Gare de l'Est

The Gare de l'Est (pronounced [ɡaʁ də lɛst]; English: "Station of the East" or "East station"), officially Paris-Est, is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It is located in the 10th arrondissement, not far southeast from the Gare du Nord, facing the Boulevard de Strasbourg, part of the north–south axis of Paris created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann.

For the Paris Métro station, see Gare de l'Est (Paris Métro).

Paris-Est SNCF TGV TER Transilien
Terminus
Main entrance
General information
LocationPlace du 11 novembre 1918
75010 Paris
France
Owned bySNCF
Line(s)Paris–Strasbourg railway
Paris–Mulhouse railway
Platforms30
Construction
ArchitectFrançois-Alexandre Duquesney
Other information
Station code87113001
IATA codeXHP
Fare zone1
History
Opened5 July 1849
Electrified25 kV 50 Hz
1.5 kV DC (underground RER lines)
Passengers
202021 987 629 [1]
Rank5th in France
Services
Preceding station Venice-Simplon Orient Express Following station
Calais-Ville
towards London Victoria
 London–Paris–Rome Innsbruck
towards Rome
Terminus Paris–Istanbul Budapest Keleti
towards Istanbul
Vienna Westbahnhof
towards Venice
 Venice–Budapest–London Calais-Ville
towards London Victoria
Frankfurt
towards Venice
 Venice–Prague–London
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Forbach
towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
 ICE/TGV 82 Terminus
Terminus ICE/TGV 83 Strasbourg
towards München Hbf
Preceding station SNCF Following station
Terminus TGV inOui
 Reims
Terminus
Reims
towards Sedan
Champagne-Ardenne TGV
towards Bar-le-Duc, Nancy-Ville, Remiremont, St Dié des Vosges, Metz-Ville, Luxembourg, Strasbourg-Ville or Colmar (Haut-Rhin)
Preceding station Ouigo Following station
Terminus Grande Vitesse Metz
towards Strasbourg
Preceding station Transilien Transilien Following station
Terminus Line P Meaux
towards Château-Thierry or La Ferté-Milon
Chelles-Gournay
towards Meaux
Tournan
towards Coulommiers
Verneuil-l'Étang
towards Provins
Preceding station TER Grand Est Following station
Terminus C02 La Ferté-sous-Jouarre
towards Strasbourg or Saint-Dizier
C04 Longueville
towards Mulhouse or Dijon
Connections to other stations
Preceding station Paris Métro Paris Métro Following station
Château d'Eau
towards Bagneux–Lucie Aubrac
 Line 4
transfer at Gare de l'Est
 Gare du Nord
towards Porte de Clignancourt
Jacques Bonsergent
towards Place d'Italie
 Line 5
transfer at Gare de l'Est
 Gare du Nord
towards Bobigny–Pablo Picasso
Poissonnière
towards Villejuif–Louis Aragon or Mairie d'Ivry
 Line 7
transfer at Gare de l'Est
 Château-Landon
towards La Courneuve–8 mai 1945

Opened in 1849, it is currently the fifth-busiest of the six main railway stations in Paris before the Gare d'Austerlitz. The Gare de l'Est is the western terminus of the Paris–Strasbourg railway and Paris–Mulhouse railway which then proceeds to Basel, Switzerland.

History
View of the entrance foyer

The Gare de l'Est was opened in 1849 by the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer de Paris à Strasbourg (Paris–Strasbourg Railway Company) under the name "Strasbourg platform" (Embarcadère de Strasbourg); an official inauguration with President Louis Napoléon Bonaparte took place the next year. The platform corresponds today with the hall for main-line trains. Designed by architect François Duquesnay, it was renamed the "Gare de l'Est" in 1854, after the expansion of service to Mulhouse.

Renovations followed in 1885 and 1900, as part of Haussmann's renovation of Paris. In 1931, it was doubled in size, with the new part of the station built symmetrically with the old part. This transformation changed the surrounding neighbourhood significantly. At the top of the west facade of the Gare de l'Est is a statue by the sculptor Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, representing the city of Strasbourg, while the east end of the station is crowned by a statue personifying Verdun, by Varenne. These two cities are important destinations serviced by Gare de l'Est. On 4 October 1883, the Gare de l'Est saw the first departure of the Orient Express for Istanbul.

The Gare de l'Est is the terminus of a strategic railway network extending towards the eastern part of France, and it saw large mobilizations of French troops, most notably in 1914, at the beginning of World War I. In the main-line train hall, a monumental painting by Albert Herter, Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 dating from 1926, illustrates the departure of these soldiers for the Western front. The SNCF started LGV Est Européenne services from the Gare de l'Est on 10 June 2007, with TGV and Intercity-Express (ICE) services to Northeastern France, Luxembourg, Southern Germany and Switzerland. Trains are initially planned to run at 320 km/h (198 mph), with the potential to run at 350 km/h (217 mph), cutting travel times by up to 2 hours.

Train services

The following services currently call at Paris-Est:[2]

  • EuroNight Paris Est - Strasbourg - Berlin - Warsaw - Brest - Minsk - Moscow
  • High speed services (TGV inOui ) Paris Est - Reims
  • High speed services (TGV inOui ) Paris Est - Reims - Charleville-Mézières - Sedan
  • High speed services TGV Paris Est - Champagne Adrennes TGV - Chalons-en-Champagne - Bar-le-Duc
  • High speed services TGV Paris Est - (Champagne Ardennes TGV/Meuse TGV) - Nancy
  • High speed services TGV Paris Est - Nancy - Epinal - Remiremont
  • High speed services TGV Paris Est - Nancy - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
  • High speed services TGV Paris Est - Nancy - Strasbourg
  • High speed services TGV Paris Est - (Meuse TGV) - Metz
  • High speed services TGV Paris Est - Metz - Thionville - Luxembourg
  • High speed services TGV/ICE Paris Est - Saarbrücken - Kaiserslautern - Mannheim - Frankfurt
  • High speed services TGV Paris Est - (Saverne) - Strasbourg
  • High speed services TGV Paris Est - Strasbourg - Colmar
  • High speed services TGV/ICE Paris Est - Strasbourg - Karlsruhe - Stuttgart
  • High speed services TGV/ICE Paris Est - Strasbourg - Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich
  • Regional services TER Grand Est (C2) Paris Est - Chateau-Thierry - Épernay - Chalons-en-Champagne - St Dizier
  • Regional services Transilien Paris Est - Meaux - Chateau Thierry
  • Regional services Transilien Paris Est - Meaux - La Ferte-Milon
  • Regional services Transilien Paris Est - Chelles Gournay - Meaux
  • Regional services Transilien Paris Est - Tournan - Coulommiers
  • Regional services Transilien Paris Est - Longueville - Provins

Metro services
Main article: Gare de l'Est (Paris Métro)

Destinations served from the Gare de l'Est

See also

References
  1. "Fréquentation en gares - SNCF Open Data". ressources.data.sncf.com (in French). Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  2. Le réseau TER Fluo, TER Grand Est, accessed 28 April 2022.
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