Le Creusot TGV station
High-speed rail station in east-central France
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Le Creusot TGV (French: Gare du Creusot TGV, Le Creusot-Montceau-Montchanin officially) is a high-speed railway station on the LGV Sud-Est providing TGV services to the city of Le Creusot, Saône-et-Loire, France. It was dedicated on 22 September 1981 by President François Mitterrand and opened to commercial service five days later.[2][3] The station, located outside the city in the commune of Écuisses, is accessible by road.
Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté,
FranceLe Creusot TGV Montceau les Mines–Montchanin  | |||||
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 Le Creusot TGV station entrance | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Écuisses, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France | ||||
| Coordinates | 46°45′55″N 4°29′59″E | ||||
| Line | LGV Sud-Est | ||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | 87694109 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 27 September 1981 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 683,000 (2024)[1] | |||||
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The station is arranged with two side tracks with platforms for stopping trains, in addition to two centre tracks for non-stopping trains to pass at full speed.
Situation
By road, the station is 8 km from Le Creusot and 15 km from Montceau-les-Mines.
The next northbound station on LGV Sud-Est is Paris-Gare de Lyon (terminus); the next southbound station is the Gare de Mâcon-Loché TGV. TGV journey times from the station to Paris are 1 hour 20 minutes on average. Lyon is 40 minutes on average. Prior to the opening of the LGV Sud-Est, average times were 3 hours 40 minutes to Paris with a train change in Dijon or Nevers; Lyon was 1 hour 30 minutes away with a train change in Chagny or Chalon-sur-Saône.
55 km north of the station is the highest point on the line at 489 m above sealevel, near the town of Liernais. This is near the range dividing the Seine and Loire river valleys, not far from the Rhône river valley.
