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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The livery is the same as that of TGV Réseau sets (silver and blue). From 2013 to 2019, all of the TGV POS trainsets were shifted from LGV Est to the TGV Lyria service (a joint-venture by SNCF and the Swiss Federal Railways) between France and Switzerland, replacing the nine TGV Sud-Est trainsets that had been used.