions about the Toulouse Metro & the train station.
Where can you buy tickets and how does the system work?
Do you buy tickets in multiples (1, 2, 5, 10, etc)?
Do you validate them at a turnstile one by one as they are used?

Online maps seem to show the Metro station at the train station quite a distance away. However, when I zoomed in to street level I saw a Metro station (Marengo) right in front of the train station on Boulevard Pierre Semard. I guess there isn't one inside the train station too. Correct?

I guess there are several entrances to the Metro that are a block or two apart for the same Metro station.

I tried the online trip planner for the Metro. I enter leaving from Capitole Metro and arriving at Marengo. Strangely, their route was to take the Metro from Capitole one stop to Jean-Jaures and then transfer to a bus. That doesn't seem right to me.

The now-outdated Rough Guide that I used for Toulouse had excellent information on things like this. You might want to get one, or consult one at your local library.

Hi Myer

The metro station Marengo comes in underground at the main Toulouse station, then you walk along a passage way to get to the main station.

When there we purchased our tickets (I think in batches of 10) from the tabac shop near where we were staying. If you haven't come across a tabac before, they were similar to our little corner stores, selling magazines, sweets, cigarettes etc.

You validate these tickets when you get on a bus, or when you enter the metro station. The station staff were very helpful to us, and there are large boards at stations and in each train carriage that show where you need to go for connections etc.

Have you looked at this website:
https://www.tisseo.fr/en/home - when I put in the stops you used above, it shows a single journey on line A taking 3 minutes. It also has some very helpful information, including an interactive map you can use to see the route you are wanting.

Like all unfamiliar transport, it took us a couple of journeys to get the hang of it; it's an extremely easy and fast public transport system! Di

Hi Myer

There's work being done on the metro at the moment, so it's closed between Jean Jaures and Balma Gramont since the 15th July until the 2nd of August and between Arenes and Basso Cambo from the 3rd until the 23rd of August. Maybe that's why you had the bus transfer coming up.

di2315 & mariajohanna,

I think we are all correct.

The "A" Metro line was probably closed for maintenance work between Jean Jaures and Balma Gramont but maybe it's now open again since it's Aug 1 (maybe work was completed a day early).

When I did the trip planner thing yesterday it had me taking the Metro at Capitol and changing to a bus at Jean Jaures. Probably for the work being done.

Now it shows as di2315 explained that I should take the Metro from Capitole to the train station for a 3 minute ride. That appears pretty fast considering it includes a stop.

I guess if I had not done this yesterday and waited until today it all would have shown as I expected.

I ask these questions so that if I know there's an entrance to the Metro inside the train station I'm not wasting my time looking for it.

Thanks to both of you for the very helpful information.

You always have to validate metro/bus tickets any time you use them, on any metro I've been on anywhere in the world. That shows they are used, and if they are individual tickets, then it would be one by one. On most systems, it is a turnstile but in some cities it may not be, but you still have to validate them.