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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.
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.
These are all the TGV (French: train à grande vitesse, meaning high-speed train) stations, listed alphabetically.This list includes new stations constructed specifically for the TGV as well as existing stations that are simply served by the trains.
Magenta station is a station of the Île-de-France Réseau Express Régional (RER), in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, France.Built on the site of the Gare du Nord, the original name of Magenta station was Nord-Est with the possibility of a connection to both Paris-Nord and Paris-Est.
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.