List of train stations in Paris
This article contains a list of all both Paris railway stations of long-distance passenger traffic and major railway stations of the rail passenger transport and freight transport .
passenger traffic
Long-distance train stations
The sign »( TGV )« stands for the connection to French high-speed lines .
- Gare du Nord (TGV) with trains to Lille, London, Brussels; Associated depot : Landy .
- Gare de l'Est (TGV) in the direction of Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart; Associated parking station: l'Ourcq .
- Gare de Lyon (TGV) in south-east direction: Lyon, Marseille, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Zurich, Bern, Geneva, Turin, Barcelona; Associated depot: Bercy .
- Gare d'Austerlitz (formerly Gare d'Orléans) in the south: Orléans, Limoges (Massif Central), Toulouse; Associated depot: Masséna .
- Gare Montparnasse (TGV) to the west and south-west: Nantes, Bordeaux, Rennes (Brittany), Quimper (Brittany), Hendaye (Spanish border); Associated depot: Châtillon .
- Gare Saint-Lazare in north-west direction: Caen, Rouen, Le Havre (Normandy); Associated depot: Batignolles .
All six are terminal stations and end stops for trains. Travelers who only want to change trains in Paris must either take the Métro or RER (regional rapid transit network, see S-Bahn ) from one station to the other or use through trains that pass the administrative city area in the Paris metropolitan area. (See under mushroom concept for solving this problem in Berlin and under Brussels north-south connecting railway the procedure in Brussels)
TGV transfer stations outside Paris:
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Massy TGV station in the south-west ( , )
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Marne la Vallée-Chessy station to the east ( )
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Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV station ( )
Other important passenger stations
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Gare d'Orsay ( ): former long-distance train station, now a museum and high-speed train station Musée d'Orsay.
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Gare d'Invalides ( ) and Gare du Luxembourg ( ): these two former terminal stations for regional traffic are now also located on the express train.
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La Défense Grande Arche ( ): Regional train station under the high-rise district just outside the city of Paris.
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Châtelet Les Halles : Underground train station in the center of the city where the rapid transit lines (RER) (east-west), (north-south) and (north-east) intersect.
Other important train stations
- Gare de Bercy : vehicle loading for motorail trains (autotrain) as well as the end point of some local trains , e.g. B. the TER Bourgogne
The stations of the on the southern bank of the Seine (from west to east) are also interesting :
- Javel
- Champ de Mars - Tour Eiffel (by the Eiffel Tower)
- Pont de l'Alma
- Invalides
- Musée d'Orsay
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Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame (also )
- The line then continues to Gare d'Austerlitz and the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand .
The remaining express train stations in the city center are (at all there is a connection to the Métro through more or less long tunnels):
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Charles de Gaulle-Étoile ( )
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Auber ( ) and Haussmann ( ), near St Lazare
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Magenta ( ) between Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est (the former accessible through a tunnel, the latter via a short path on the surface)
- Underground platforms for and in the Gare du Nord and for and in the Gare de Lyon
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Nation ( )
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Denfert-Rochereau
Freight transport
There are no longer marshalling yards in Paris, as single wagon traffic in France was completely abandoned by 2015 and the last Parisian marshalling yard (in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges ) was shut down completely in 2011. Important freight stations for the remaining traffic with block trains and container trains are:
- Valenton ( Canton Valenton ): operating and container terminal
- Vaires-sur-Marne ( Canton Vaires-sur-Marne ): disused formerly largest marshalling yard in Paris with still local freight transport functions
- Achères : for the automotive industry in the north-western metropolitan area of Paris, disused marshalling yard
- Gennevilliers : port station
- Rungis : Rungis wholesale food market
literature
- BLIER Dr Gérard: Nouvelle geographie ferroviaire de la France. Paris: La Vie du Rail. Volume (Tome) I: Le réseau: structure et fonctionnement. 1991, ISBN 2-902808-34-8 (out of print) . Volume II: L'organization régionale du trafic. 1993, ISBN 2-902808-43-7 . Volume III: L'impact du chemin de fer. 1996, ISBN 2-902808-58-5 . Also describes in French the railway systems in Paris with all major passenger, marshalling and freight yards.
- CARRIÈRE Bruno / COLLARDEY Bernard: L'Aventure de la Grande Ceinture. Paris: La Vie du Rail. 1st edition: 1992, ISBN 2-902808-40-2 ; 2nd edition: 2002, ISBN 2-902808-05-4 . Describes the large freight ring railway in French including an overview map and various historical and current stations.
Web links
- RER map Shows the location of the stations in relation to each other and to the regional / S-Bahn routes.
- Track plans of some Paris head stations from 1986, some with storage stations (Saint-Lazare: wrong)
- SNCF website on the motorail train (French)