Train, Toulouse

This is a major city, and you have many alternative to come here as well as good connection to cities in the southwest and even into Andorra and Spain.

by car, my favorite way, from Paris, you can take the N20 that becomes the A20 and reach Toulouse direct, see www.viamichelin.com
http://www.asf.fr/control/index.aspx?pageid=Internet2007Anglais.9898
info on roads southwest. See parking in the city in another tip post in my page;

then you have the train, TGV service and TER,INtercité, the works
http://www.ter-sncf.com/Regions/Midi_Pyrenees/fr/Default.aspx

There is work on the line into 2013 and here are the parts affected
http://www.ter-sncf.com/Regions/midi_pyrenees/Fr/Se_deplacer_en_TER/Avant_mon_voyage/Flash_actus/DetailsFlash_actus.aspx?URI=tcm%3a25-59181

info on the train station at Toulouse Matabiau
http://www.ter-sncf.com/Region/midi_pyrenees/gare/TOULOUSE%20MATABIAU.aspx

to take the bus/tram the site is Tisseo, and it tells you all
http://www.tisseo.fr/

and you have a wonderful airport at Blagnac
http://www.toulouse.aeroport.fr/

The information is quite extensive at the city webpage here
http://www.toulouse.fr/cadre-vie/transports

of course for details let me know, go here often and have family nearby.

La ligne C est en quelque sorte le RER toulousain. C'est une ligne de trains, spéciaux, à cadence élevée, qui relie Toulouse à Colomiers.
Les rames sont très modernes, accessibles aux personnes handicapées, et mettent une quinzaine de minutes pour faire le parcours.

The C line is in a way the RER toulousain. It is a line of trains, special, to elevated cadence, that joins Toulouse in Colomiers.
The oars are very modern, accessible to the handicapped people, and put about fifteen minutes to make the course.

A Toulouse, la gare SNCF (des trains) est couramment appelée "Matabiau", nom du lieu où elle a été construite. Ce nom veut dire "tuer le taureau" (ce serait ici que le taureau utilisé pour le martyr de Saint-Cernin aurait été rattrapé et tué).
A coté de la Gare des trains, se situe la gare routière (autobus), et l'ensemble est desservie par une station de métro (Marengo-SNCF), et plusieurs lignes de bus.
C'est de là que partent les Noctambus, les bus de nuit.

In Toulouse, the SNCF station (of the trains) is called " Matabiau", name of the place where it has been constructed, fluently. This name means "to kill the bull" (it would be here that the bull used for the martyr of Saint-Cernin would have been caught up and killed).
To quoted of the Station of the trains, be located the road station (bus), and the whole is gone against by a station of subway (Marengo-SNCF), and several lines of bus.
It is of there that leaves the Noctambus, the buses of night.

Many French towns now offer a guided tour on a little train, and Toulouse was not exception.

It was an ideal way of seeing quite a lot of the town in the short time I had there, and convenient, in that it departed from outside the hotel.

Although the commentary was in French, I was provided with a (direct) written english translation, which gave me the backgound to the sites we passed.

Toulouse rail line is on the route from Bordeaux and Narbonne.. Trains are run by SNCF. Timetables on SNCF site or BAHN.de

there are big railway lines,with direct trains from nice,marseille,lyon,bordeaux,bayonne,perpignan,paris.The name of the station is:toulouse-matabiau.Also an airport:toulouse-blagnac.