La Défense (station)

La Défense – Grande Arche
La Défense – Grande Arche
Date opened	1 April 1992
Accesses	Rue Carpeaux × voie Perronet
Municipality/; Arrondissement	Puteaux
Fare zone	3
Next stations
	Paris Métro Line 1
Direction; La Défense	Direction; Château de Vincennes
Terminus	Esplanade de La Défense
List of stations of the Paris Métro
	Location of metro station

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La Défense is a station of the Paris Métro, RER, and Transilien suburban rail lines. It is located underneath the Grande Arche building in La Défense, the business district just west of Paris. The station connects the RER Line A to the Metro Line 1 station La Défense – Grande Arche (since 1992), the T2 tramway (since 1994), and an SNCF (Transilien) train station. It is also attached to a major shopping centre. There are 25.62 million entries and exits each year.

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.

[edit] Lines serving this station

RER Line A (Paris Zone 1–2 tickets not valid)
Line 1 (terminus, Paris Zone 1–2 tickets valid)
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
Tram Line 2 (terminus)

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

Preceding station	SNCF	Following station
Courbevoie toward Paris-St.-Lazare	Transilien	Puteaux toward Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche or Versailles-RD
Terminus	Transilien	Puteaux toward La Verrière
Nanterre – Préfecture toward Saint Germain-en-Laye, Cergy-le-Haut or Poissy		Charles de Gaulle – Étoile toward Boissy-Saint-Léger or Marne-la-Vallée - Chessy