Gare de Pont Cardinet is a
railway station
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in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. It is situated on the
Paris–Le Havre railway
The Paris–Le Havre railway is an important 228-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the northwestern port city Le Havre via Rouen. Among the first railway lines in France, the section from Paris to Rouen opened on 9 May 1843, foll ...
. It is the first station on the line originating from
Gare Saint-Lazare
The Gare Saint-Lazare (English: St Lazarus station), officially Paris-Saint-Lazare, is one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It serves train services toward Normandy, northwest of Paris, along the Paris–Le Hav ...
, Paris. The station building is situated above the track level alongside Rue Cardinet. The station is equipped with
escalator
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s and
Solari destination boards.
The main line continues towards
Clichy whilst a small line, now closed, branches off towards
Pereire-Levallois and links St Lazare to the
RER C
RER C 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 suburbs. The line crosses the region from north to south.
The li ...
, this branch was once part of
Ligne d'Auteuil and closed in June 1996. Today, there are shuttle buses connecting Pereire-Levallois on RER C. Since December 2020, the station is connected to
Paris Métro line 14
Paris Métro Line 14 (French: ''Ligne 14 du métro de Paris'') is one of the sixteen lines on the Paris Métro. It connects the stations Mairie de Saint-Ouen and Olympiades on a north-west south-east diagonal via the three major stations of ...
with the construction of the
Pont Cardinet station.
History
Originally named Gare des Batignolles, the station opened on May 2, 1854, along with the
Auteuil railway.
References
External links
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Pont Cardinet
Railway stations in France opened in 1854
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