Mulhouse-Ville station

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The Gare de Mulhouse-Ville, also known as Gare Centrale,[2] is the main railway station in the city of Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France. It is the eastern terminus of the Paris-Est–Mulhouse-Ville railway.

Mulhouse-Ville SNCF TGV inOui TGV Lyria
SNCF railway station
General information
Location10 avenue du Général Leclerc
68100 Mulhouse
Haut-Rhin
France
Coordinates47°44′33″N 7°20′36″E / 47.7426°N 7.3433°E / 47.7426; 7.3433
Owned bySNCF
Operated bySNCF
Line(s)Mulhouse - Kruth
Paris–Mulhouse railway
Strasbourg–Basel railway
Müllheim–Mulhouse railway
Platforms5
Tracks8
Other information
Station code87182063
History
Opened1 September 1839; 185 years ago (1839-09-01)
Passengers
20235,637,688[1]
Services
Preceding station SNCF Following station
Belfort – Montbéliard TGV
towards Paris-Lyon
TGV Lyria
Basel SBB
towards Zürich Hbf
TGV inOui
Terminus
Colmar (Haut-Rhin)
towards Luxembourg
Belfort – Montbéliard TGV
Belfort – Montbéliard TGV
towards Nice-Ville
Strasbourg
towards Nancy-Ville
Belfort – Montbéliard TGV
towards Paris-Lyon
TGV
Terminus
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Belfort – Montbéliard TGV
towards Marseille
ICE/TGV 84 Strasbourg
Preceding station TER Grand Est Following station
Colmar
towards Strasbourg
A01 Saint-Louis
towards Basel SNCF
Mulhouse-Dornach
towards Colmar
A02b Terminus
Terminus A15 Rixheim
towards Basel SNCF
Flaxlanden
towards Belfort
A16 Terminus
Mulhouse-Dornach
towards Kruth
A17
Altkirch
towards Paris-Est
C04
Preceding station Basel trinational S-Bahn Following station
Terminus TER Rixheim
towards Basel SBB
Preceding station DB Regio Baden-Württemberg Following station
Terminus RB 28 Bantzenheim
towards Freiburg Hbf

Station infrastructure

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The station is a major thoroughfare on the SNCF network as it is the second busiest in the Alsace region after Strasbourg-Ville.

History

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The current station was built in the years 1928–1932 and rebuilt until 1955, after sustaining heavy damage in 1944, during World War II; it was restored again in 2006, in anticipation of the TGV. Mulhouse's first railway station had been opened in 1839[3][4]

Services

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Mulhouse-Ville station is connected to the LGV Rhin-Rhône high speed line, offering TGV services towards Besançon, Dijon, Paris and southern France. Regional and local services are offered by TER Grand Est[5] and one service of Basel S-Bahn and DB Regio, respectively. Destinations include:

Intermodality

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A tram stop on the forecourt of the station serves as the terminus of lines 2 and 3 of the Mulhouse tramway, as well as the tram-train service to Thann. The outer section of this tram-train line shares its tracks with the SNCF service from inside the station to Kruth.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Fréquentation en gares". SNCF. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Plans du réseau". Soléa. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
  3. ^ "La gare de Mulhouse et ses 180 ans d'histoire". hotel-mulhouse.com. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Gare SNCF de Mulhouse". Base Mérimée. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  5. ^ Le réseau TER Fluo, TER Grand Est, accessed 27 April 2022.
  6. ^ Haydock, David (April 2011). "France's first real tram train". Today's Railways. Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. pp. 37–40.
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