Lille-Flandres train station
| Lille-Flandres | |
|---|---|
 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 17th |
| IBNR | 8700030 |
| opening | 1892 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Léonce Reynaud and Sydney Dunnett |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Lille |
| Department | North department |
| region | Hauts-de-France |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 38 '10 " N , 3 ° 4' 16" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in France | |
The Lille-Flandres train station ( Gare de Lille-Flandres in French ) is a terminus of the SNCF in the northern French city of Lille .
building
The station was built for the CF du Nord by the architects Léonce Reynaud and Sydney Dunnett . Construction began in 1869 and was not finished until 1892. The facade of the reception building integrates the translocated front of the former Paris Belgian station , the predecessor station of the Gare du Nord there , supplemented by an additional floor and a clock tower .
The station has seventeen platform tracks on nine platforms . Eight of the tracks end under the 65.36 m wide and 160 m long station hall . With its ridge height of 27.15 m, it is the largest hall of this type built in France.
Station concourse and outside platforms
Station concourse
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Traffic significance
Lille-Flandres is the main train station in Lille, but it relinquished part of its importance as the most important train station in 1993 to the newly built through station Lille-Europe , a few hundred meters away, where TGV and Eurostar trains now stop.
InterCity and TER trains stop in Lille-Flandres . These connect Lille-Flandres with Antwerp , Ostend , Liège and Tournai, among others . TGV connections from Paris Nord also end here . The two lines of the Lille tram , the Liller underground and a number of bus routes also stop at the station .
Passenger train with tender locomotive Series 242 TA the SNCF at the exit from the train station (1957)
Diesel-electric locomotive series 51 of the Belgian State Railways NMBS / SNCB in the hall (1985)
Train the TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais with two-system locomotive BB 22293 in the Lille-Flandres (2014)
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Deiss: Vane Cathedral and Sugar Beet Station. A short story about 200 European train stations . Bonn 2010, p. 47.
- ↑ Les gares françaises et japonaises, halle et bâtiment principal at pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr, accessed on April 29, 2020