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Paris Gare de Lyon Train Station
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Paris-Gare-de-Lyon is one of the seven terminus stations of the SNCF (French National Railways) network in Paris.
It is also a station on the RER (Regional Network) d’Île-de-France network. Often, simply called gare de Lyon, it is located in the 12th district (arrondissement), mainly in the Quinze-Vingts neighborhood. The South East portion of its tracks and platforms are located in the Bercy neighborhood.
It’s the third largest Paris train station by traffic (about 101 million travelers in 2015), and the second with regard to mainline trains (after the gare du Nord with 36 million, including the TGV). It is in zone: 1 (tarification Île-de-France) with coordinates 48° 50′ 41″ North, 2° 22′ 25″ East and an altitude of 39 m.
It is on the train lines Paris-Lyon ↔ Marseille-Saint-Charles, Paris-Nord ↔ Paris-Gare-de-Lyon (RER D) and RER A with 22 terminus surface lines and 6 underground through lines for RER A and D for a total of 28 tracks and 28 platforms serving 137,8 million passengers (2015), including Mainlines and RER D (SNCF): 101,2 and RER A (RATP): 36,6 million per year.
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Train Tickets and Reservations from the Paris Gare de Lyon Train Station
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Ticket counters available every day: 05h45 to 22h00
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International Trains:
International high speed train intineraries departing from this railway station.
Germany (TGV Germany, ICE)
Paris - Dijon - Besançon - Belfort - Mulhouse - Freiburg im Breisgau clk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=266332&a=2974340&g=22951178&url=trainline.eu/search/paris/freiburg/
Italy (TGV Italy)
Paris - Chambéry - Turin - Milan
Night train (Thello) Paris - Milan - Verona - Padua - Venice
Spain (TGV Spain)
Paris - Lyon - Montpellier - Narbonne - Perpignan - Figueres Vilafant - Girona - Barcelona
Switzerland (TGV Lyria)
Paris - Bellegarde - Geneva
Paris - Belfort - Mulhouse - Basel - Zurich
Paris - Dijon - Basel - Bern - Interlaken
Paris - Dijon - Lausanne (- Brig)
Paris - Dijon - Neuchâtel
National Trains:
TGV high speed train itineraries in France. These are very popular train routes
Paris - Avignon - Aix-en-Provence - Marseille
Paris - Avignon - Aix-en-Provence - Cannes - Antibes - Nice
Paris - Bellegarde - Annemasse - Evian-les-Bains
Paris - Chambéry - Aix-les-Bains - Annecy
Paris - Chambéry - Albertville - Bourg-Saint-Maurice (Winter)
Paris - Dijon - Besançon - Belfort - Mulhouse
Paris - Dijon - Besançon-Viotte
Paris - Dijon - Chalon-sur-Saône
Paris - Grenoble
Paris - Lyon
Paris - Lyon - Montpellier - Narbonne - Perpignan
Paris - Lyon - Saint-Étienne
Paris - Valence - Avignon - Miramas
Regional Trains:
Regional Trains in the region of Ile de France and beyond. These trains are operated by TER (Regional Express Trains).
Paris - Montereau - Sens - Laroche-Migennes
Paris - Melun - Moret - Nemours - Montargis
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