Port-Royal is a French railway station on the
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 ...
line 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 located in the
5th arrondissement, not far from its tripoint border with the
6th and
14th arrondissements. It is named after
Port-Royal Abbey, Paris
Port-Royal Abbey was an abbey in Paris that was a stronghold of Jansenism. It was first built in 1626 to relieve pressure of numbers on the mother house at Port-Royal-des-Champs.
History
Famous people who stayed at the Port-Royal Abbey include Ma ...
.
History
The station opened on 31 March 1895, as part of the
Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans
The ''Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans'' (PO) was an early French railway company.
It merged with the '' Chemins de fer du Midi'' to form the ''Chemins de fer de Paris à Orléans et du Midi'' (PO-Midi) in 1934. In 1938 the PO-Mid ...
extension of 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, Hauts-de-Seine, Sceaux.
The line originally ...
from
Denfert-Rochereau station
Gare de Denfert-Rochereau 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 ...
north to
Luxembourg station
Luxembourg railway station ( lb, Gare Lëtzebuerg, french: Gare de Luxembourg, german: Bahnhof Luxemburg) is the main railway station serving Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It is operated by Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, the state-own ...
.
The station has a unique architectural style with the station house located above the tracks on a metal footbridge. This particular arrangement was necessary because of a lack of space at the station site. Today, the station house retains its original appearance with its platforms protected by glass canopies, but the ends of the platforms have been extended to accommodate longer trains.
Port-Royal station was targeted in the 3 December
1996 Paris RER bombing when an explosive device detonated on the southbound tracks of the station. Four people were killed in the attack.
Gallery
File:Port Royal train station, Paris.jpg, The station house can be seen sitting atop the platforms on the Boulevard de Port-Royal
File:Gare de Port-Royal, plaque fleurie attentat 1996.JPG, Memorial at the station to the victims of the 1996 Paris RER bombing
See also
*
List of stations of the Paris RER
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Organizations
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References
Réseau Express Régional stations
Railway stations in France opened in 1895
Buildings and structures in the 5th arrondissement of Paris
Buildings and structures in the 6th arrondissement of Paris
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