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The Gare Montparnasse became famous for the derailment on 22 October 1895 of the Granville–Paris Express, which overran the buffer stop. The engine careened across almost 30 metres (100 ft) of the station concourse, crashed through a 60-centimetre (2 ft) thick wall, shot across a terrace and smashed out of the station, plummeting onto the ...
Date: 23 April 2009: Source: Own work; New version: Background map made with data from Centre de données géophysiques nationales (NGDC) ETOPO1; Old version: Background map from File:France map Lambert-93 topographic-blank.svg under licence GFDL or CC-BY-SA 3.0
It was originally called the Paris Sheraton Hotel, before successive rebrands as Montparnasse Park Hotel, Méridien Paris Montparnasse and Pullman Paris Montparnasse. It is ranked as the third largest hotel in Paris by number of rooms. [12] Culminating at 116 mètres, it claims to offer the highest open air rooftop bar in Paris. [13]
The hotel's management rights were acquired by Air France's Le Méridien hotel division for FRF 30 million a year [6] [7] and the hotel was renamed Le Meridien Montparnasse on 1 July 1986. In 1998, mall operator Unibail (today Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield ) purchased Frankoparis and its assets, including the Vandamme Nord complex. [ 8 ]
Gare de la Bastille on the former line Paris-Vincennes, demolished to construct the Opéra Bastille; Gare de Reuilly on the former line Paris-Vincennes; Gare d'Orsay, converted into the Musée d’Orsay; Gare de Paris-Bestiaux, abandoned; Gare de Paris-Gobelins, former freight station, under pavement, visible from the south of Rue Nationale
The LGV Atlantique (French: Ligne à Grande Vitesse Atlantique; English: Atlantic high-speed line) is a high-speed rail line running from Gare Montparnasse in Paris towards the Atlantic coast of France. It opened in 1989–1990 and has two intermediate stations: Massy TGV station and Vendôme-Villiers-sur-Loir TGV station.