Then in June 1988 a rush hour train ran into the back of another at Paris's Gare de Lyon killing 59.
Many members of the city's Kurdish community live near the center, located near the Gare du Nord in Paris's 10th district.
Police used tear gas to disperse up to 100 youths at the Gare du Nord, one of Paris's major transport hubs.
Just the year before, a train had actually crashed through the passenger area at Gare Montparnasse and sailed out into the street.
This is the only way to leave the French capital, preferably on a balmy summer evening from Gare de Lyon or Bercy station.
They will be discussed over lunch and five hours later the motorcades will be heading for the airport or the Gare du Midi.
The German commander, General Von Choltitz, signed the surrender document at the Gare de Montparnasse at 3.30 on the afternoon of August the 25th 1944.
On the French side, passengers avoiding the air route via Charles de Gaulle airport are now planted straight into the old vault-like Gare du Nord.
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In February, Mr Picknett was given the RNLI's highest honour, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum, for his part in the rescue of an angler from the sea off Redcar's South Gare.
The train involved in Sunday night's incident had originally been due to leave Gare du Nord at 2043 CET and arrive at St Pancras at 2159 GMT but was delayed by about an hour after an unattended bag caused a security alert.
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