Paris: Fast Trains, Slow Trains,Transportation By Train In France

Gare d’Austerlitz

Non TGV trains serve the Loire Valley, Limoges, Toulouse, the
southwestern parts of France and into Spain, Barcelona, Madrid.
Night sleepers to Barcelona.

Gare de Bercy:

This station is designed to transport passenger and their vehicles.
Non TGV trains serve Burgundy, Night, sleeper-trains leave this
station for Italy, serving Florence, Rome, Parma, Venice and Milan,

Gare St. Lazare,

France's oldest and full of history. Non TGV Trains serve northwest
of Paris to Brittany and Normandy

Gare de Lyon

Paris to Marseilles in three hours and twenty minutes. Stops in Dijon, (1hour 40)
Avignon, (2hours 30) Aix-en-Provence.

Trains continue to Cannes and to nice 7 hours, TGV Trains from Gare de Lyon
reach Languedoc Roussillon/Montpellier.
TGV trains reach the French Alps, Berne, Lausanne, Geneva, and as far
southeast as Milan and Turin in Italy.

Gare Montparnasse

TGV trains reach Tours, Le Mans, Bordeaux, Nantes, St. Malo and the
southwestern parts of France

Paris: Fast Trains, Slow Trains, Transportation By
Train In France

Paris TGV Trains: Paris to
Marseilles in about three hours
from Gare de Lyon

Transportation in
France Includes Fast
Trains Called TGV
.
These high speed
trains can travel at
180 Miles Per Hour.

Reservations
recommended.
Pre-booking
Required on some
runs; the trains fill fast

Gare de Lyon Train Station,
Paris, High Speed Trains to
Provence

RER Trains

The stations listed above are also served in some cases, by the
Metro as well as by RER trains, conventional trains that serve
suburban towns and cities.

TGV Trains

If you are traveling by TGV Train, First Class service is a better bet if
you have excess luggage. Air conditioning exists in first class, not in
coach. Luggage space is limited in coach Trips are usually of
short duration, however.
Reservations are required and best made well in advance; these
trains fill.

TGV Trains and their Five Paris Stations

Several of these stations are very old in a very old city. There is no
central station in Paris. The traveler passing through Paris headed
elsewhere will often need to leave one station and go to another to
continue a trip.
This can be done in some cases by walking and in others by cab or Metro.
The new TGV station at CDG appears to be taking on the role of a
central station as it serves Europe in many directions,

The TGV trains travel at speeds approaching 180
miles per hour, They reach Avignon in Provence in two
and a half hours from Gare de Lyon in Paris (station).
Paris to London 3 hours 20 minutes
Five stations in Paris are served by TGV trains, each
connecting to different parts of France and many parts
of Europe.

Train Schedules and
Fares

Train Transportation from Paris includes TGV
Trains and the slower conventional trains.
Trains leave from eight train stations in Paris and
connect to Western Europe.
Five train stations offer TGV Trains

See Paris Train Station List and Destinations below

Paris train Transportation, Gare de Lyon

Marseille in Provence is around three hours away by TGV Train from Gare
de Lyon.
The Metro and the RER trains open Paris sightseeing, shopping and
museums in the center of Paris along the Seine. RER serves well into the
suburbs. The tourist buses and boats make sightseeing loops through the
city with stops at important sites, gardens and museums. The RER trains
and Metro reach all of Paris and beyond to the suburbs.

Gare du Nord

TGV train to Gare de Calle and to London via the Eurostar fast trains.( 3 hours 20
minutes) Fast Trains called Thalys (joint Belgium, France) leave for Antwerp, Belgium,
the Netherlands, and Cologne.

French TGV trains serve Northern France, Gare Calle. Lille.
The station is also served by RER trains from the airport Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and
to Gare de Lyon

Gare de L'Este

Opened in 1849 and still home to the Orient Express (conventional train) from Paris to
Istanbul, this stations serves Europe to the east of Paris and south as far as Rome.

TGV trains serve to the east of Paris. High speed trains reach Alsace, Luxembourg
Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, and Munich, Germany. (ICE Trains, the
German High speed trains serve on the French TGV railbed.)
TGV Trains go southeast to Basel and Zurich, Switzerland.

Paris, Charles de Gaulle Airport

The newest TGV station at terminal 2 serves many destinations including Marseilles,
Dijon, Lyon, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Lillie, Strasbourg, Le Harve, Grenoble, Le mans,
Nantes, Nimes, Toulouse, Valence, and Tours

TGV serves Marne La Vallee–Chessy the station for EuroDisney (10 minutes)

Several stations are
served by
conventional Trains
that are much slower
and make more
frequent stops.

These trains, fast
and slow, leave from
eight train stations in
Paris and connect to
much of Western
Europe

Paris train Transportation, Trains travel to
the south of Paris from Gare de Lyon

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Spring

March, April, May, and June are good times to go to Paris for walking the city, museum visits, biking outlying
regions, and the culinary vacation. The weather in Paris is temperate from March to May (50-75 F) and the
city will not be too crowded.

Summer

July and August are high season and the time when many Paris shops close for vacation. Accommodations
could be scarce in June July August. some restaurants and shops close the month of August.

Fall

Weather is good in September October, great months to visit Paris.
Showers could come in any month but will be of short duration. Snow is rare

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