Gare de Meuse TGV

Meuse TGV
Location Les Trois-Domaines, Meuse, Lorraine,  France
Coordinates 48°58′42″N 5°16′18″E / 48.97833°N 5.27167°E / 48.97833; 5.27167Coordinates: 48°58′42″N 5°16′18″E / 48.97833°N 5.27167°E / 48.97833; 5.27167
History
Opened 2007
Services
Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
toward western France
TGV
toward Strasbourg
TGV
toward Luxembourg
TGV
Terminus

Meuse TGV is a railway station that opened in June 2007 along with the LGV Est, a TGV high-speed rail line from Paris to Strasbourg. It is located in Les Trois-Domaines, about 30 km from Verdun and Bar-le-Duc, France. Designed by Jean-Marie Duthilleul, director of architecture for the SNCF, it is the first timber-built station in France since the Gare d'Abbeville in 1856.[1]

On 14 November 2015, a test train performing commissioning tests on the second phase of the LGV Est left Meuse TGV station headed to Strasbourg, but it derailed at a bridge over the Marne-Rhine Canal resulting in 11 deaths.[2]

References

  1. "La gare Meuse-Voie Sacrée a été inaugurée", Le Nouvel Observateur 23 June 2008 (French)
  2. "Un freinage tardif à l'origine de l'accident du train qui a déraillé à 243 km/h". Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (in French). 19 November 2015.
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