Park Defense

The station of Defense - Grande Arche is a railway station of the French commune of Puteaux (department of the Hauts-de-Seine).

The station

The station is located under the Square of Defense at the foot of the Arche in the middle of the district of businesses of the Parisian west. In this station many trade are.

Service roads

In this station, one finds:

a station the SNCF of suburbs (named DEFENSE) which accommodate lines serving the Hauts-de-Seine and the Yvelines:

two lines coming from the Station Saint-Lazare and bound for Saint-Name-the-Bretèche and from Versailles - Right Bank;
a line at the beginning of Defense and bound for the Canopy;

a station of the line has the RER (named the DEFENSE-GRANDE ARCH). It is necessary to count 10 minutes to reach the center of Paris (Châtelet - the Markets).

In off-peak hour, station the RER is served every 5 minutes in each direction, by trains carrying out three alternative missions:

Correspondences

Terminus of the tram,
Western Terminus of the underground line ('' Defense - Grande Arche '') which also serves the end is Esplanade of Defense. It is the only means of reaching Defense by railway way with an ordinary subway ticket (Ticket T),
underground Coach station. It presents a characteristic: the travellers wait in a long corridor in front of automatic doors which open at the time of the arrival of the buses. The following lines serve it:

the Drunk Drunk RATP
Drunk
Drunk
Noctilien

Final international truck driver Jules Verne

Curiosities

the Arch of Defense sheltering the Ministry for Transport and the Equipment
CNIT
the district of businesses of Defense: turns of the French large companies
the information center European, closed in May 2004 for lack of appropriations; also closed, in 2001, a dome IMAX on the left of the Arch which is prolonged by a very picturesque dam , always open and free.
the sculpture the inch of César Baldaccini on the carpark of a hotel close to CNIT.

See too

List of the stations of the RER of Ile-de-France

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