Gare de Lyon

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Inside the Gare de Lyon.

Inside the station, with TGV trains.

Outside the station, with its big clock tower.

The Gare de Lyon is a major railway station in Paris, France. It is named after the city of Lyon, an en route stop of many of the long-distance trains departing from its platforms, of which the vast majority of trains continue on to the south of France. In principle the station's SNCF services run to the south and east of France. The station also hosts regional trains and RER. It is served by the Gare de Lyon metro station.

The station was built for the World Exposition of 1900. Built on multiple levels, it is considered a classic example of the architecture of its time. Most notable is the large clock tower atop one corner of the station, similar in style to the clock tower of the UK Houses of Parliament, home to Big Ben.

The station houses a restaurant, Le Train Bleu, which has served drinks and meals to travellers and other guests since 1901 in an ornately-decorated setting.

On 27 June 1988, a runaway train crashed into a stationary rush-hour train killing 56 people and injuring a further 55!

1 Réseau Gare de Lyon
- 1.1 Suburban (Île de France / Transilien & RER)
- 1.2 Inter City (Grandes Lignes) and TGV
2 See also
3 Travelling between Gare de Lyon and other Paris mainline stations
4 External links

[edit] Réseau Gare de Lyon

For more information on Réseau Gare de Lyon, see main article.

[edit] Suburban (Île de France / Transilien & RER)

For more information on Transilien, see main article.

Gare de Lyon - Laroche-Migennes (TER Bourgogne)
Gare de Lyon - Montargis (Transilien)
Gare de Lyon - Montereau
Gare de Lyon - Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons
RER Line A
RER Line D

[edit] Inter City (Grandes Lignes) and TGV

The following SNCF Grandes Lignes intercity train services operate out of Gare de Lyon:

Gare de Lyon - Dijon, Auxerre, Clamecy and Corbigny)
Gare de Lyon - Nevers
Gare de Lyon - Clermont-Ferrand - Marseille/Beziers

The following SNCF TGV train services operate out of Gare de Lyon:

Bourgogne (16 departures per day)
Rhône-Alpes (32 departures for Lyon per day)
Franche-Comté (8 departures for Besançon per day)
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (16 departures for Marseille and 6 departures for Cannes and Nice per day)
Languedoc-Roussillon (12 departures for Montpellier per day)
Switzerland (7 departures for Geneva, Lausanne, Berne and Zurich per day)
Italy (Turin and Milan)

[edit] See also

[edit] Travelling between Gare de Lyon and other Paris mainline stations

RER Line D (towards Orry-la-Ville-Coye) ensures swift travel to Gare du Nord, but to reach other termini, a traveller must use the Métro. Line 5 (going north to Bobigny Pablo Picasso) provides the best way to reach Gare de l'Est; either walk to nearby Quai de la Rapée station, or take Line 1 from Lyon north to Bastille station and change there. This is a second way to reach Paris Nord.

Gare Saint-Lazare is the terminus of the northbound Line 14 which operates from Lyon, but it is slightly trickier to travel to Montparnasse. Taking the Métro Line 14 south to Bercy and changing for Line 6 is one way, and probably the best.

It's quickest to walk to Gare d'Austerlitz.