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This is the only Paris railway station that has palm trees growing in it.
The journey from here to Lyon by TGV takes about two hours, give or take a few minutes. People who used to fly to Lyon now take the train, and I'm not sure they even have flights to Lyon any more.
Trains also leave here for destinations in southern France, the Alps, Switzerland, Italy and Greece. For instance you could go from here to Geneva by TGV in about three and a half hours.
Second photo: The traffic out in front of Gare de Lyon is still as chaotic as it always was. Leave a Comment
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These folks at the Gare d'Austerlitz are boarding a train for Orleans from track 14.
From here you could also take a Corail train to Bordeaux (Corail simply being a brand name of the SNCF for some of its trains of the more traditional sort), but it would take 6 hours and 24 minutes to get there, over twice as long as the journey by TGV from the Montparnasse station.
Second photo: If I had turned just a little bit further to the right when I was taking this photo, you could have seen the Gare d'Austerlitz, but as it is you'll just have to take my word for it that the station is just off to the right from that green patch, which is the Jardin des Plantes (Garden of Plants). Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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 1. In the EuroCity train from
Frankfurt to Paris by Nemorino, 3 more photos
At the moment (summer 2007) there is only one through train per day, an ICE that leaves Frankfurt at 6:34 in the morning and arrives at Paris East Station four hours and seven minutes later. But there are two other connections which involve changing from one ICE train to another in Saarbrücken, the reason for this being that they do not yet have enough ICEs that are equipped to run on French tracks.
Starting in December 2007 they are planning to run five direct high-speed ICE trains per day in each direction.
Second photo: The EuroCity trains no longer had dining cars for the last few years, but they did have vendors coming through on both the German and the French sides of the border, selling quite different kinds of coffee by the way. The vendor in this photo is on the French side, as you can tell from the stacks of individual-filtered plastic coffee cups. These make good coffee but are not environmentally-friendly as they use four different kinds of plastic for the cup, the handle, the filter and the cover.
Third photo: Bicycle transport was still possible in the EuroCity trains, but is not possible in the InterCityExpress (ICE). The General German Bicycle Club (ADFC), of which I am proud to be a member, is campaigning on this issue.
Fourth photo: Arrival by EuroCity at Gare de l'Est (East Station) in Paris, June 2006. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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 1. Gare Saint-Lazare from
Place de l'Europe by Nemorino, 4 more photos
Second photo: Trains arriving at Gare Saint-Lazare.
Third photo: As at the East and North Stations, there is a major construction project underway here at Gare Saint-Lazare, designed to modernize the station, optimize access and create an attractive public square at the front.
Fourth photo: People waiting for their trains. From here you can get trains to the suburbs and to cities like Rouen, Le Havre, Cherbourg and Dieppe.
Fifth photo: These posters hanging from the ceiling are meant to suggest that all these folks have covered up their cars for the summer and have gone on vacation by train instead. This is of course rather tongue-in-cheek considering the actual vacation habits of French automobile owners, but it's a clever advertising campaign for that very reason. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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This is where the high-speed Thalys trains arrive from Belgium and the Netherlands, and from Aachen and Cologne in Germany, and where the EuroStar trains arrive after coming through the channel tunnel from London.
Second photo: Tracks and trains at the North Station, as seen from Boulevard de la Chapelle.
Third photo: Here a EuroStar train is arriving from London. The four EuroStar tracks are carefully fenced off for security reasons.
Fourth and fifth photos: Work is now in progress to re-allocate the space in front of the North Station, so as to provide better access to the station and reduce through traffic that is just going by. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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 1. Gare Montparnasse from the
Montparnasse Tower by Nemorino, 2 more photos
Second and third photos: Since the TGV trains are quite long, there is now a new entrance to the station for those who want to get on at the front of the train. This is somewhat grandly called "Gare Montparnasse 2 – TGV". Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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This is where you arrive by train if you take the direct route between Frankfurt and Paris. The station has been upgraded considerably in recent years in honor of the new high-speed TGV-Est line.
Second photo: People in Gare de l'Est.
Third photo: Memorial plaques for people killed in the Second World War.
Fourth photo: Roofed bicycle stands in front of the station. These are for people's own bikes, but there are also two Velib' stations close by.
Velib' 10161, 10023
Métro Gare de l'Est
GPS 48°52'37.55" North; 2°21'33.68" East
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 TGVs waiting to go. by tiabunna
The long distance railways in France are run by the SNCF and 'puffing billies' definitely are not part of their fleet! Many of the trains, such as the ones in the photo, now are TGVs (Train a grande vitesse, tr 'High Speed Trains') which cruise along at over 250km/hr, it's interesting to think that the Ferrari also appearing in my 'transport tips' would have no speed advantage! What's more, these do not have to contend with traffic and many are express to their destination, which means that it is possible to get quite a way from Paris on a day's return excursion.
I took the TGV from Gare Montparnasse to Tours, a trip of 230km by road: the TGV ate the distance in about 1.5 hours, with one stop, and it was pleasant to watch the countryside scrolling past the picture windows. Saving time further, the train travels between city centres, avoiding the problems of getting to airports and the inherent airport delays. The fares are more or less comparable to discount airlines and you do need to pre-book your seat. Note though that the SNCF website does not seem to allow for bookings from some countries - I had to book through my local tourist agency. Yes, there also are discount fares for seniors, international seniors cards are accepted.
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They had a brass band on platform 4 of the Gare de l'Est in Paris on the morning of June 10, 2007, to give us all a big send-off on the first regularly scheduled TGV train on the new high-speed railway line from Paris to Strasbourg.
TGV means "train of great speed", and it really is, because it runs at 320 kilometers per hour (nearly 200 miles per hour) on the newly built tracks. So now it only takes two hours and twenty minutes to get from Paris to Strasbourg (instead of four hours), and by the year 2014 they are going to build another new section of tracks and get that time down to one hour and fifty minutes.
Second photo: In addition to the brass band, there were also several ladies who gave flowers to all of us passengers.
Third photo: These poor press photographers got herded up and down the platform just before we left. At least some of them must have got some good shots, because the papers were full of photos the next day.
Fourth photo: Second class on the TGV from Paris to Strasbourg.
Fifth photo: A big poster on a building in the Avenue de France, Paris, showing how the new railway line TGV-Est européenne looks from the air. Leave a Comment
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AUTOMATIC LUGGAGE BOX:
* Angers, Avignon-centre, Bordeaux, Cannes, Lyon-Perrache, Marne –la Vallée Chessy, Marseilles, Nantes, Nice, Toulouse.
PARIS
* Gares de Paris: Austerlitz/Est/Lyon/Montparnasse/Nord.
Open 7am-11pm
The rate is depending of the size:
3,40 € (1), 5 € (1) ou 7,5 € (1) for 72 hours.
Austerlitz = gate 27, 7am-11pm
Saint Lazare = no
Gare du Nord = 7am-11pm
Gare de l'est = 7am-11pm
Gare de Lyon = 6.30am-11.30pm
Montparnasse = 5am-1am
MANUAL LUGGAGE BOX:
* Dijon, Lille-Flandres, Lyon-Part Dieu, Metz, Mulhouse, Rennes, Strasbourg. Ouverture périodique en gares de Saint-Raphaël, Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Moutiers et Saint-Gervais-les-Bains.
Rates: 4,50 € (1) per lugage (valise, colis), for 24 hours.
Rates: 5,30 € (1) bike, fauteuil roulant for 24 hours.
(1) Rates on 01/08/2002.
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