Pont du Garigliano station () is a station on 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 and its suburbs. The line crosses the region from north to south. Briefly, betwe ...
line of the
Paris Region's express suburban rail system, the
Réseau Express Régional
The (; ), commonly abbreviated RER (), is a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris and its suburbs. It acts as a combined city-center underground rail system and suburbs-to-city-center commuter rail, similar to the Elizabe ...
(RER) and
Line 3a of the
ÃŽle-de-France tramway network. The station is named for the nearby
Pont du Garigliano
The Pont du Garigliano () is a bridge across the Seine in Paris.
Location and construction
The Pont du Garigliano links Boulevard Martial-Valin in the quartier de Javel (15th arrondissement), to Boulevard Exelmans in the Auteuil quartier (1 ...
and
Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou
The Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou (, ''Georges Pompidou European Hospital'', abbr. HEGP) is a French hospital located in Paris.
The HEGP is under the aegis of the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP).
Opened in 2001, the HEGP i ...
It is located in the
15th arrondissement of Paris
The 15th arrondissement of Paris () is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as ('the fifteenth').
The 15th arrondissement, called , is situated on the Rive ...
, near the
Seine
The Seine ( , ) is a river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. It rises at Source-Seine, northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plat ...
. The station was originally named Boulevard Victor when it first opened, but it was renamed Boulevard Victor–Pont du Garigliano in 2006 for the opening of
tramway Line 3, then renamed again in early 2010.
See also
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List of stations of the Paris RER
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List of stations of the Paris Métro
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References
External links
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Buildings and structures in the 15th arrondissement of Paris
Railway stations in France opened in 1889
Réseau Express Régional stations
Railway stations in Paris
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