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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
A TGV Sud-Est, the first trainset in regular service.. The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) is a high-speed rail service, which started operation in 1981.. This article is a list of all high-speed train services in 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.
TGV Euroduplex 4729 stationed at Zurich HB headed to Paris Gare de Lyon. TGV Lyria is the brand name used for TGV railway lines connecting France and Switzerland.Lyria is also a corporation that runs the service using the staff of the SNCF in France and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) in Switzerland – the staff consists of one French and one Swiss train manager on the whole journey.
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 ...