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Lyon-Part-Dieu is the busiest French train station outside of Île-de-France. There are five other stations operating within the city limits: Perrache (in the city center ), Vaise, Saint-Paul, Gorge de Loup, and Jean Macé. The Rhônexpress tram connects Lyon-Part-Dieu to Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport, located in Colombier-Saugnieu, whose train ...
History Voiture à impériale. Double deck carriages date to at least as early as the second half of the 19th century. In France several hundred voitures à impériale with seats on the roof were in use by the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest, Chemins de fer de l'Est and Chemins de fer du Nord by 1870, having been in use for over 2 decades; the upper deck was open at the sides with a light roof or ...
Electrification. 25 kV 50 Hz. Operating speed. 200 km/h [2] (design speed 250 km/h) The Atlantic Axis high-speed rail line, also called Atlantic Corridor high-speed rail line, is a high-speed railway line that links A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra and Vigo in Spain. The Atlantic Axis was inaugurated in April 2015.
Gare Montparnasse. Gare Montparnasse ( French pronunciation: [ɡaʁ mɔ̃paʁnas]; Montparnasse station), officially Paris Montparnasse, one of the seven large Paris railway termini, is located in the 14th and 15th arrondissements . The station opened in 1840, was rebuilt in 1852 and relocated in 1969 to a new station just south of the original ...
Colmar station (Haut-Rhin) / 48.072389°N 7.346944°E / 48.072389; 7.346944. Colmar station ( French: Gare de Colmar) is a railway station located in Colmar, in the Haut-Rhin département of Alsace, France. The same design was used in the construction of Gdansk's principal railway station in Poland.
Paris–Marseille railway. 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] The opening of the LGV Sud-Est high ...
t. e. The tram-train de l'ouest lyonnais (in English, Western Lyon tram-train) is a tram-train network in the urban area of Lyon in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, with two lines departing from Lyon-Saint-Paul station. This network is managed as a part of the TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional train system and it is operated by SNCF Voyageurs .
After the death of Charles de Gaulle on 13 November 1970, Place de l'Étoile was renamed Place Charles de Gaulle and the station was renamed as Charles de Gaulle–Étoile. The RER line A station, 30 m deeper, opened on 21 February 1970, initially as the terminus of a shuttle from La Défense. The RER A was extended to Auber on 23 November 1971.