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The Gare de l'Est (pronounced [ɡaʁ də lɛst]; English: "Station of the East" or "East station"), officially Paris Est, is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It is located in the 10th arrondissement , not far southeast from the Gare du Nord , facing the Boulevard de Strasbourg , part of the north–south ...
[2] From September 2006 to June 2007, Gare de l'Est and its metro station underwent a major renovation thanks to the Gares en mouvement and Un métro + beau projects, to accommodate a more beautiful and modern station the LGV Est line. On the platforms of Lines 5 and 7, orange tiles and blue paint gave way to traditional white tiles.
These are all the TGV ... Façade of l'Est, Paris Façade of Gare de Lyon, ... This page was last edited on 24 October 2024, at 21:48 ...
Gare de Paris-Bestiaux, abandoned; Gare de Paris-Gobelins, former freight station, under pavement, visible from the south of Rue Nationale; Gare de la Glacière-Gentilly; Gare de Grenelle-marchandises; Gare du Champ de Mars from the Exposition Universelle of 1878, moved in 1897 to Asnières-sur-Seine (Gare des Carbonnets), threatened by ruin ...
Illustration of the alignment of the second phase of the LGV Est. On 9 June 2007, the TGV Est made its inaugural voyage, leaving from the Gare de l'Est at 7:36am. Notable passengers included: François Fillon, the French Prime Minister, Alain Juppé, the Minister of Sustainable Development, and the Argentinian Ambassador to France.
In 2007, the world's fastest scheduled rail journey was a start-to-stop average speed of 279.4 km/h (173.6 mph) between the Gare de Champagne-Ardenne and Gare de Lorraine on the LGV Est, [4] [5] not surpassed until the 2013 reported average of 283.7 km/h (176.3 mph) express service on the Shijiazhuang to Zhengzhou segment of China's ...
Starting from the south (LGV Sud-Est), the line begins at Coubert junction and heads northeast.Near Tournan, there is a link to the Paris-Coulommiers line. Further north, Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy TGV station (transfer to the RER A) serves the new town of Marne-la-Vallée and Disneyland Paris theme parks.
The Gare du Nord station of the Paris Metro is served by lines 4 and 5 and can be reached through underground connecting tunnels can be accessed from levels -1 or -2. Both stations offer a connection between Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est. There is also a connection to La Chapelle station on Line 2 of the Paris Metro. An underground connecting ...