Aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle 2 TGV: station history
Served by: RER B.
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An SNCF station served by RER line B, TGV trains and Eurostar, located in terminal 2, on the boundary of Tremblay-en-France and Le Mesnil-Amelot. In 1987 the government decided to build a TGV station in the airport, and in 1989 ADP and Air France signed an agreement for a TGV/RER station within terminal 2. The RER station and the TGV station are separate, divided by a barrier at platform level.
Anecdote
The station is inspired by the glass roofs of nineteenth-century stations: its glazed surface reaches 27,500 square metres, on five levels, with the design entrusted to Benthem Crouwel Architects. The two central tracks of the TGV part have no platform and let trains pass without stopping, at 200 km/h. For the station's twentieth anniversary, its layout and circulation were reworked, for an investment of 5 million euros. A CDGVAL station, "Terminal 2 - Gare", is nearby.
Around Aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle 2 TGV
- Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace (Le Bourget), 11800 m away — Visitors can board an Air France Boeing 747 and a Concorde, the emblematic aircraft of Roissy in the 1970s.