La Défense Grande Arche
RER A station view in August 2020
General information
Location	La Défense Puteaux France
Coordinates	48°53′31″N2°14′19″E / 48.891852°N 2.238539°E /48.891852; 2.238539
Operated by	SNCF &RATP Group
Platforms	Métro: 2side platforms RER: 2island platforms Tramway: 1 island platform Transilien: 2 island platforms
Tracks	Métro: 2 RER: 4 Tramway: 2 Transilien: 4
Construction
Accessible	Metro: Yes[1] RER A: Yes, by request to staff RER E: Yes, by prior reservation Tramway: Yes Transilien: Yes, by prior reservation[2]
Other information
Station code	87758011 / 87731430 87382218
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	April 1959; 66 years ago (1959-04)
Passengers
2017	15,329,402
Rank	9th out of 302
Services
Preceding station Paris Métro Following station Terminus Line 1 Esplanade de La Défense towardsChâteau de Vincennes Preceding station RER Following station Nanterre-Préfecture towardsSaint-Germain-en-Laye,Cergy-le-Haut orPoissy RER A Charles de Gaulle–Étoile towardsBoissy-Saint-Léger orMarne-la-Vallée–Chessy Nanterre–La Folie Terminus RER E Neuilly–Porte Maillot towardsChelles–Gournay orTournan Preceding station Transilien Following station Puteaux towardsSaint-Nom-la-Bretèche orVersailles–Rive Droite Line L Courbevoie towardsParis–Saint Lazare Puteaux towardsLa Verrière Line U Terminus Preceding station Tram Following station Faubourg de l'Arche towardsPont de Bezons T2 Puteaux towardsPorte de Versailles
Route map Line 1 Esplanade de La Défense RER A Nanterre-Préfecture Charles de Gaulle–Étoile RER E Nanterre–La Folie Neuilly–Porte Maillot
Location

La Défense station (French pronunciation:[ladefɑ̃s]) is a station of theTransilien (Réseau Saint-Lazare) suburban rail lines,RER commuter rail network,Paris Métro, as well as a stop of theÎle-de-France tram network. In the future,Paris Metro Line 15 ofGrand Paris Express will pass through here, making it a huge railway hub. It is underneath theGrande Arche building inLa Défense, the business district just west of Paris. The station is the western terminus ofMétro Line 1 and connects theRER A line to the Métro Line 1 station since 1992, theLine 2 tramway since 1994 andSNCF (Transilien) train station. It is also attached to amajor shopping centre. There are over 25 million entries and exits each year. A temporary specialSNCF service began in April 1959 (1959-04) to serve the newly-builtCentre of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT); theRER entered service on 19 January 1970 (1970-01-19).^[3][4][5] TheRER E station built under the CNIT opened on 6 May 2024.

Highlights on the surface nearby include the monumental Grande Arche, skyscrapers that host the headquarters of important French and foreign companies, and works ofurban art such asLe Pouce byCésar Baldaccini. From the central esplanade theArc de Triomphe can be seen further down theAxe historique. Until May 2004, this part ofLa Défense hosted an information centre of theEuropean Union managed by theEuropean Parliament. Like the district it serves, the station takes its name from the 19th-century statueLa Défense de Paris, commemorating theFranco-Prussian War.

The station is built around theCœur Transport (a urban interchange complex), a multimodal hub containing the RER A station, the Transilien station, the station of line 1 of the Paris metro, the station of the T2 tramway and a bus station.^[6][7] This centre has a large passenger hall, with a Transilien SNCF ticket office, numerous RATP ticket offices, machines for the purchase of long-distance tickets and others for the purchase of Île-de-France tickets. Many shops are located there. This room is directly connected to theLes Quatre Temps shopping center and theCentre of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT).

While most of the accesses lead to the passenger hall, there are other direct accesses. An exit located on Place Carpeaux leads directly to the tram station (as well as, indirectly, to the Transilien station via an underpass).^[8] The so-called column room access provides direct access to the Transilien station.^[9]

The RER E station has three external accesses. From the forecourt of the Grande Arche, in the CNIT (calledLa faille) and on Avenue Gambetta inCourbevoie. It is connected from its mezzanine to theCœur Transport via the CNIT. Direct access is also available to the RER A station and to the Transilien/tramway station thanks to two separate underground corridors.^[7] Lifts allow access to the various stations for people with reduced mobility.

Internet access via Wi-Fi is available throughout the station.^[10]

-0	Street level	Entrances/exits
-1	Platforms
-2	Mezzanine	to entrances/exits passageway to RER/Transilien lines
-3	Platform 1	← termination platform
	Side platform withPSDs, doors will open on the left
	Side platform withPSDs, doors will open on the left
	Platform 2	→ towardChâteau de Vincennes(Esplanade de La Défense) →
-4	Platform 1	→ towardBoissy-Saint-Léger orMarne-la-Vallée–Chessy(Charles de Gaulle–Étoile) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Platform A	→ towardBoissy-Saint-Léger orMarne-la-Vallée–Chessy(Charles de Gaulle–Étoile) →
	Platform B	← towardSaint Germain-en-Laye,Cergy-le-Haut orPoissy(Nanterre-Préfecture)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Platform 2	← towardSaint Germain-en-Laye,Cergy-le-Haut orPoissy(Nanterre-Préfecture)
-5	Platform 1	→ towardChelles–Gournay orTournan(Neuilly–Porte Maillot) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	← towardNanterre–La Folie(Terminus)

• Note: The two side platforms for Metro Line 1 are located some distance apart, as opposed to one island platform.

• RERLine A andLine E
• 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
• Île-de-France tramwayLine 2

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

The RATP bus station has a particularity: passengers wait in a long hall in front of automatic doors that open when the buses arrive. The bus station and the Jules-Verne Terminal are served by :

• lines 73, 141, 144, 159, 174, 178, 258, 275, 276, 278 and 360 of the RATP bus network ;
• lines A14 Bonnières, A14 Mantes, 7825 and 72 of the Mantois bus network ;
• the A14 Les Mureaux and A14 Verneuil lines of the Poissy - Les Mureaux bus network ;
• the A14 Chambourcy line of the Saint-Germain Boucles de Seine bus network ;
• the N24 line of the Noctilien network.

Since May 2024, "aerobus" shuttles have been in service to reach Paris-Beauvais airport

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  RER A platforms
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  Transilien platforms
• 
  Paris Tramway Line 2 platform
• 
  MP 05 onLine 1
• 
  Newautomatic platform gates on eastbound platform

La Défense RER platform panorama

Buffet froid, the film, begins at La Défense station.^[11][12]

• List of stations of the Paris Métro
• List of stations of the Paris RER

• Roland, Gérard (2003).Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram. Éditions Bonneton.

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• La Défense station atTransilien, the official website ofSNCF(in French)
• La Défense station at "Gares & Connexions", the official website ofSNCF(in French)

• Paris Métro line 1
• Paris Métro stations in Puteaux
• Réseau Express Régional stations
• Railway stations in Hauts-de-Seine
• La Défense
• Railway stations in France opened in 1992
• Railway stations located underground in France
• Accessible Paris Métro stations

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