Gare d'Austerlitz
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terminus railway station in Paris, France
Key facts
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- Location
- 85 Quai d'Austerlitz, Paris , France
- Line
- Paris–Bordeaux railway
- Accessible
- RER: No
- Architect
- Pierre-Louis Renaud
- Station code
- 87547000 / 87547026 (RER)
- Fare zone
- 1 (RER)
- Opened
- 20 September 1840 ( 1840-09-20 )
- Rank
- 18th in France
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- underground railway station
- Named after
- Paris–Bordeaux railway
- Country
- France
- Located in
- 13th arrondissement of Paris
- Elevation
- 37
- Time zone
- Western European Time
- Official website
- www.garesetconnexions.sncf/fr/gares-services/paris-austerlitz
- Image
- Gare d'Austerlitz-RER C.JPG
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- Commons category
- Gare de Paris-Austerlitz
- adjacent station
- Bibliothèque François Mitterrand Station
- located on street
- quai d'Austerlitz
- date of official opening
- 1840-01-01
- Wi-Fi access
- gratis
- interchange station
- Gare d'Austerlitz
- postal code
- 75013
- transport network
- TER Centre-Val de Loire
- inception
- 1840-09-20
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Encyclopedic overview
Gare d'Austerlitz (English: Austerlitz station), officially Paris Austerlitz, is one of the seven large Paris railway terminal stations. The station is located on the left bank of the Seine in the southeastern part of the city, in the 13th arrondissement. It is the start of the Paris–Bordeaux railway; the line to Toulouse is connected to this line. In 1997, the Ministry of Culture designated the Gare d'Austerlitz a historical monument; it became the fifth large railway station in Paris to receive such a label, as currently only Montparnasse has not been attributed it.
Since the opening of the LGV Atlantique – ending at Gare Montparnasse – Austerlitz has lost most of its long-distance southwestern services. It is used by some 30 million passengers annually, about half the number passing through Montparnasse. The Elipsos night trains operated jointly by Renfe and SNCF operated from here to Madrid and Barcelona from 2001 to 2013. With the start of a direct TGV from Paris to Barcelona, on 15 December 2013, these services were discontinued.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gare d'Austerlitz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.