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 Abbeville in 1856.[1]
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| Location | Les Trois-Domaines, Meuse, Lorraine, France | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°58′42″N 5°16′18″E / 48.97833°N 5.27167°E | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | LGV Est | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | 2007 | ||||||||||||
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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
edit- ^ "La gare Meuse-Voie Sacrée a été inaugurée", Le Nouvel Observateur 23 June 2008 (in French)
- ^ "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.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Gare de Meuse TGV.
- Meuse TGV station at "Gares & Connexions", the official website of SNCF (in French)