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Gare De Denfert-Rochereau
Denfert-Rochereau station could refer to: * Denfert-Rochereau station (Paris RER), a station on the Paris RER network * Denfert-Rochereau station (Paris Métro), the adjoining Paris Metro station {{station disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denfert-Rochereau Station (Paris RER)
Denfert-Rochereau station () is a railway station in Paris. It was one of the first stations of the French railway network, and is still in use as a station of Paris' RER line B. The station was built from 1842 and opened on 7 June 1846 as the ''Gare d'Enfer'' (or ''Gare de Paris-d'Enfer''), after the nearby Place d'Enfer (now called the Place Denfert-Rochereau), itself named after the Barrière d'Enfer. The station building has a circular shape as it possessed a rail loop. Indeed, the station was the Parisian terminus of a line from Sceaux. The Ligne de Sceaux used the Arnoux system (after its inventor), as it required the construction of specific engines capable of travelling on very tight curves and broad gauge tracks of . The Arnoux system was abandoned in 1891 and the line was converted to (standard) gauge. The line was extended to Luxembourg station in 1895, with the newly created Port-Royal station along the way. At the same time, the station was renamed after Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |