La Défense station
La Défense is a station of the Transilien suburban rail lines, RER, Paris Métro and tram. It is underneath the Grande Arche building in La Défense, the business district just west of Paris. The station is the western terminus of Paris Métro Line 1 and connects the RER Line A to the Metro Line 1 station La Défense–Grande Arche since 1992, the T2 tramway since 1994 and SNCF train station. It is also attached to a :fr:Les Quatre Temps|major shopping centre. There are 25.62 million entries and exits each year. SNCF began in, RER began on.
Highlights on the surface nearby include the monumental Grande Arche, skyscrapers that host the headquarters of important French and foreign companies, and works of urban art such as Le Pouce by César Baldaccini. From the central esplanade the Arc de Triomphe can be seen further down the Axe historique.
Until May 2004, this part of La Défense hosted an information centre of the European Union managed by the European Parliament.
Like the district it serves, the station takes its name from the 19th-century statue La Défense de Paris, commemorating the Franco-Prussian War.Lines serving this station
There are four platforms in the Transilien station :
In the morning:
- Platforms 1 and 3 are used for PSL Group III lines to Paris
- Platform 2 is used for PSL Group III lines to Versailles Rive Droite / St Nom la Breteche – Forêt de Marly
- Platform 4 is used for La Défense – La Verrière line
In the afternoon:
- Platform 1 is used for PSL Group III lines to Paris
- Platforms 2 and 4 are used for PSL Group III lines to Versailles Rive Droite / St Nom la Breteche – Forêt de Marly
- Platform 3 is used for La Défense – La Verrière line
Station layout (Paris Métro)
- Note: These are two side platforms located some distance apart, as opposed to one island platform; the layout does not show the platforms accurately.
Gallery
Metro
, the film, begins at La Défense station.
