Gare du Nord

Hi everyone,

in this post, I will show pictures of a completely non-touristic place in Paris: Gare du Nord (North Station). There are several train stations in Paris, but gare du Nord is the one with most passengers per day: 0.5 million, which makes it third in the world.
There are two metro (subway) lines, 3 RER (local train going thru Paris) lines, multiple trains to the northern suburbs of Paris, long distance trains to small cities in the North of France, TGV (high speed train) to larger cities in the North of France (mainly Lille), Eurostar, which goes to London, and Thalys, which goes to Bruxelles (Belgium) and Amsterdam (Netherlands).
There are all kinds of people, from businessmen going to London or Amsterda for business to poor immigrants living in the poor cities in the north of Paris going to work and every class in between.
The train station itself is an assembly of different locations: old building for long distance trains, TGVs, modern building as the entrance for local trains and darker corridors for the underground RER and métro lines.
I took the pictures this week-end on a saturday afternoon, when the station is very quite, you'll still see many people. On rush hours, I would not have been able to take any picture, everybody is walking from train to métro or RER, corridors are way too crowded.
Take care.