Gare de Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy
Gare de Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chessy Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 48°52′11″N 2°46′58″E / 48.86972°N 2.78278°ECoordinates: 48°52′11″N 2°46′58″E / 48.86972°N 2.78278°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) |
TGV RER A OUIGO Eurostar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened |
1992 (RER A) 1994 (TGV) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy is a combined RER (commuter rail) and TGV (high-speed train) station in Chessy, France, about 30 km (19 mi) east of Paris. The station is located inside Disneyland Paris, in front of the entrances to the two theme parks and Disney Village. The station opened as an extension of the RER A in 1992, in conjunction with the opening of the theme park, with Euro Disney S.C.A. contributing €38.1 million of the €126.5 million cost.[1] The TGV part of the station opened two years after the RER station. There are direct TGV services to, among others, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Lyon, Rennes, Lille, Nantes, Limoges, Toulouse, Montpellier, Orléans, Grenoble and Brussels. On 29 June 1996, Eurostar began direct services from London to Disneyland Paris. Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy is also the rail head used for Paris by Ouigo services.
Passengers can travel by TGV from Charles de Gaulle Airport TGV station to this station in less than 10 minutes.
The station has a UK National Rail station code of MCK[2] because it is part of the Eurostar network,[3] despite Eurostar not being part of National Rail.
Train services
From Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy, train services depart to major French cities such as: Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Montpellier, Perpignan, Lille, Strasbourg. International services operate to Brussels in Belgium and London in the United Kingdom.
The following services currently call at Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy:
- high speed services (TGV Ouigo) Marne-la-Vallée - Lyon Saint-Exupéry - Avignon TGV - Marseille
- high speed services (TGV Ouigo) Marne-la-Vallée - Lyon Saint-Exupéry - Nîmes - Montpellier
- high speed services (TGV) Lille - Marne-la-Vallée - Lyon - Marseilles - Cannes - Nice
- high speed services (TGV) Lille - Marne-la-Vallée - Lyon - Nîmes - Montpellier - Toulouse
- high speed services (TGV) Lille - Marne-la-Vallée - Tours-Saint-Pierre-des-Corps - Angoulême - Bordeaux
- high speed services (TGV) Lille - Marne-la-Vallée - Le Mans - Rennes
- high speed services (TGV) Lille - Marne-la-Vallée - Le Mans - Angers - Nantes
- high speed services (TGV) Lille - Arras - Marne-la-Vallée - Lyon - Nîmes - Montpellier
- high speed services (TGV) Lille - Arras - Marne-la-Vallée - Lyon - Marseilles
- high speed services (TGV) Strasbourg - Marne-la-Vallée - Le Mans - Rennes
- high speed services (TGV) Strasbourg - Marne-la-Vallée - Le Mans - Angers - Nantes
- high speed services (TGV) Strasbourg - Marne-la-Vallée - Tours-Saint-Pierre-des-Corps - Bordeaux
- high speed services (TGV) Brussels - Lille - Marne-la-Vallée - Lyon - Marseilles
- high speed services (TGV) Brussels - Lille - Marne-la-Vallée - Lyon - Nîmes - Montpellier - Perpignan
- high speed services (Eurostar) London - Ebbsfleet International - Ashford International - Marne-la-Vallée
- Paris RER services A Cergy le Haut - Conflans - Sartrouville - La Defense - Gare de Lyon - Vincennes - Val-de-Fontenay - Marne-la-Vallée
- Paris RER services A Poissy - Sartrouville - La Defense - Gare de Lyon - Vincennes - Val-de-Fontenay - Marne-la-Vallée
See also
References
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- ↑ Clavé, S. Anton (2007-04-16). The Global Theme Park Industry (1st ed.). CABI. p. 330. ISBN 9781845932084.
- ↑ "National Railway Stations (sorted by three letter code)". www.coris.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
- ↑ "Disneyland Paris". Eurostar. Retrieved 2016-04-20.