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France

Okay, here are the stops from France.

Porte d'Orleans

This stop is served by Transports Daniel Meyer (http://www.transports-daniel-meyer.fr/), a suburban bus company serving the area south of Paris. This stop is near the Porte d'Orleans Metro station.  Picture & Text by C. Hobbs.

Paris

This stop is on Rue Monge, near Boulevard St-Germain. It is served by Route #47, as well as the all-night routes #N and #R.The Paris RATP bus stop is a boxy, three-dimensional affair, with the route number on the ends of the sign (perpendicular to the street) and additional route and schedule information on the sides of the sign (parallel to the street).  Picture & Text by C. Hobbs.

Well, you can almost see the Arch if you look hard enough. But this simple glass and steel shelter is quite common on the streets of Paris. This one is served by #73 and all-night route #A.  Picture & text by C. Hobbs.

3 guesses as to where this bus stop is located...  Sorry, no prizes for getting it right.  Picture by C. Hobbs.

Most RATP bus stops feature map and schedule information. Picture & text by C. Hobbs.

Here is a RATP bus stop in view of the Louvre museum. In addition to regular RATP service, open-top double decker tourist buses (L'Open Tour) stop here as well.  Picture & Text by C. Hobbs.

This bus stop is located near the Radio France studios, at the corner of Rue de Versailles and Rue de Boulainvilliers, near the western edge of Paris. A RER (commuter rail station) is near this stop, on the other side of the street. This stop is the terminus for the #70, as well as the #K all-night bus route. "Reserve a la Descente" = stop for discharging passengers only.  Picture & text by C. Hobbs.

SQYBUS (St-Quentin- Yvelines Bus) runs several local lines in the suburbs south and west of Paris, including Versailles. Their Line #475, however, runs several peak-hour commuter trips to Paris Porte D'Orleans, on the south edge of the city. This is their stop.  Picture & Text by C. Hobbs.

The entrance to Cité station, on the Île-de-Cité. This is the station closest to Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. It is on line 4. Note the classic Art Nouveau design.  R. Mullins

A route 72 bus at the Pont Neuf-Quai du Louvre stop.  Trapped by R. Mullins.

Votre correspondant et un plan du Métro de Paris en la station Haussmann-Saint-Lazare.

The interior of the Gare du Nord station, the railway terminus for all lines serving the north of France, along with the Eurostar and Thalys high-speed trains. Two Thalys trains are at the left center.  R. Mullins.

A line-up of RATP buses on the Pont Neuf.  This makes hunting too easy for R. Mullins.

The sign at the entrance to the Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel station. The "T" inside a leaf logo is used by SNCF local services in the Île-de-France region.  Found by R. Mullins

Another classic Art Nouveau sign at Pont Neuf station (La Monnaie) on line 6.  Picture & Text by R. Mullins.

A typical RATP shelter. This one is Pont Neuf-Quai du Louvre, located on the rive droit, specifically on Quai de la Mégisserie at the Pont Neuf.  Picture by R. Mullins.

An RER train inside Musée d'Orsay station on the C line. RER is the commuter railway network operated by both RATP (lines A and B) and SNCF (lines A through E). The RER C line runs underground along the rive gauche, and includes a station at le tour Eiffel. Coaches are bi-level, and trains run rather frequently.  R. Mullins

Roger took a trip to France and took some pictures for us while he was there.  He visited several cities while there, and the results are posted Here.  This includes stops in Paris, Versaille, Bayeux, Dinan, Ducey, Rouen, and Vernon.

Revised: April 20, 2004


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