Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Local Expert Advice Please from CDG to RER Luxembourg

I wanted to find out if the RER has elevators/escalators if I take the RER-B from CDG2-TA to the Luxembourg stop. I will be carrying medium to large-sized luggage and wanted to make sure all the entrances/exits have an elevator/escalator.


Thank you so much.




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The page on the RATP website which lists stations with elevators/escaltors does not list Luxembourg as having either.





www.ratp.info/informer/reseau_ferre_2.php…




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Yup...the LUXEMBOURG RER station has escalators. Frome CDG #2-A (American, Continental?), after collecting your bags, simply pass through the French Customs (seldom more than a nod %26amp; wave) controlled Exit out onto the main terminal concourse., You can either walk diagonally across the concourse and out the Exit #6 doors and take the free ADP shuttle bus (%26#39;..navette..%26#39;--which will be signed %26#39;..TGV/RER..%26#39; to the nearby train station....OR....perhaps just as quickly, simply Exit the customs control point onto the main concourse, TURN RIGHT and keep walking straight ahead, through #2-A, into the connected #2-C, across a glass-enclosed %26#39;bridge%26#39; until you bump into the attached SNCF/TGV/RER train station. Then down on the wide escalators two(2) levels to the RER train station and ticket kiosks (approx 10 mins)





If your final destination address/hotel is above Jardin de Luxembourg in the 5eme or 6eme, then save yourself some steps later on by riding the LAST cars of the RER %26#39;B%26#39; train so that when you Exit the LUXEMBOURG station, you will come up onto the Place Edmond Rostand at the northeast corner of the parc.





For what it%26#39;s worth, my wife (who%26#39;s never been recruited for an Olympic weighlifting team) manages to make this transfer, rolling a %26#39;normal%26#39;-sized wheeled bag, carrying a tote without difficulty.




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Thanks so much!! I appreciate your advice!!




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The main exit at rue Soufflot is only half equipped with escalators (there is one to get from the platform to turnstile level, but none from there to street level). Having said that, the stairs are manageable and the staircase is very wide. The South exit, on rue de l%26#39;Abbé de l%26#39;Epée, might be escalator only, I am not quite sure.

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