City · France
La Defense
La Défense station is a station of the Transilien suburban rail lines, RER commuter rail network, Paris Métro, as well as a stop of the Île-de-France tram network. In the future, Paris Metro Line 15 of Grand Paris Express will pass through here, making it a huge railway hub. It is underneath the Grande Arche building in La Défense, the business district just west of Paris. The station is the western terminus of Métro Line 1 and connects the RER A line to the Métro Line 1 station since 1992, the Line 2 tramway since 1994 and SNCF (Transilien) train station. It is also attached to a major shopping centre. There are over 25 million entries and exits each year. A temporary special SNCF service began in April 1959 to serve the newly built Centre of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT); the RER entered service on 19 January 1970 . The RER E station built under the CNIT opened on 6 May 2024.
Good to know
- Population: 20,000.
- Timezone: Europe/Paris.
- Dates back to 1959.