Gare d'Austerlitz

• Railway line Paris -Bordeaux

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The Gare d' Austerlitz (originally Gare d' Orléans ) is one of the six terminal stations of Paris. It is located in the 13th arrondissement on the left bank of the Seine. His passenger volume amounts to 25 million passengers per year ( 68,000 per day), which corresponds to half of the proceeds of the Gare Montparnasse (Paris).

The name of the station comes from the Moravian town of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Three Emperors 2nd December 1805 was victorious pulled against the numerically superior Austro- Russian troops into battle. To commemorate this historic victory next to the train even the warship Austerlitz the French Navy and the Quai d' Austerlitz in Paris have been named after the host of the battle.

History

Already in 1840, was built on the basis of the opening of the Paris- Corbeil, a first station on the site of today. That line was extended from 1843 to Orléans. 1846, the station was enlarged for the first time.

Between 1862 and 1870 the station was rebuilt. The new concourse of metal has a considerable for the construction span of 51.5 m and is 280 m long. The large room was used during the siege of Paris in 1870 for the production of hot air balloons.

In 1900, extended the operating company of the existing rail line, the Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans ( PO), the distance in the direction of Paris city center and the Gare d' Orsay was the new end of the connection.

Traffic

Since the commissioning of the LGV Atlantique the station lost the majority of the rail networks in the south- west with the Gare Montparnasse.

In addition to the leftover SNCF trains depart from the Gare d' Austerlitz, on lines 5 and 10 of the Paris Métro and the RER line C.

Future

The Gare d' Austerlitz is the only one of six train stations in Paris, which is not fully utilized. With construction of the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique to Bordeaux is planned in 2020 TGV trains offer first time from this station, because of the Montparnasse train station is already at full capacity to its limits. Especially for this purpose a four-track extension has been built for which the station restaurant Le Grenadier had to give way. The rails are then under the Avenue de France to the station Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. The completion of the construction work is planned for 2020, the cost of the project, including the renovation of the main hall and the listed facade, amounted to 600 million euros.

Tracks in the extension

Track field, behind the building of the French National Library