Lyon-Saint-Exupéry TGV train station
| Lyon-Saint-Exupéry TGV | |
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 Two coupled TGVs passing through the station, 2011
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| opening | 3rd July 1994 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Santiago Calatrava |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Colombier-Saugnieu |
| Department | Rhône department |
| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 43 '15 " N , 5 ° 4' 33" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in France | |
The Lyon-Saint-Exupéry TGV ( French : Gare de Lyon-Saint-Exupéry TGV ) train station is a long-distance train station at Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport , about 20 kilometers east of central Lyon in France .
history
The station was opened on July 3, 1994 under the name Gare de Satolas . It was called this until the airport was renamed in 2001. The four-year construction project was originally estimated to cost four billion French francs , but was exceeded by 50%.
Transport links
Due to its location, the station is primarily used to transfer passengers to the TGV that stops there on the LGV Rhône-Alpes from Paris to Marseille , which above all enables a meaningful connection to south-east France. The travel time to Paris is around two hours and to Marseille 90 minutes. The trains of the French low-cost provider Ouigo also stop here on the journey between Marne-la-Vallée and Marseille or Montpellier . Since the summer of 2010 it has also been linked to the city of Lyon by the Rhônexpress light rail .
architecture
The architect of the Lyon-Saint-Exupéry TGV train station is the Spaniard Santiago Calatrava , who just managed to assert himself against Richard Rogers in an international architecture competition in 1987 . The station building consists of a 450-meter-long and 56-meter-wide hall made of steel, glass elements and reinforced concrete with connecting corridors to Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport. The central structural element of the station is the 39 meter high main pavilion, whose skeletal shape is often compared to a giant bird.
The station concourse crosses the tracks and was deliberately left empty by the architect in order to enable passengers to experience the space without disturbance. The hall is directly connected to Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport by a moving walkway on a pedestrian bridge . The station has six tracks with two platforms for express trains, the inner two tracks being reserved for the TGV passing through. Around the inner two tracks, Calatrava built a compact tunnel in order to mitigate the pressure wave of the 300 km / h trains. The main supports of the roof are supported almost entirely by the tunnel. V-girders form the inner and outer walls and should create a static impression through their monotonous sequence, which emphasizes the speed of the trains, says Calatrava. The shape of the lower V-beams is based on an abstract shape of people. The roof is supported on both sides by 25 steel girders and creates the impression of movement through several variable rows in the protruding outer roof.
gallery
Exit from Lyon Airport, 2018
V-beam of the outer wall
Movie
- The TGV train station in Lyon-Satolas. ( OT : Satolas - TGV. Un monument à la campagne. ) Documentary film, France, 1998, 27:46 min., Script and director: Catherine Adda, production: Center Georges Pompidou , La Sept Arte , Les Films d'ici, series : Baukunst , first broadcast on March 10, 2001, summary by ARD . With a conversation and sketches by Santiago Calatrava.
Web links
- Lyon-Saint-Exupéry TGV train station. In: Structurae
- Train station information from the SNCF Gares et Connexions
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement: News soon . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , 2001, Issue 5, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 224.
- ↑ Sabine Thiel-Siling (Ed.): Architecture! The 20th Century , Prestel Verlag, ISBN 3-7913-2013-0 , page 174
- ↑ Information in the documentary: The TGV train station in Lyon-Satolas. In: ARD / arte , May 2, 2011.