taking about an hour for the route. Compagnie des chemins de fer des Ardennes opened the station in 1862. TEC bus 154A runs every hour or two from the station to Dinant, taking about 42 minutes. It replaces railway line 154A, which took about 30 minutes for the route and closed in 1988. In 2021 a study began into reopening a single track, with a cycleway alongside. The former Line 138A to Florennes and Châtelet has been converted to a RAVeL cycleway. The River Meuse is navigable from the North Sea to Givet. The Canal de la Meuse links to the rest of the French canal network. The port declined after the canal was enlarged to allow 1,350 ton barges in the 1960s, but, when it was reconnected to the railway in 2013, it was still handling about 760,000 tonnes of freight a year. Givet is served by several main roads, including D8051 to Rocroi, formerly N51, and D949, which is the French section of Belgium's N40, linking Arlon and Mons. See also Communes of the Ardennes department References External links Official Web site (in French) Communes of Ardennes (department) Ardennes communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia Prisoner-of-war camps Prisoner-of-war camps in France Defunct prisons in France