Paris-Bercy-Bourgogne-Pays-d'Auvergne train station
| Paris-Bercy-Bourgogne-Pays-d'Auvergne | |
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| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 6 and 10 for loading cars |
| IBNR | 8702455 |
| opening | 1970 |
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| City / municipality | Paris |
| Department | Paris |
| region | Île-de-France |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 50 '21 " N , 2 ° 22' 59" E |
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| List of train stations in France | |
The Paris-Bercy-Bourgogne-Pays-d'Auvergne train station (until September 13, 2016 Gare de Paris-Bercy , colloquially Gare de Bercy ) is a terminus in the French capital Paris . It is located in the 12th arrondissement , not far from the Gare de Lyon .
history
The Gare de Bercy was only recently created to accommodate motorail trains . It was built on the site of a former freight yard , which was primarily used to supply the city with wine.
At the end of the 18th century, river boatmen had started to unload their wine barrels from the Bourgogne in Bercy on the eastern edge of the city, which were transported on the Seine to Paris . Since the place was an independent municipality until 1860 , they avoided the city tax due on imports into Paris, and the local tourist restaurants also benefited from it. Until the construction of the Paris-Marseille railway through the railway company Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) many of the camp had already emerged.
Within a few years, the railway took over the entire transport of wine. To the south-east of the tracks leading to the Gare de Lyon, a freight station was built, the tracks of which had a total length of 9,480 m. The freight wagons could be moved to or directly into the warehouse via 42 turntables . This happened first with horses and later with Latil - tractors . In the 1930s, an average of 18,000 barrel wagons and 5000 freight wagons loaded with wine barrels, i.e. H. 3.4 million hectoliters of wine, counted. In addition, similar quantities of wines from Algeria , Spain and Portugal were delivered to Bercy from Rouen on Seine ships.
In the 1960s, the demolition or conversion of the warehouse buildings began. The freight wagons were breaking new ground, and the transport of wine increasingly shifted to the road. In 1977 the new train station was opened, which initially only served to load motor vehicles into motorail trains . 25 years later, as the Gare de Lyon was no longer sufficient during rush hour, the Gare de Bercy was also opened for tourist traffic - initially for night trains.
traffic
Mainly Intercités , but also regional trains ( TER and Transilien ) run at Gare de Bercy .
There are connections with the TER to Avallon , Auxerre , Clamecy , Dijon and Lyon and with Intercités to Montargis , Nevers and Clermont-Ferrand .
The motorail trains ran all year round to Avignon , Fréjus , Marseille , Nice and Toulon . Perpignan was only approached in summer. The special thing about the car trains was that they did not carry any passenger coaches; People therefore had to travel parallel to the car train from Gare de Lyon or another train station in the city to their destination. In mid-December 2019 the car train service was stopped.
In addition to the trains of the French railway company SNCF , two lines of the Paris Métro run at the underground station Bercy . These are lines 6 and 14 , which are operated by the RATP .
Surroundings
The AccorHotels Arena sports arena is located in the immediate vicinity of the train station .
Individual evidence
- ^ Paris-Bercy change de nom et devient Paris-Bercy-Bourgogne-Pays d'Auvergne. SNCF, September 13, 2016, archived from the original on June 19, 2018 ; Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
- ^ A b Clive Lamming: Paris au temps des gares . Parigrams, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-84096-711-8 , pp. 104 f .