About the rich history of Austerlitz train station, also called Gare d’Orléans

The Austerlitz station's shipyards began in 1837 and were inaugurated three years later. Since 1867, passenger services have been reorganized to ensure better reception for the thousands of people who use the station. Currently, the station accommodates intercity, night trains, TER, and other commuter trains. The Trenhotel to Madrid and Barcelona also operated from here until 2013. Austerlitz station is included on the list of historic monuments. It is the starting point of the Paris-Austerlitz line to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean. The surface railway station has 21 cul-de-sac routes assigned to mainline traffic (Paris-Toulouse via Limoges) and serving the suburbs. Additionally, an underground station has four transit lanes (for two central platforms) assigned to the RER line C service. The fore-station, which stretches for several kilometers between Paris-Austerlitz and Ivry-sur-Seine, has various construction sites, including training and storage beams for passenger trains. This area, already partially affected by the establishment of the François-Mitterrand library, is part of a vast urban development project called Paris Rive Gauche.

The Austerlitz train station is located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris municipality, at 85 Quai d'Austerlitz, 75013 Paris. It is owned and operated by the SNCF, and its official opening date is September 20, 1840, while the underground tracks have been operational since March 3, 1969. The Paris-Austerlitz station was formerly called Gare d'Orléans and is one of the six main terminus stations of the SNCF in Paris. It is situated on the left bank of the Seine, near the Salpêtrière hospital. Since the introduction of the Artlantic LGV, the lines to Touraine and the great southwest no longer depart from Austerlitz station.

Paris Austerlitz station welcomes 21.3 million passengers annually, much less than the Montparnasse station. However, it retains its major role in serving Paris from the south of the Île-de-France. Recent renovations to the station were scheduled to be completed by 2020 and were expected to increase traffic. Following these renovations, SNCF announced that 23 million passengers and 180,000 trains would arrive in 2020 and predicted a doubling of the number of passengers by 2030. Indeed, the Paris Austerlitz station has a large capacity for expansion compared to other Parisian stations. It is expected to be developed during the next decade, notably with a view to the possible arrival of part of the TGV traffic, particularly the Paris Orléans Clermont-Ferrand Lyon LGV project. The underground portion of RER C line currently receives 27,536 passengers per day.

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