BTW, can you or another parisien(ne) help me out?
Double-checking Leipzig's claim to the widest European station, I was looking for size data and track maps of the main Paris stations (especially Gare Montparnasse and Gare du Nord), but found only one (for Saint-Lazare). If you can't find me some more, then could you at least explain me this (from the French Wiki):
Enfin, en 1994, l'arrivée des trains Eurostar impose une réorganisation des voies ainsi: * quais 1 et 2 : quais de service, non accessibles aux voyageurs. * quais 3 à 6 : terminal Eurostar vers Londres via le Tunnel sous la Manche. * quais 7 et 8 : quais Thalys vers la Belgique, les Pays-Bas et l'Allemagne. * quais 9 à 29 : TGV Nord, trains Grandes lignes, puis TER de Picardie. * quais 30 à 40 : gare de banlieue. * quais 41 à 44 (en sous-sol) : gare RER.
* quais 1 et 2 : quais de service, non accessibles aux voyageurs. * quais 3 à 6 : terminal Eurostar vers Londres via le Tunnel sous la Manche. * quais 7 et 8 : quais Thalys vers la Belgique, les Pays-Bas et l'Allemagne. * quais 9 à 29 : TGV Nord, trains Grandes lignes, puis TER de Picardie. * quais 30 à 40 : gare de banlieue. * quais 41 à 44 (en sous-sol) : gare RER.
Now, the RER platforms, that's Magneta station, right? But what about platforms 30-40 - are they on a second level underground, or perhabs some tracks have multiplew numbers? Or are numbers left out? (On a satellite map I looked at in the end, I only count 29 tracks - some outside the halls.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I did a few lookups to find some info on Parisian stations, and didn't come up with much, but I at least found this really detailed map of every station on the Paris-Lyon line ... but many many decades ago:
Paris Gare de Lyon pic (large TIF): http://fc.martinthouny.free.fr/Paris-lyon/profils/Page12.TIF
And the root of all pics: http://fc.martinthouny.free.fr/Paris-lyon/profils/page_01.htm
I'll see if I can find something later.
I ask because I wasn't. From satellite maps it appears to me that not all tracks of Gare du Nord are in the hall, only 16 - but maybe what I see east of the old hall is built over the extension of the eight other tracks? But for Leipzig, it's certain all tracks are under the halls. (There are a number of stations that have more tracks than Leipzig only with not all tracks covered. For example, Munich [32 tracks + 2 underground], or Paris Gare de l'Est [30 tracks]. But in meters, Leipzig Hbf's width beats the latter, too.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
