Gare de Lyon

The Gare de Lyon (Station of Lyon), officially Paris-Gare-de-Lyon, is one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It handles about 90,000,000 passengers every year, making it the third busiest station of France and one of the busiest of Europe. It is the northern terminus of the Paris–Marseille railway. It is named after the city of Lyon, a stop for many long-distance trains departing here, most en route to the south of France. The station is in the XIIe arrondissement, on the north bank of the river Seine, in the east of Paris.

This article is about the mainline station. For the Paris Métro station, see Gare de Lyon (Paris Métro). For other uses, see Gare de Lyon (disambiguation).

Paris-Gare-de-Lyon
SNCF, RER & Transilien station
Location	Place Louis-Armand 75571 Paris Cedex 12 France
Coordinates	48.8448°N 2.3735°E / 48.8448; 2.3735
Owned by	SNCF & RATP
Operated by	SNCF & RATP
Line(s)	Paris–Marseille railway:         Transilien
Platforms	13 (Surface) / 1 (RER A) / 2 (RER D)
Tracks	22 (Surface) / 2 (RER A) / 4 (RER D)
Other information
Station code	8768603
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	12 August 1849 (1849-08-12)
Traffic
Passengers	90,000,000
Rank	3rd busiest in France
Services Preceding station   SNCF   Following station Terminus TGV Le Creusot TGV toward southeastern France Montbard toward Mulhouse Bourg-en-Bresse toward Lausanne Dijon-Ville toward Lausanne Dijon-Ville toward Zürich Mâcon-Loché TGV toward Genève-Cornavin Lyon Saint-Exupéry toward Milan Valence TGV toward Barcelona Sants Thello Dijon toward Venice TER Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Melun toward Laroche-Migennes Transilien Melun toward Montargis or Montereau RER Châtelet–Les Halles toward Saint Germain-en-Laye, Cergy-le-Haut or Poissy Nation toward Boissy-Saint-Léger or Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy Châtelet–Les Halles toward Creil Maisons-Alfort–Alfortville toward Melun or Malesherbes

Outside the station, with its large clock tower

Inside the station

19th Century wall painting by Albert Maignan inside the "Le Train Bleu" restaurant, in the hall of the Paris-Lyon Railway Station.

The station is served by high-speed TGV trains to south and eastern France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain. The station also hosts regional trains and the RER and also the Gare de Lyon metro station. Main line trains depart from 32 platforms in two distinct halls: Hall 1, which is the older train shed, contains tracks labelled with letters from A to N, while the modern addition of Hall 2 contains tracks which are numbered from 5 to 23.[1] There are a further 4 platforms for the RER underneath the main lines.

History

The station was built for the World Exposition of 1900. On multiple levels, it is considered a classic example of the architecture of its time. Most notable is the large clock tower atop one corner of the station, similar in style to the clock tower of the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament, home to Big Ben.

The station houses the Le Train Bleu restaurant, which has served drinks and meals to travellers and other guests since 1901 in an ornately decorated setting.

On 27 June 1988, in the Gare de Lyon train accident, a runaway train crashed into a stationary rush-hour train, killing 56 people and injuring a further 55.

A fire broke out on 28 February 2020,[2] that was reportedly started by Congolese protesters.[3] The station was completely evacuated.

Train services

From Gare de Lyon train services depart to major French cities such as: Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Montpellier, Perpignan, Dijon, Besançon, Mulhouse, Grenoble and a number of destinations in the Alps.

International services operate to Italy: Turin, Milan and Venice, Switzerland: Geneva, Zurich, Basel and Lausanne and Spain: Barcelona.

The following services currently call at Gare de Lyon:

• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Lyon
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Avingon–Marseille
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Avignon–Toulon–Cannes–Nice
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Lyon–Montpellier–Béziers–Narbonne–Perpignan
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Lyon–Montpellier–Perpignan–Girona–Barcelona
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Grenoble
• High speed services (TGV Lyria) Paris–Bellegarde–Geneva (- Lausanne)
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Bellegarde–Annemasse–Evian-les-Bains
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Chambéry–Aix-les-Bains–Annecy
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Lyon- Chambéry–Turin–Milan
• High speed services (TGV Lyria) Paris–Belfort–Mulhouse–Basel (- Zurich)
• High speed services (TGV Lyria) Paris–Dijon–Lausanne
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Dijon–Besançon–Belfort–Mulhouse
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Dijon–Besançon-Viotte
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Dijon–Chalon-sur-Saône
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Lyon–Saint-Étienne
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Valence–Avignon–Miramas
• High speed services (TGV) Paris–Chambéry–Albertville–Bourg-Saint-Maurice (Winter)
• Night train (Thello) Paris–Milan–Verona–Padua–Venice
• Regional services Paris–Montereau–Sens–Laroche-Migennes
• Regional services (Transilien) Paris–Melun–Moret–Nemours–Montargis
• Paris RER services A Saint-Germain-en-Laye–Nanterre-Universite–La Defense–Gare de Lyon–Vincennes–Boissy-Saint-Leger
• Paris RER services A Cergy le Haut–Conflans–Sartrouville–La Defense–Gare de Lyon–Vincennes–Val-de-Fontenay–Marne-la-Vallee (Disneyland)
• Paris RER services A Poissy–Sartrouville–La Defense–Gare de Lyon–Vincennes–Val-de-Fontenay–Marne-la-Vallee (Disneyland)
• Paris RER services D Creil–Orry-la-Ville–Goussainville–Saint Denis–Gare du Nord–Gare de Lyon–Combs-la-Ville–Melun
• Paris RER services D Goussainville–Saint Denis–Gare du Nord–Gare de Lyon–Juvisy–Ris–Corbeil
• Paris RER services D Châtelet–Gare de Lyon–Juvisy–Grigny–Corbeil–Malesherbes
• Paris RER services D Gare de Lyon–Juvisy–Grigny–Corbeil–Melun

Gare de Lyon in films

The station has appeared in the following films :

• 1972:Travels with My Aunt, directed by George Cukor
• 1998:" L'étudiante", Starring Sophie Marceau
• 2005:The Mystery of the Blue Train, an Hercule Poirot mystery novel by Agatha Christie (and its TV adaptation)
• 2007:Mr. Bean's Holiday, directed by Steve Bendelack
• 2010:The Tourist, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

See also

• List of Paris railway stations
• List of stations of the Paris RER
• List of stations of the Paris Métro
• Gare de Lyon rail accident

References

1. >"Plan et orientation–Gare de Lyon". Retrieved 6 September 2015.
2. Miller, Hannah (28 February 2020). "Fire breaks out near Paris' Gare de Lyon rail station, forces evacuation". CNBC. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
3. Willsher, Kim (28 February 2020). "Gare de Lyon in Paris evacuated after fire outside station". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 February 2020.

External links

• Gare de Lyon at Transilien, the official website of SNCF (in French)
• Gare de Lyon at "Gares & Connexions", the official website of SNCF (in French)
• Intercity and TGV schedules from SNCF
• The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005) on IMDb