Mulhouse-Ville station explained

Style:SNCF
Mulhouse-Ville
Type:SNCF railway station
Address:10 avenue du Général Leclerc
68100 Mulhouse
Borough:Haut-Rhin
Country:France
Coordinates:47.7426°N 7.3433°W
Operator:SNCF
Line:Mulhouse - Kruth
Paris–Mulhouse railway
Strasbourg–Basel railway
Müllheim–Mulhouse railway
Platform:5
Tracks:8
Owned:SNCF
Passengers:5,637,688[1]
Pass Year:2023
Services Collapsible:yes

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.

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:

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fréquentation en gares. SNCF. 19 August 2024.
  2. Web site: Plans du réseau . Soléa . 2011-04-06.
  3. Web site: La gare de Mulhouse et ses 180 ans d’histoire . hotel-mulhouse.com . 27 August 2024 . 16 November 2021.
  4. Web site: Gare SNCF de Mulhouse . . 27 August 2024.
  5. https://mmt.vsct.fr/sites/default/files/swt/CGRE/2022-02/Carte%20Grand%20Est%20-%20septembre%202020%20A3_tcm75-154926_tcm75-213386%20%282%29.pdf Le réseau TER Fluo
  6. News: David . Haydock . France's first real tram train . Today's Railways . Platform 5 Publishing Ltd . 37–40 . April 2011.