Saint-Lazare () is a station on Line 3, Line 12, Line 13 and Line 14 of the

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. Line 9 also stops at Saint Augustin and

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stops at Haussmann Saint Lazare. A tunnel connects both of these stations. Located on the border of the 8th and 9th arrondissements, it is the second busiest station of the Métro system after

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with 39 million passengers annually. The station offers connections to the following other stations:

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 ...

(

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Haussmann–Saint-Lazare Haussmann–Saint-Lazare is a station on the RER in Paris, France. Opened on 14 July 1999 as the terminus of the new Line E, it is situated beneath Boulevard Haussmann and directly connected to Paris–Saint-Lazare, Auber RER, and two metro ...

, Havre – Caumartin on Line 3 and Line 9, in addition to Saint-Augustin on Line 9. The station is named after the mainline railway station, which is situated in

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. It is in the commercial centre of Paris, near the major department stores.

Location

The station is located near the Paris-Saint-Lazare station, the platforms being established: * on line 3 (between Europe and Havre - Caumartin stations), under the Cour de Rome, along the northeast / southeast axis of Rue de Rome, flush with the ground above the line tunnel 13; * on line 12 (between Trinité - d'Estienne d'Orves and Madeleine stations), on an east–west axis under Rue Saint-Lazare, between Place du Havre and Rue de Caumartin; * on line 13 (between Liège and Miromesnil), aligned with the station on line 12 under the same street, between the Cour du Havre and the Cour de Rome, along the Hilton Paris Opéra hotel; * on line 14 (Between Pont Cardinet and Madeleine), deep below the Cour de Rome, along a northeast / southwest axis.

History

The station opened on 14 October 1904, four days after the opening of the first section of Line 3 between

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and Villiers. The Line 12 platforms opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the

Nord-Sud Company The Nord-Sud Company (English: North-South; french: Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris) was an operator of underground trains in Paris established in 1904, which built two lines (now Line 12 and part of Line ...

's Line A from

Porte de Versailles Porte de Versailles () is a station on Line 12 of the Paris Métro, as well as the southern terminus of Île-de-France tramway Line 2 and a stop on Île-de-France tramway Line 3a in the 15th arrondissement. Nearby are the Paris expo Porte de Ve ...

Notre-Dame-de-Lorette Notre Dame de Lorette (), also known as Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery, is the world's largest French military cemetery.Porte de Saint-Ouen. It was the southern terminus of the line until 27 June 1973 when it was extended to Miromesnil. On 27 March 1931, the Nord-Sud Company was taken over by the

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and Line A became Line 12 of the Métro and Line B became Line 13. On 12 July 1999, the RER station of Haussmann–Saint-Lazare was opened. On 16 December 2003, the Line 14 platforms were opened with the extension of the line from Madeleine. On the same day a corridor opened connecting to the station of Saint-Augustin on Line 9.

Passenger services

Access

The station has 11 entrances: * Entrance 1: Cour de Rome: escalators (entry and exit), staircase to the Cour de Rome. The access is equipped with a glass entrance (''La Lentille'') whose creator was

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; * Entrance 2: Place du Havre: two staircases at 13 Place du Havre; * Entrance 3: Passage du Havre: two staircases at 14 Place du Havre and direct access to the Passage du Havre shopping center; * Entrance 4: Galerie des Marchands: escalators (entrance and exit) to the shopping mall in connecting with the SNCF station; * Entrance 5: Rue Intérieur: Rue Intérieur (access to the SNCF station); * Entrance 6: Place Gabriel-Péri: Place Gabriel-Péri; * Entrance 7: Rue de l'Arcade: 62 Rue de l'Arcade (corner Rue de Rome); * Entrance 8: Rue d'Amsterdam: a staircase opposite 2 Rue d'Amsterdam; * Entrance 9: Cour du Havre: an escalator at the Cour du Havre exit; * Entrance 10: Rue Caumartin: a staircase at 95-97 Rue Saint-Lazare; * Entrance 11: Rue Saint-Lazare: 92 Rue Saint-Lazare.

Station layout

The platforms are connected by a mezzanine, which has entrances/exits to street level. The platforms are listed by line number.

