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Le Creusot TGV station (French: Gare du Creusot TGV, officially Le Creusot-Montceau-Montchanin) is a railway station on the LGV Sud-Est providing TGV high-speed train services to the town of Le Creusot, France. Inaugurated on 22 September 1981 by President François Mitterrand and opened to commercial service five days later, the station is located outside the city in the town of Écuisses and accessible by road.[1][2]
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Le Creusot  | |
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 Le Creusot TGV station entrance | |
| General information | |
| Location | Écuisses, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France |
| Coordinates | 46°45′55″N 4°29′59″E |
| Line(s) | LGV Sud-Est |
| Platforms | 2 side platforms |
| Tracks | 4 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 87694109 |
| History | |
| Opened | 27 September 1981 |
The station is arranged with two side tracks for stopping trains, as well as two centre tracks for non-stopping trains to pass at full speed.
Situation
By road, the station is 8 km from Le Creusot and 15 km from Montceau-les-Mines.
The next northbound station on LGV Sud-Est is Paris-Gare de Lyon (terminus); the next southbound station is the Gare de Mâcon-Loché TGV. TGV journey times from the station to Paris are 1 hour 20 minutes on average. Lyon is 40 minutes on average. Prior to the opening of the LGV Sud-Est, average times were 3 hours 40 minutes to Paris with a train change in Dijon or Nevers; Lyon was 1 hour 30 minutes away with a train change in Chagny or Chalon-sur-Saône.
55 km north of the station is the highest point on the line at 489 m above sealevel, near the town of Liernais. This is near the range dividing the Seine and Loire river valleys, not far from the Rhône river valley.
See also
- List of TGV stations
References
- "Il y a 40 ans, il était aux commandes du premier voyage du TGV entre Le Creusot et Paris", France Bleu (in French), 21 September 2021.
- "Inauguration du TGV Paris-Lyon par François Mitterrand", enseignants.lumni.fr (in French).
External links
- Le Creusot TGV station at "Gares & Connexions", the official website of SNCF (in French)
| Preceding station | SNCF | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris-Lyon Terminus |
TGV | Mâcon-Loché TGV towards Southeastern France | ||
| Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy towards Northern and Eastern France | ||||
| Massy TGV towards Western and Southwestern France | ||||
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На других языках
[de] Bahnhof Creusot TGV
Creusot TGV (offizielle Bezeichnung Le Creusot – Montceau-les-Mines – Montchanin TGV) ist ein Fernverkehrsbahnhof an der LGV Sud-Est südlich der französischen Stadt Le Creusot im Département Saône-et-Loire.- [en] Le Creusot TGV station
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