Where is gare du nord train station

Take a moment to wander onto the forecourt and see the beautiful station facade. Time on your hands before your train? The Gare du Nord is a very busy place, if you have significant time before your train I'd get away from all the bustle and have a coffee, beer or even a meal in quieter surroundings at one of the brasseries suggested below.

First class lounges The Eurostar business lounge is upstairs inside the Eurostar terminal, but only for passengers with the most expensive Business Premier tickets, not Standard Premier.

There's an SNCF Grand Voyageur first class lounge but this is only for holders of SNCF's or other Railteam members frequent traveller loyalty card, which you probably don't have, so of no use for most visitors even if you have a first class ticket. The main ticket office windows open onto the main concourse, opposite platforms There are plenty of SNCF ticket machines here, too. The Eurostar ticket office is upstairs on the balcony, accessed up an escalator opposite platform Eurostar terminal The Eurostar terminal for departures to London is on the first floor.

There are plenty of kiosks around the station selling drinks, snacks, baguettes. There's a small Monop minimarket next to the station exit opposite platform 8, see the photo below. There's a larger minimarket at the bottom of the down escalator opposite platform 7, just before the M4 metro ticket office.

For a wider choice at high street prices not station prices, there's a Monop minimarket 2 minutes walk away: Walk out of the main station exit, immediately turn sharp right and walk along the front of the station and beyond to the big junction where the rue de Dunkerque meets the Boulevard Magenta.

It's marked 'Monop' with a trolley symbol on this map. Left luggage lockers Bags are X-rayed before you access the locker room. Or use Stasher: You may find it easier to use Stasher. Online booking required. There's a well-organised taxi rank on the station forecourt in front of the station, usually with staff helping allocate people to taxis. Getting there. Bus : 26, 31, 35, 38, 39, 54, 56, 43, 45, , The Japanese culture in Paris Saturday 20th November and 2 other dates.

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It was inaugurated on 14 June with the opening of the Paris-Amiens-Lille line. It is made up of four main areas: the Eurostar Terminal - 6. Prices and times. Voir la carte. So in an additional five tracks were put in place, then ready for the World Fair in , which was when the Eiffel Tower was built, the interior of the station was completely rebuilt and an extension was added.

Over the years there have been additional expansion works carried out on the Garde du Nord train station and the railway lines, with the most notable one being in when the railways tracks had to be completely reorganised in order to service the Eurostar trains that travel through the Channel Tunnel from the UK.

The Gare du Nord train station today The first two train platforms are only for service, but the first ones open to commuters are platforms 3 to 6 that are the terminus for the Eurostar trains and these are separated from the rest of the trains due to the security checks and passport controls, as although the UK is part of the EU, it does not come under the Schengen Agreement of no border controls.

Then 7 and 8 are for the high speed trains going to Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, which are all part of the Schengen Agreement.