Line 3

Line 12

Line 13

Line 14

Corridors

The ticket hall, or ''rotonde'', located under the Place du Havre between the stations of lines 12 and 13 has been called "one of the architectural masterpieces of the Métro". It was designed by the architect Lucien Bechmann in the form of a large rotunda, a legacy of the former ''Nord-Sud'' company. Its metallic vault, comprises eight interlocking pillars, is adorned with mouldings and ceramic tiles with light brown and green motifs, while the vault is tiled in white with green friezes. Pillars regularly receive backlit advertising posters during certain event campaigns. Following a 2004 restoration of the pillars, only the vault itself is original. A corridor connects St. Augustin metro station on Line 9 to the southwest end of Line 14 Saint-Lazare metro station and, as a result, to Saint-Lazare Station. In addition, it is possible through other corridors to reach the Opera station via the platforms of

(

), then to Havre - Caumartin, the hall of the

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of the

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line and finally the corridor leading to line 7 and 8 at Opera Station. This continuity, putting together several connections from the Saint-Augustin station to the Opera station, is the longest of the Paris metro. Since 2011, the ''La Voix lactée'' mosaic by Quebec artist

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has been installed in the connecting corridor connecting line 14 to line 9 (Saint-Augustin station). One of the main accesses is located on the "Cour de Rome". This access is called "La lentille" (''the Lens'') and consists of a glass bubble to protect passengers from bad weather during the ascent, and to allow light to enter the station. Underneath there is a large circular access shaft, with many escalators, which is the old TBM (''Tunnel Boring Machine'') access shaft for the construction of the extension to St Lazare. This access shaft allows direct access to the lines 3/13/14, the other lines being further away.

Platforms

The platforms of the four lines are standard configuration. Two per stop, they are separated by the metro tracks located in the center. The platforms of Line 3 are built flush with the wall. the ceiling consists of a metal deck whose beams, silver in color, are supported by vertical pillars. They are laid out in the ''Andreu-Motte'' style in relatively neutral tones with two bright grey-green light canopies, the walls and tympans covered with large white flat tiles as well as grey tiled benches deprived of seats. The advertisements are devoid of frames and the station's name is inscribed in Parisine font on enamelled plates. On lines 12 and 13, the vault is elliptical and the lower part of the walls are vertical, a shape specific to the old ''Nord-Sud'' stations. They are among the rare stations of this company not to have found their original style, only the green earthenware advertising frames being renewed. Their decoration is quite similar, approaching the style used for most metro stations, with white and rounded lighting canopies in the ''Gaudin'' style of the ''renouveau du métro des années 2000'' renovations and bevelled white ceramic tiles covering the walls, the vault and the tympans, on line 12, while the vault of line 13, lower, is painted white. The station on line 13 is also distinguished by the presence of

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and the absence of seats due to its frequent usage, unlike the platforms of line 12 equipped with white ''Motte'' style seats. The name of the station is written in Parisine typography on enameled plates in both cases. The station of line 14 is established at great depth under the well of the Cour de Rome, which disrupts the elliptical vault in the form of a large glass footbridge and brings a little natural light on the platforms. Like the other stations on the line, it has a modern and sober decoration with light concrete as well as glass planks on the walls, platforms tiled in light gray, equipped with wooden seats and platform doors. The name of the station appears in Parisine script on backlit panels embedded in the sidewalls and on stickers affixed to the platform facades. The platforms are designed to accommodate trains of 120 meters long, but are only fitted out over 90 meters because the lack of space in the turnaround loop (very rare situation that the station shares with Place Monge on line 7). This situation should be fixed towards the end of 2019, the platforms are under construction in order to extend them to be able to accommodate the MP 14 trainsets with eight cars.

Other connections

The station has, since 14 July 1999, a direct connection, with the Haussmann - Saint-Lazare station on line E of the RER. It is also served by lines 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 42, 43, 66, 80, 94, 95 and 528 of the

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and, by night, by lines N01, N02, N15, N16, N51, N52, N53, N150, N151, N152, N153 and N154 from the

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network.

Nearby

* Hilton Paris Opéra * Passage du Havre

Gallery

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint-Lazare (Paris Metro) Accessible Paris Métro stations Paris Métro stations in the 8th arrondissement of Paris Paris Métro stations in the 9th arrondissement of Paris Railway stations in France opened in 1904 Paris Métro stations located underground