Meuse TGV station explained

Meuse TGV
Address:Les Trois-Domaines, Meuse, Lorraine, France
Coordinates:48.9783°N 5.2717°W
Line:LGV Est
Platform:2
Tracks:4
Opened:2007

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]

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]

Notes and References

  1. http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/societe/20070525.OBS8718/la-gare-meuse-voie-sacreea-ete-inauguree.html "La gare Meuse-Voie Sacrée a été inaugurée"
  2. News: Un freinage tardif à l'origine de l'accident du train qui a déraillé à 243 km/h. Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace. 19 November 2015. French.