Gare de Lyon (Paris Métro)

Gare de Lyon
Paris Métro station
Location	20 bis, 25, 27, 28, boul. Diderot 167, 175, 191, 201, 203, rue de Bercy Gare de Lyon (three) 12th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°50′41″N 2°22′26″E / 48.84472°N 2.37389°ECoordinates: 48°50′41″N 2°22′26″E / 48.84472°N 2.37389°E
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Construction
Disabled access	Line 14 only
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	19 July 1900
Services
Preceding station   Paris Métro   Following station Bastille toward La Défense Reuilly - Diderot toward Château de Vincennes Châtelet toward Saint-Lazare Bercy toward Olympiades Connections to other stations Preceding station   RER   Following station Châtelet - Les Halles toward Saint Germain-en-Laye, Cergy-le-Haut or Poissy Transfer at: Gare de Lyon Nation toward Boissy-Saint-Léger or Marne-la-Vallée - Chessy Châtelet - Les Halles toward Creil Transfer at: Gare de Lyon Maisons-Alfort – Alfortville toward Melun or Malesherbes
Location
Gare de Lyon Location within Paris

Gare de Lyon is a station on lines 1 and 14 of the Paris Métro. It is connected to the Gare de Lyon mainline rail and RER stations 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 on line 1 and 15.13 on line 14.^[1]

Line 1

The line 1 station was one of the eight original stations opened as part of the first section of line 1 between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot on 19 July 1900. It was built with a length of 100 metres instead of the 75 metre length used for the stations of the line before their extension during the rebuilding of the line for rubber-tyre operation. The station was built cut and cover and is covered by a of 23.90 metre-wide metal deck, which supports the streets above.^[2] It originally had four lines flanking two six metre-wide platforms in order to accommodate the proposed circular line (then called Line 2), although this was never completed. From 1 August 1906 the northern terminus of Line 5 was temporarily located at the spare platforms, requiring a reversal at Quai de la Rapée. On 17 December 1906 Line 5 was extended to Jacques Bonsergent and the section between Quai de la Rapée and Gare de Lyon was closed.^[2] The route of the closed line and the spare platforms at Gare de Lyon were used as part of a 60 cm (24 in) gauge railway, known as the Voie des Finances, operated by the Ministry of Finance to move currency from 1937 to 1957.

The Line 1 platforms were raised during the weekend of 18 and 19 July 2009 as part of the automation of Line 1.

Line 14

Tropical garden on Line 14

The station of Line 14 was opened on 15 October 1998. It is located south of the Gare de Lyon in the Rue de Bercy, next to the stations of RER lines A and D. It has two lines on either side of a large central platform. Between the eastbound lane from Olympiades and the RATP headquarters is an exotic garden.

The Board of Directors of the Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France decided on 27 May 2009 to provide funding in 2010 for a third access in the middle of the platform to facilitate movement within the busy and relatively narrow station. This new access will join the existing bridge over the tracks, which currently provides access to the RER, but is not used to access Line 14. This would separate the flow of arriving and departing passengers.^[3]

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	to Exits/Entrances
B2	Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right
	Westbound	← toward La Défense – Grande Arche (Bastille)
	Eastbound	→ toward Château de Vincennes (Reuilly – Diderot) →
	Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right
B3
	Northbound	← toward Saint-Lazare (Châtelet)
	Island platform with PSDs, doors will open on the left
	Southbound	→ toward Olympiades (Bercy) →

Gallery

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  Line 1 platforms

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  Line 14 platforms

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  Line 14 platforms

References

1. "Recueil de statistiques sur les transports en commun d’Ile-de-France (Collection of statistics on public transport in Ile-de-France)" (PDF) (in French). STIF. p. 16.
2. Tricoire, Jean (1999). Le métro de Paris – 1899 – 1911 : images de la construction (The Paris Metro 1899–1911: images of the construction) (in French). Paris: éditions Paris Musées. ISBN 2-87900-481-0.
3. "Météor : quatre améliorations mises sur orbite (Météor: four improvements put into orbit)" (in French). MétroPole. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2009.