Gare de Denfert-Rochereau

Gare de Denfert-Rochereau is a train 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.

Built from 1842 and opened on 7 June 1846, the station building had a circular shape as it possessed a rail loop. Indeed the station was the Parisian terminus of a line from Sceaux. This system, named "Arnoux" (after its inventor), was abandoned at the end of the 19th century as it required the construction of specific engines capable of travelling on very tight curves and broad gauge tracks of RailGauge|1.75m. .

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

Adjacent stations

* Denfert-Rochereau Métro

References

The original content of this article comes from [http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gare_de_Denfert-Rochereau&oldid=8460973 this version] of the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article, .