Gare de l'Est

The Gare de l'Est (pronounced [ɡaʁ də lˈɛst], Station of the East), officially Paris-Est, is one of the six large SNCF termini in Paris. It is in the 10th arrondissement, not far from the Gare du Nord, facing the Boulevard de Strasbourg, part of the north-south axis of Paris created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann. It is one of the largest and the oldest railway stations in Paris, the western terminus of the Paris–Strasbourg railway and the Paris–Mulhouse railway which then proceeds to Basel, Switzerland.

For the Paris Métro station, see Gare de l'Est (Paris Métro).

Paris-Est
Terminus
Main entrance
Location	Place du 11 novembre 1918 75010 Paris
Coordinates
Owned by	SNCF
Line(s)	Paris–Strasbourg railway Paris–Mulhouse railway
Platforms	30
Other information
Station code	8711300
IATA code	XHP
Fare zone	1
Electrified	25 kV 50 Hz 1.5 kV DC (underground RER lines)
Traffic
Passengers (2018)	37 831 139
Services
Preceding station   SNCF   Following station Calais-Ville   Venice Simplon Orient Express London-Paris-Rome   Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof Terminus   Venice Simplon Orient Express Paris-Istanbul   Budapest Keleti pu. Vienna Westbahnhof   Venice Simplon Orient Express Venice-Budapest-London   Calais Ville Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof   Venice Simplon Orient Express Venice-Prague-London   Calais Ville Terminus ICE/TGV 82 Forbach towards Frankfurt ICE/TGV 83 Strasbourg towards Munich TGV inOui Reims Terminus TGV inOui Reims toward Sedan TGV Champagne-Ardenne TGV toward Bar-le-Duc TGV Champagne-Ardenne TGV toward Nancy-Ville TGV Nancy-Ville toward Remiremont TGV Nancy-Ville toward St Dié des Vosges TGV Meuse TGV toward Metz-Ville TGV Metz-Ville toward Luxembourg TGV Saverne toward Strasbourg TGV Strasbourg toward Colmar (Haut-Rhin) Intercités Nogent-sur-Seine toward Belfort TER Grand Est C2 Château-Thierry toward Saint-Dizier Transilien Meaux toward Château-Thierry or La Ferté-Milon Transilien Chelles-Gournay toward Meaux Transilien Tournan toward Coulommiers Transilien Verneuil-l'Étang toward Provins Connections to other stations Preceding station   Paris Métro   Following station Château d'Eau toward Mairie de Montrouge Transfer at: Gare de l'Est Gare du Nord toward Porte de Clignancourt Jacques Bonsergent toward Place d'Italie Transfer at: Gare de l'Est Gare du Nord toward Bobigny – Pablo Picasso Poissonnière toward Villejuif – Louis Aragon or Mairie d'Ivry Transfer at: Gare de l'Est Château-Landon toward La Courneuve – 8 mai 1945

History

View of the entrance foyer

The Gare de l'Est was opened in 1849 by the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer de Paris à Strasbourg (Paris–Strasbourg Railway Company) under the name "Strasbourg platform" (Embarcadère de Strasbourg); an official inauguration with President Louis Napoléon Bonaparte took place the next year. The platform corresponds today with the hall for main-line trains. Designed by architect François Duquesnay, it was renamed the "Gare de l'Est" in 1854, after the expansion of service to Mulhouse.

Renovations followed in 1885 and 1900, part of Haussmann's renovation of Paris. In 1931 it was doubled in size, with the new part of the station built symmetrically with the old part. This transformation changed the surrounding neighbourhood significantly. At the top of the west facade of the Gare de l'Est is a statue by the sculptor Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, representing the city of Strasbourg, while the east end of the station is crowned by a statue personifying Verdun, by Varenne. These two cities are important destinations serviced by Gare de l'Est. On 4 October 1883, the Gare de l'Est saw the first departure of the Orient Express for Istanbul.

The Gare de l'Est is the terminus of a strategic railway network extending towards the eastern part of France, and it saw large mobilizations of French troops, most notably in 1914, at the beginning of World War I. In the main-line train hall, a monumental painting by Albert Herter, Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 dating from 1926, illustrates the departure of these soldiers for the Western front. The SNCF started LGV Est Européenne services from the Gare de l'Est on 10 June 2007, with TGV and Intercity-Express (ICE) services to Northeastern France, Luxembourg, Southern Germany and Switzerland. Trains are initially planned to run at 320 km/h (198 mph), with the potential to run at 350 km/h (217 mph), cutting travel times by up to 2 hours.

