SNCF railway station | |||||
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General information | |||||
Location | 10 avenue du Général Leclerc 68100 Mulhouse Haut-Rhin France | ||||
Coordinates | 47°44′33″N 7°20′36″E / 47.7426°N 7.3433°E | ||||
Owned by | SNCF | ||||
Operated by | SNCF | ||||
Line(s) | Mulhouse - Kruth Paris–Mulhouse railway Strasbourg–Basel railway Müllheim–Mulhouse railway | ||||
Platforms | 5 | ||||
Tracks | 8 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | 87182063 | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1 September 1839 | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2023 | 5,637,688[1] | ||||
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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.
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:
- Basel
- Belfort
- Colmar
- Frankfurt
- Kruth
- Luxembourg
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Montpellier
- Nice
- Paris Lyon
- Strasbourg
- Zurich
Intermodality
[edit]A tram stop on the forecourt of the station serves as the terminus of lines 1 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)