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.

Mulhouse-Ville
SNCF railway station
General information
Location	10 avenue du Général Leclerc 68100 Mulhouse Haut-Rhin France
Coordinates	47.7426°N 7.3433°E / 47.7426; 7.3433
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; 185 years ago (1839-09-01)
Passengers
2023	5,637,688[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 towards Southeastern France 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 towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf 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

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

History

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

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
• Paris Lyon
• Strasbourg
• Zurich

Intermodality

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

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.

External links

• Media related to Gare de Mulhouse-Ville at Wikimedia Commons
• Mulhouse-Ville station at "Gares & Connexions", the official website of SNCF (in French)