Train services

The following services currently call at Paris-Est:

• EuroNight Paris Est - Strasbourg - Berlin - Warsaw - Brest - Minsk - Moscow
• High speed services (TGV inOui ) Paris Est - Reims
• High speed services (TGV inOui ) Paris Est - Reims - Charleville-Mézières - Sedan
• High speed services TGV Paris Est - Champagne Adrennes TGV - Chalons-en-Champagne - Bar-le-Duc
• High speed services TGV Paris Est - (Champagne Ardennes TGV/Meuse TGV) - Nancy
• High speed services TGV Paris Est - Nancy - Epinal - Remiremont
• High speed services TGV Paris Est - Nancy - St Dié des Vosges
• High speed services TGV Paris Est - Nancy - Strasbourg
• High speed services TGV Paris Est - (Meuse TGV) - Metz
• High speed services TGV Paris Est - Metz - Thionville - Luxembourg
• High speed services TGV/ICE Paris Est - Saarbrücken - Kaiserslautern - Mannheim - Frankfurt
• High speed services TGV Paris Est - (Saverne) - Strasbourg
• High speed services TGV Paris Est - Strasbourg - Colmar
• High speed services TGV/ICE Paris Est - Strasbourg - Karlsruhe - Stuttgart
• High speed services TGV/ICE Paris Est - Strasbourg - Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich
• Intercity services Paris Est - Troyes - Chaumont - Culmont-Chalindrey - Vesoul - Belfort
• Regional services TER Grand Est (C2) Paris Est - Chateau-Thierry - Épernay - Chalons-en-Champagne - St Dizier
• Regional services Transilien Paris Est - Meaux - Chateau Thierry
• Regional services Transilien Paris Est - Meaux - La Ferte-Milon
• Regional services Transilien Paris Est - Chelles Gournay - Meaux
• Regional services Transilien Paris Est - Tournan - Coulommiers
• Regional services Transilien Paris Est - Longueville - Provins

Series	Route
TGV	Paris-Est - Reims - Rethel - Charleville-Mézières - Sedan
TGV	Paris-Est - Nancy-Ville - Lunéville - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Metro services

Main article: Gare de l'Est (Paris Métro)

• Métro:
  • Lines 4 (Porte de Clignancourt—Porte d'Orléans) and 5 (Place d'Italie - Bobigny – Pablo Picasso): service to the Gare du Nord.
  • Line 7 (La Courneuve – 8 Mai 1945-Mairie d'Ivry/Villejuif – Louis Aragon (Paris Métro))
• Travelling between Gare de l'Est and other Paris main line stations:
  • Gare du Nord: Walk to the station, or take Métro Line 4 or 5.
  • Gare Montparnasse: Take Métro Line 4.
  • Gare de Lyon: Take Métro Line 4 to Châtelet and then Line 1, 14 or RER A to Gare de Lyon, or take bus 65.
  • Gare d'Austerlitz: Take Métro Line 5.
  • Gare Saint-Lazare: Take Métro Line 7 to Opéra and then Line 3 to Saint-Lazare, or take RER E from Magenta (connected to Gare du Nord).
• Travelling to points of interest
  • Disneyland Paris: Take Métro Line 4 to Gare de Châtelet – Les Halles then take the RER Line A to Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy.

Destinations served from the Gare de l'Est

Augsburg Basel Bar-le-Duc Belfort Bern Châlons-en-Champagne Charleville-Mézières Château-Thierry Chaumont Colmar Culmont-Chalindrey

Épernay Frankfurt Forbach Karlsruhe Lausanne Luxembourg Mannheim Meaux Metz Moscow Munich

Nancy Reims Remiremont Saarbrücken Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Saint-Dizier Saverne Sedan

Strasbourg Stuttgart Thionville Troyes Ulm Vesoul Vitry-le-François Zurich

See also

• List of Paris railway stations
• List of stations of the Paris RER
• List of stations of the Paris Métro

References

External links

• Gare de l'Est at Transilien, the official website of SNCF (in French)
• Gare de l'Est at "Gares & Connexions", the official website of SNCF (in French)
• TER Champagne-Ardenne
• Transilien Network Map
• Transilien