Mulhouse-Ville station
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.
Station infrastructure
[edit]The station is a major thoroughfare on the SNCF network as it is the second busiest in the Alsace region after Strasbourg-Ville.
History
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Fréquentation en gares". SNCF. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- ^ "Plans du réseau". Soléa. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
- ^ "La gare de Mulhouse et ses 180 ans d'histoire". hotel-mulhouse.com. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ "Gare SNCF de Mulhouse". Base Mérimée. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ Le réseau TER Fluo, TER Grand Est, accessed 27 April 2022.
- ^ Haydock, David (April 2011). "France's first real tram train". Today's Railways. Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. pp. 37–40.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Gare de Mulhouse-Ville at Wikimedia Commons
- Mulhouse-Ville station at "Gares & Connexions", the official website of SNCF (in French)