Paris-Gare-de-Lyon train station
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| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 23 |
| IBNR | 8700012 |
| opening | August 12, 1849 |
| Profile on SNCF.fr | Code: frply |
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| architect | Marius Toudoire |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Paris |
| Department | Paris |
| region | Île-de-France |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 50 '41 " N , 2 ° 22' 25" E |
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| List of train stations in France | |
The Paris-Gare-de-Lyon train station , colloquially Gare de Lyon (German Lyoner Bahnhof ), is one of the most important train stations in Europe and at the same time one of the sights of Paris . It is located in the 12th arrondissement .
Long-distance services operate from the Gare de Lyon TGV to south and south-east France as well as to Switzerland ( Basel and Geneva ), to Germany ( Freiburg im Breisgau ), to Spain ( Barcelona ) and to Italy ( Turin and Venice ). There is also a night train connection to Venice. There are interchanges in the RER trains of lines A and D . In the underground metro station compounds consist to the metro lines 1 and 14 . With around 83 million travelers a year (227,000 per day), the Gare de Lyon is one of the three busiest train stations in Paris.
History and description
old trainstation
As the most important French railroad company of the late 19th century, the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) had a relatively modest train station in Paris. The old Gare de Lyon only had three departure and two arrival tracks under its two halls . The station building was not built at the head end across the stump tracks , but north along the tracks to the Rue de Chalon. In 1880 1,600,000 departing passengers were counted, in 1896 the number was already double. It was to be expected that the station would not be able to cope with the passengers of the world exhibition planned for 1900 . Therefore, its demolition and a new building at the same location were planned in the 1890s.
New train station
The new station was built in the years 1895–1902 by the architect Marius Toudoire , who had already planned the Bordeaux-Saint-Jean station; The client was again PLM. Due to the limited space, a system on two floors one above the other was briefly considered. However, this plan was discarded due to foreseeable problems during rush hour, and the Rue de Bercy was relocated to make room. The new train station with thirteen tracks on a single level and a station building at the head end still exists in this form today. Only the access ramps, stairs and walls on Boulevard Diderot have been preserved from the old system.
The richly decorated facade is around 100 meters wide and has seven entrances. The clock tower integrated into its southeast corner is 64 meters high; he wears four clocks with dials each 6.40 meters in diameter. The station concourse has two parallel, glazed gable roofs , on its northeast side a smaller hall was built for departing passengers. In front of this were a building and several stub tracks for outgoing luggage. The arrival and baggage hall on the southwest side was demolished during the construction of the underground train station in the 1960s.
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In 1936 the project of an express subway was presented, from which the S-Bahn -like RER network later emerged. At first, however, indecision on the part of the state organs and then the Second World War prevented the implementation of the plans. They were not taken up again until 1960. On the southwest side of the station, an underground suburban station was built between 1962 and 1972 in the area of the former arrival hall parallel to Rue de Bercy, and under this a station for the RER line A was opened on December 9, 1977 . Since 1981 the Gare de Lyon has been the northern starting point for the TGV high-speed trains on the first French high-speed line, LGV Sud-Est .
On June 27, 1988, a serious train accident occurred in which 56 people were killed and 57 injured when a train entered the station without braking and hit a stationary train. In 1995, the RER line D was led from the west to the subterranean suburban station, which thus became a through station .
End of track with class BB 7200 electric locomotive (1979)
TGVs in the Gare de Lyon
View from the east with two TGV SE (1987)
Track 2 of the subterranean fore station with a class Z 5300 railcar (2008)
Station of the RER line A
Le Train Bleu restaurant
The well-known Le Train Bleu restaurant is located in the station building above the entrance hall with magnificent, listed Belle Époque furnishings from around 1900. It was also designed by Marius Toudoire; the 41 paintings inside were commissioned by 30 painters . The themes of the murals are primarily the cities and regions that the PLM railway network once connected with Paris .
The “Golden Hall” (18.5 meters long, 9 meters wide and 11 meters high) and the “Great Hall” (26 meters long, 13 meters wide and 11 meters high) are particularly richly furnished.
Facade above the entrance hall with clock tower, behind the arched windows the restaurant Le Train Bleu
Interior of the Train Bleu
The Train Bleu kitchen area is under the roof
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Subway station
With the opening of the first line of the Métro on July 19, 1900, the station of the same name on Line 1 went into operation. This made the Gare de Lyon the first Parisian train station to be connected to the underground network. In 1906, the then four-track station was also the temporary terminus of line 5 for several months . It lies in front of the facade of the long-distance train station, lengthways under Boulevard Diderot.
On October 15, 1998, the station of the fully automatic line 14 was opened in the tunnel under the Rue de Bercy south parallel to the RER tracks .
literature
- Karen Bowie (ed.): Les grandes gares parisiennes au XIXe siècle . Paris 1984, ISBN 2-905118-01-6 .
- Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy: Le décor du Buffet de la Gare de Lyon . In: Karen Bowie (ed.), Les grandes gares parisiennes au XIXe siècle , Paris 1984, ISBN 2-905118-01-6 , pp. 144–158.
- NN : Paris. The nicest restaurants . DuMont Verlag Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7701-3300-5 , pp. 227-235.
- Stefan Vockrodt: The gateway to the Mediterranean. The Gare de Lyon - the nucleus of express transport . In: Eisenbahnen in Paris , Eisenbahngeschichte Spezial 2 (2015), ISBN 978-3-937189-94-9 , pp. 30–32.
Movie
- Railway station cathedrals - Europe's travel palaces. Paris. (OT: Gares d'Europe, les temples du voyage. Paris. ) Documentary, France, 2018, 51:58 min., Script and direction: Jeremy JP Fekete , production: Yuzu Productions, arte France, series: Bahnhofskathedralen - Europes Reise Palaces (OT: Gares d'Europe, les temples du voyage ), first broadcast: October 27, 2018 on arte, summary by ARD .
Web links
- Railway station info
- Paris-Gare-de-Lyon train station. In: Structurae
- Le Train Bleu restaurant (en, fr)
Individual evidence
- ^ TGV: New connection between Freiburg and Paris. In: Eisenbahn-Kurier , August 30, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d e Clive Lamming: Paris au temps des gares . Parigrams, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-84096-711-8 , pp. 114 ff .
- ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . 2nd Edition. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 131 .
- ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes , p. 323.