Gare de Lyon (Paris Métro)

This article is about the Paris Métro (subway) station. For the mainline (national) railway station, see Paris-Gare de Lyon.

Gare de Lyon (French pronunciation: [ɡaʁ də ljɔ̃]) is a station on lines 1 and 14 of the Paris Métro. It is connected to the Gare de Lyon mainline rail and RER platforms within one complex and is the third-busiest station on the network with 30.91 million entering passengers in 2004, made up of 15.78 million on Line 1 and 15.13 million on Line 14.^[2]

Gare de Lyon
Boulevard Diderot entrance in December 2021
General information
Location	20 bis, 25, 27, 28, Boul. Diderot 167, 175, 191, 201, 203, Rue de Bercy Gare de Lyon (three) 12th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°50′41″N 2°22′26″E
Owned by	RATP
Connections	at Gare de Lyon
Construction
Accessible	Line 1: At least one escalator or lift in the station between the street and the platform Line 14: Yes[1]
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	19 July 1900 (1900-07-19) (Line 1) 15 October 1998 (1998-10-15) (Line 14)
Services
Preceding station Paris Métro Following station Bastille towards La Défense Line 1 Reuilly–Diderot towards Château de Vincennes Châtelet towards Saint-Denis–Pleyel Line 14 Bercy towards Aéroport d'Orly Connections to other stations Preceding station RER Following station Châtelet–Les Halles towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Cergy-le-Haut or Poissy RER A transfer at Gare de Lyon Nation towards Boissy-Saint-Léger or Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy Châtelet towards Creil RER D transfer at Gare de Lyon Maisons-Alfort–Alfortville towards Corbeil-Essonnes Châtelet towards Goussainville Maisons-Alfort–Alfortville towards Melun Châtelet towards Villiers-le-Bel–Gonesse–Arnouville
Location Gare de Lyon Location within Paris

Line 1

The line 1 station was one of the eight original stations opened as part of the first section of line 1 between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot on 19 July 1900. It was built with a length of 100 metres (330 ft) instead of the 75-metre (246 ft) length used for the stations of the line before their extension during the rebuilding of the line for rubber-tyre operation. The station was built cut and cover and is covered by a 23.90-metre (78 ft 5 in)-wide metal deck, which supports the streets above.^[3] It originally had four lines flanking two 6-metre (20 ft)-wide platforms in order to accommodate the proposed circular line (then called Line 2), although this was never completed. From 1 August 1906 the northern terminus of Line 5 was temporarily located at the spare platforms, requiring a reversal at Quai de la Rapée. On 17 December 1906 Line 5 was extended to Jacques Bonsergent and the section between Quai de la Rapée and Gare de Lyon was closed.^[3] The route of the closed line and the spare platforms at Gare de Lyon were used as part of a 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) gauge railway, known as the Voie des Finances, operated by the Ministry of Finance to move currency from 1937 to 1957.

The Line 1 platforms were raised during the weekend of 18 and 19 July 2009 as part of the line's automation.

Line 14

Tropical garden on Line 14

The station of Line 14 was opened on 15 October 1998. It is located south of the Gare de Lyon in the Rue de Bercy, next to the stations of RER lines A and D. It has two lines on either side of a large central platform. Between the eastbound lane from Olympiades and the RATP headquarters is an exotic garden.

The STIF board of directors decided on 27 May 2009 to provide funding in 2010 for a third access in the middle of the platform to facilitate movement within the busy and relatively narrow station. This new access will join the existing bridge over the tracks, which currently provides access to the RER, but is not used to access Line 14. This would separate the flow of arriving and departing passengers.^[4]

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	to Exits/Entrances
B2	Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right
	Westbound	← toward La Défense (Bastille)
	Eastbound	→ toward Château de Vincennes (Reuilly–Diderot) →
	Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the right
B3
	Northbound	← toward Saint-Denis–Pleyel (Châtelet)
	Island platform with PSDs, doors will open on the left
	Southbound	→ toward Aéroport d'Orly (Bercy) →

Gallery

• 
  Line 1 platforms
• 
  Line 1 platforms before the installation of platform screen doors
• 
  Line 14 platforms
• 
  Line 1 platforms in the early 1900s

References

1. "Plan des lignes -personnes à mobilité réduite" [Line plan - persons with reduced mobility] (PDF) (Map). RATP (in French). May 2022.
2. "Recueil de statistiques sur les transports en commun d'Ile-de-France (Collection of statistics on public transport in Ile-de-France)" (PDF) (in French). STIF. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2012.
3. Tricoire, Jean (1999). Le métro de Paris – 1899 – 1911 : images de la construction (The Paris Metro 1899–1911: images of the construction) (in French). Paris: éditions Paris Musées. ISBN 2-87900-481-0.
4. "Météor : quatre améliorations mises sur orbite (Météor: four improvements put into orbit)" (in French). MétroPole. 10 July 2009. Archived from the original on 16 September 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2009.