Gare TGV Haute-Picardie

Haute-Picardie TGV SNCF
A Thalys train passing through the station
Station statistics
Address	Ablaincourt-Pressoir Somme, Picardy France
Coordinates	49°51′33″N 2°49′54″E
Line(s)	TGV Nord
Platforms	2
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	q

TGV Haute-Picardie is a railway station on the LGV Nord-Europe between Lille and Paris. Geographically, it is located about ten kilometers west of Péronne, between the towns of Saint Quentin and Amiens. When built, it was criticised by the press for being too far from any of the towns to be useful. It is located near a trunk road rather than a connecting railway line: it was often nicknamed la gare des betteraves, or 'beetroot station', as it is surrounded by beetroot fields.

As a very small TGV station, from the point of view of watching the trains the platform is only a few metres from the main running lines, where trains pass by at 300 km/h (186 mph), and there is a good view of the lines in both directions. In most stations on high-speed lines there is some form of barrier preventing this close up viewing from the platform.

Preceding station		SNCF		Following station
Aéroport CDG TGV		TGV LGV Nord LGV Interconnexion Est		Arras or Lille-Europe