|Lines||Paris–Le Havre railway| |Passengers ()||100 million| TER
Haute Normandie Paris Saint-Lazare is one of the six large
terminus railway stations of Paris. It is the second busiest
railway station in Europe with 100,000,000 passengers transiting
every year, and also the second station in Paris, behind the
Gare du Nord. It handles 450,000 passengers each day. The
station was designed by architect Juste Lisch, and the maître de
l'oeuvre (general contractor) was Eugene Flachat. The first
station at St Lazare was 150 m north-west of its current
position, called Embarcadère des Batignolles. The station was
opened by Marie-Amélie (wife of Louis-Philippe of France) on 24
August 1837. The first line served was the single track line to
Le Pecq. In 1843 St-Lazare was the terminus for three lines; by
1900 this number had tripled. The station had 14 platforms in
1854 after several enlargements, and now has 27 platforms sorted
in six destination groups. On 27 April 1924 the inner suburban
lines were electrified with 7