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Gare de Lyon (French pronunciation: [ɡaʁ də ljɔ̃]) is a station on lines 1 and 14 of the Paris Métro.It is connected to the Gare de Lyon mainline rail and RER platforms within one complex and is the third-busiest station on the network with 30.91 million entering passengers in 2004, made up of 15.78 million on Line 1 and 15.13 million on Line 14.
The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon (French pronunciation: [paʁi ɡaʁ də ljɔ̃]), is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France. [3] It handles about 148.1 million passengers annually according to the estimates of the SNCF in 2018, with SNCF railways and the RER D accounting for around 110 million and the RER A accounting for 38 million, [citation needed ...
On 5 May 1931, line 8's platforms opened as part of its extension from Richelieu–Drouot to Porte de Charenton. The station was subsequently renamed Reuilly–Diderot , its current name. " Diderot " referred to the nearby Boulevard Diderot , which in turn was renamed in 1879 after Denis Diderot (1713-1784), a prominent writer and philosopher ...
Paris Métro Line 1 (French: Ligne 1 du métro de Paris) is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. It connects La Défense in the northwest and Château de Vincennes in the southeast. With a length of 16.5 km (10.3 mi), it constitutes an important east–west transportation route within the City of Paris.
Line 12's platforms opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the original section of the Nord-Sud Company's line A between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. Ezra Pound wrote in 1914 that his famous Imagist poem, " In a Station of the Metro ", was inspired by his impressions upon exiting a train at Concorde three years earlier.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is the main railway station serving Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. The station opened on 14 August 1847 with the opening of the Paris-St-Lazare–St-Germain-en-Laye railway, ligne de Saint Germain (from Paris to Saint-Germain), an atmospheric railway. Twelve years later, conventional locomotives replaced the atmospheric ...
Notre Dame Cathedral got its rooster back Saturday, in a pivotal moment for the Paris landmark’s restoration. The installation by a crane of a new golden rooster, reimagined as a dramatic ...
It also serves three of the Paris Railway stations, Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est, and Gare Montparnasse. It is the second-busiest Métro line after Line 1, carrying over 154 million passengers in 2004. Line 4 was the first line to connect to the south side of the River Seine, through an underwater tunnel built between 1905 and 1907.