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La Défense Grande Arche
RER A station view in August 2020
General information
Location	La Défense Puteaux France
Coordinates	48°53′31″N 2°14′19″E / 48.891852°N 2.238539°E / 48.891852; 2.238539
Operated by	SNCF & RATP Group
Platforms	Métro: 2 side platforms RER: 2 island platforms Tramway: 1 island platform Transilien: 2 island platforms
Tracks	Métro: 2 RER: 4 Tramway: 2 Transilien: 4
Construction
Accessible	Metro: Yes RER A: Yes, by request to staff RER E: Yes, by prior reservation Tramway: Yes Transilien: Yes, by prior reservation
Other information
Station code	87758011 / 87731430 87382218
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	April 1959; 65 years ago (1959-04)
Passengers
2017	15,329,402
Rank	9th out of 302
Services
Preceding station Paris Métro Following station Terminus Line 1 Esplanade de La Défensetowards Château de Vincennes Preceding station RER Following station Nanterre-Préfecturetowards Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Cergy-le-Haut or Poissy RER A Charles de Gaulle–Étoiletowards Boissy-Saint-Léger or Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy Nanterre–La FolieTerminus RER E Neuilly–Porte Maillottowards Chelles–Gournay or Tournan Preceding station Transilien Following station Puteauxtowards Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche or Versailles–Rive Droite Line L Courbevoietowards Paris–Saint Lazare Puteauxtowards La Verrière Line U Terminus Preceding station Tram Following station Puteauxtowards T2 Faubourg de l'Archetowards

La Défense station (French pronunciation: [la defɑ̃s]) is a station of the Transilien (Réseau Saint-Lazare) suburban rail lines, RER commuter rail network, Paris Métro, as well as a stop of the Île-de-France tram network. In the future, Paris Metro Line 15 of Grand Paris Express will pass through here, making it a huge railway hub. It is underneath the Grande Arche building in La Défense, the business district just west of Paris. The station is the western terminus of Métro Line 1 and connects the RER A line to the Métro Line 1 station since 1992, the Line 2 tramway since 1994 and SNCF (Transilien) train station. It is also attached to a major shopping centre. There are over 25 million entries and exits each year. A temporary special SNCF service began in April 1959 (1959-04) to serve the newly-built Centre of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT); the RER entered service on 19 January 1970 (1970-01-19). The RER E station built under the CNIT opened on 6 May 2024.

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

• RER Line A and Line E
• Paris Métro Line 1
• Paris St Lazare Group III :
  • SNCF Gare Saint-Lazare – St Nom la Breteche–Forêt de Marly
  • SNCF Gare Saint-Lazare – Versailles Rive Droite
• SNCF La Défense – La Verrière
• Île-de-France tramway Line 2

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

-0	Street level	Entrances/exits
-1	Platforms
-2	Mezzanine	to entrances/exits passageway to RER/Transilien lines
-3	Platform 1	← termination platform
	Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the left
	Side platform with PSDs, doors will open on the left
	Platform 2	→ toward Château de Vincennes (Esplanade de La Défense) →
-4	Platform 1	→ toward Boissy-Saint-Léger or Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy (Charles de Gaulle–Étoile) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Platform A	→ toward Boissy-Saint-Léger or Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy (Charles de Gaulle–Étoile) →
	Platform B	← toward Saint Germain-en-Laye, Cergy-le-Haut or Poissy (Nanterre-Préfecture)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Platform 2	← toward Saint Germain-en-Laye, Cergy-le-Haut or Poissy (Nanterre-Préfecture)
-5	Platform 1	→ toward Chelles–Gournay or Tournan (Neuilly–Porte Maillot) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	← toward Nanterre–La Folie (Terminus)

• Note: The two side platforms for Metro Line 1 are located some distance apart, as opposed to one island platform.

Gallery

• RER A platforms
• Transilien platforms
• Paris Tramway Line 2 platform
• MP 05 on Line 1
• New automatic platform gates on eastbound platform

In popular culture

Buffet froid, the film, begins at La Défense station.

See also

• List of stations of the Paris Métro
• List of stations of the Paris RER

References

1. "Plan des lignes -personnes à mobilité réduite" [Line plan - persons with reduced mobility] (PDF) (Map). RATP (in French). May 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
2. "Plan pour les voyageurs en fauteuil roulant" [Map for travelers in wheelchairs] (PDF). Île-de-France Mobilités. 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
3. "Gare de La Défense". Transilien. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
4. "La Défense : la Grande Arche passe en sous-titre". MétroPole. 21 December 2009. Archived from the original on 24 December 2009 – via web.archive.org.
5. "Il y a cinquante ans la RATP mettait la Défense à quatre minutes de l'Etoile". defense-92.fr. 21 February 2020. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
6. File:Gare RATP La Défense.JPG
7. "Buffet Froid (1979) - locations". IMDb. Archived from the original on 15 December 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2020.

Bibliography

• Roland, Gérard (2003). Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram. Éditions Bonneton.

External links

Media related to Gare de la Défense at Wikimedia Commons

• La Défense station at Transilien, the official website of SNCF (in French)
• La Défense station at "Gares & Connexions", the official website of SNCF (in French)

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• Paris Métro line 1
• Paris Métro stations in Puteaux
• Réseau Express Régional stations
• Railway stations in Hauts-de-Seine
• La Défense
• Railway stations in France opened in 1992
• Railway stations located underground in France
• Accessible Paris Métro stations