Pointe-Noire railway station

The railway line in the city centre marks a clear separation between downtown activity and "la côte sauvage " (the Wild Coast beach), which remains a resort for the pontengrins.

On September 26, 1921, the Governor General of French Equatorial Africa, Victor Augagneur, created the electoral district of the Congo-Ocean Railway (CFCO), with Loudima as its Chief location.

Thus, it is the decision to build a deep-water harbor that pushes colonial administrators to abandon the historic city of Loango for the benefit of Pointe Noire.

The set  "descriptive quotation, pre-award, price list, estimate, drawings " was performed in 1933, according to the national overseas archives (ANOM).

[2][3] The architect of this building is Jean Philippot (1901-1988), son-in-law of Raoul Dautry (1880-1951), Director General of the State Railway Administration, between 1928 and 1937 and then appointed after the Liberation of Paris, Minister of reconstruction and urban planning from 1944 to 1946.

There are the Norman-style petons[check spelling], with the dark vertical lines imitating the wooden panels, on the Pavilion on the left side of the facade (South end) and on the one overlooking the railroad tracks.

The building underwent expansion work in its northeast part between 1943 and 1949: the roof was lengthened, covering the small terrace, the pediment bearing the name of the city disappeared, as well as the motifs imitating the wooden panels.