Gare de Denfert-Rochereau - Batiment voyageur

Gare de Denfert-Rochereau is a

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. It was one of the first

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of the

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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

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. The station building had a circular shape as it possessed a rail loop. Indeed, the station was the

ian terminus of a line from Sceaux. The

Ligne de Sceaux The Ligne de Sceaux (Sceaux Line) was a railway line in France running from Paris, which initially linked the Place Denfert-Rochereau (then called the ''Place d'Enfer'', in Paris, to the town of Sceaux. The line originally opened in 1846 as a br ...

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 A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , commonly known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union ( C ...

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

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station along the way. At the same time, the station was renamed after

Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau Pierre Philippe Marie Aristide Denfert-Rochereau, (11 January 1823 – 11 May 1878), was a French serviceman and politician. He achieved fame by successfully defending besieged Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War: this earned him the soubrique ...

. The line was operated by the

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until 1937 when the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Métropolitain de Paris (CMP) (predecessor of the RATP) took over. It became line B of the RER in 1977 on being extended to meet line A at Châtelet – Les Halles. The station building of Denfert-Rochereau station is the oldest railway building still standing in Paris. Denfert-Rochereau remains a station of line B of the

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and is an interchange with the métro station of the same name, Denfert-Rochereau.

Gallery

File:Gare de Denfert-Rochereau.JPG, Gare de Denfert-Rochereau building File:P1060652.JPG,

RER B RER B is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its Île-de-France suburbs. The RER B line crosses the region from no ...

platforms at Denfert-Rochereau File:RER B - Denfert-Rochereau (6).JPG, View to north from RER platforms File:RER B - Denfert-Rochereau (2).JPG, View to south from RER platforms

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