Gare de Lexos

Lexos Gare de Lexos
The listed passenger building at Lexos
Location	Varen, Tarn-et-Garonne France
Coordinates	44°08′32″N 1°53′06″E / 44.142248°N 1.885131°E / 44.142248; 1.885131
Owned by	SNCF
Line(s)	Brive-Toulouse (via Capdenac)
Platforms	1
Tracks	1 (several disused)
Train operators	TER Occitanie
History
Opened	30 August 1858 (1858-08-30)

Lexos is a railway station in Varen, Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie, France. It is located on the Brive-Toulouse (via Capdenac) line and is served by TER (local) services operated by SNCF. A former Montauban branch line also terminated here.

It was opened in 1858 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans. Its imposing passenger terminal building was classified as a Monument historique in 2007.

The station at Lexos was opened on 30 August 1858 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (CFPO), when it inaugurated the Montauban to Capdenac line, which it took over on 11 April 1857 whilst it was still under construction following the failure of the . The station is located on the north bank of the Aveyron. The imposing neo-18th C station was built in several phases between 1858 and its completion in 1883. It is thought to have been modelled on the then Paris terminus of the CFPO, the Gare d'Austerlitz.

The station was connected to Toulouse on 24 October 1864 when the line from Toulouse-Matabiau to Lexos was opened by the CFPO.

Traffic was originally generated by the output of the steel and mining centers of Aubin and Decazeville, as well as the exploitation of stone quarries in Lexos. The local lime works was transformed into a flourishing cement plant which survived until its sudden closure in 1994. At the beginning of the 1880s, the opening of other routes to Paris marked the decline of the station.