Gare de Lyon

Paris Gare de Lyon
The main facade
General information
Location	4 Place Louis Armand Paris France[1]
Coordinates	48°50′41″N 2°22′25″E / 48.8448°N 2.3735°E / 48.8448; 2.3735
Elevation	42 metres (138 ft)[2]
Operated by	SNCF and RATP Group
Line(s)	Paris–Marseille railway
Platforms	13 (surface) / 1 (RER A) / 2 (RER D)
Tracks	22 (surface) / 2 (RER A) / 4 (RER D)
Train operators	SNCF (TER, RER D), RATP (RER A), Trenitalia (Frecciarossa)
Connections
Construction
Parking	Yes
Architect	Marius Toudoire
Other information
Station code	87686030 / 87686006
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	12 August 1849 (1849-08-12)
Passengers
2022	102,024,783[3]
Rank	2nd busiest in France
Services Preceding station SNCF Following station Terminus TGV Le Creusot TGV towards Southeastern France Montbard towards Mulhouse-Ville Bourg-en-Bresse towards Lausanne Dijon-Ville towards Lausanne Dijon-Ville towards Zürich Hbf Mâcon-Loché TGV towards Genève-Cornavin Lyon Saint-Exupéry towards Milan Valence TGV towards Barcelona Sants Preceding station Ouigo Following station Terminus Grande Vitesse Lyon-Saint-Exupéry TGV towards Nice Lyon-Saint-Exupéry TGV towards Bourg-Saint-Maurice Avignon TGV towards Marseille Valence TGV towards Montpellier Preceding station Trenitalia Following station Terminus Frecciarossa Lyon-Part-Dieu towards Lyon-Perrache Lyon-Part-Dieu towards Milan Preceding station TER Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Following station Terminus TER Melun towards Laroche-Migennes Preceding station Transilien Following station Terminus Line R Melun towards Montargis or Montereau Preceding station RER Following station Châtelet–Les Halles towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Cergy-le-Haut or Poissy RER A Nation towards Boissy-Saint-Léger or Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy Châtelet towards Creil RER D Maisons-Alfort–Alfortville towards Corbeil-Essonnes Châtelet towards Goussainville Maisons-Alfort–Alfortville towards Melun Châtelet towards Villiers-le-Bel–Gonesse–Arnouville
Connections to other stations Preceding station Paris Métro Following station Bastille towards La Défense Line 1 transfer at Gare de Lyon Reuilly–Diderot towards Château de Vincennes Châtelet towards Saint-Denis–Pleyel Line 14 transfer at Gare de Lyon Bercy towards Aéroport d'Orly

The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon, is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France. 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]} making it the second-busiest station of France after the Gare du Nord and one of the busiest in Europe.

The station is located in the 12th arrondissement, on the right bank of the river Seine, in the east of Paris. Opened in 1849, it is the northern terminus of the Paris–Marseille railway. It is named after the city of Lyon, a stop for many long-distance trains departing here, most en route to the South of France. The station is served by high-speed TGV trains to Southern and Eastern France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain. The station also hosts regional trains and the RER and also the Gare de Lyon Métro station.

Main line trains depart from 32 platforms in two distinct halls: Hall 1, which is the older train shed, contains tracks labelled with letters from A to N, while the modern addition of Hall 2 contains tracks which are numbered from 5 to 23.^[4] There are a further four platforms for the RER underneath the main lines.