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The railway from Paris to Marseille is an 862-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the southern port city of Marseille, France, via Dijon and Lyon. The railway was opened in several stages between 1847 and 1856, when the final section through Lyon was opened. [ 2 ]
It is the southern terminus of the Paris–Marseille railway and the western terminus of the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway. It opened on 8 January 1848, having been built for the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) on the land of the former Saint Charles Cemetery.
The LGV Méditerranée (French: Ligne à Grande Vitesse; English: Mediterranean high-speed line) is a 250-kilometre-long (160-mile) French high-speed rail line running from north to south between Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence, Drôme and Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, also featuring a connection to Nîmes, Gard to the west.
The train station was the stopping point of some Marseille trains linking Paris to the Côte d'Azur (the Paris-Côte d'Azur and the Blue Train in particular), which avoided the creep in the Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles by using the Chartreux connection (service restored at the end of 2015). The existence of a tram line (old Line 68; current ...
The Paris suburban rail services represents alone 82% of the French rail annual ridership. [1] [2] With a total of 100.2 billion passenger-kilometres, [1] [2] France has the fifth-most used passenger network worldwide, and second-most used in Europe after that of Russia. [8] France is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC).
[2] [7] After Chambéry, the trains run along the single-tracked Saint-André-le-Gaz–Chambéry railway , which leads to the Lyon–Marseille railway , [25] [11] and the final intermediate stop at Lyon-Part-Dieu. [2] [7] Joining the Paris–Marseille railway, the train returns to 25,000 volts AC to reach the terminus at Paris Gare de Lyon. [6]
The rolling stock comprises 36 4-car trains, named MPM 76. [11] Trains have a capacity of 472 passengers (including 182 seats). MPM 76 trains use the rubber tyre metro technology developed by the RATP for the Paris métro. Trains were built in Valenciennes, France, by a group of French companies which are now part of Alstom group. A first batch ...
The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon (French pronunciation: [paʁi ɡaʁ də ljɔ̃]), is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France.It handles about 148.1 million passengers annually according to the estimates of the SNCF in 2018, with SNCF railways and the RER D accounting for around 110 million and the RER A accounting for 38 million, [citation needed ...