Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel station
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Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel | ||||||||||||
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Location | Quai Branly Paris France | |||||||||||
Coordinates | 48°51′14″N 2°17′20″E / 48.854°N 2.289°E | |||||||||||
Operated by | SNCF | |||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | |||||||||||
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Construction | ||||||||||||
Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||
Accessible | No[1] | |||||||||||
Other information | ||||||||||||
Station code | 87393058 | |||||||||||
Fare zone | 1 | |||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||
Opened | 1867 | |||||||||||
Passengers | ||||||||||||
2018 | 8,792,500 | |||||||||||
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Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel station is a station on RER C in Paris named for the nearby Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel).
The site has accommodated a total of five stations. The station was originally built to receive goods necessary for the construction of the pavilions for the
Railway station
A junction station, it is located west of the
The 1867 station
The first station was built for the Exposition Universelle (1867). This station was a terminus and the line ran from the Petite-Ceinture to the Champ de Mars. The station was demolished shortly after the Exposition.[3]
The 1878 station
A new station was built for the Exposition Universelle (1878). The building was designed and built by Juste Lisch. It had four dead-end tracks as well as four additional parking tracks. This enabled a greater functionality than the previous station.
The station was composed of a central metallic rooftop, filled with red bricks. Two side buildings (called pagodas) encompassed the passenger concourse which were themselves hidden behind canopies which extended onto the platforms. A buffet was built to the south of the station along the Avenue de Suffren.
Champ de Mars remained open after the World's Fair and regained popularity for the 1889 World's Fair. The Eiffel Tower was built next to the station.
In mid 1894, all passenger services ended to permit the demolition of all of the level crossings. A bridge over the river Seine to link the dead-end line to the
The 1900 station
For the
As well as a passenger station, the CF de l'Ouest also built a
The 1900 goods station
Between 1900 and 1937, the goods station was a busy coal terminal. 1910 was the scene of spectacular flooding which gave many photographers the opportunity to take curious photos of the site under water.
In 1937, the goods yard was transferred to
The 1988 station
In 1988, the RER C, a new suburban railway line opened. Champ de Mars became a stop on the line serving the Eiffel Tower and the connection stop for trains from Pontoise and Versailles.
The station is currently covered, situated below the Quai Branly but many features from the original station remain such as the platform walls.
The current station has two side platforms serving 2 out of 3 tracks.
Adjacent stations
- Bir-Hakeim, on the Paris Métro Line 6, is within walking distance
See also
- List of RER stations
- List of Paris Métro stations
References
- ^ "Plan pour les voyageurs en fauteuil roulant" [Map for travelers in wheelchairs] (PDF). Île-de-France Mobilités (in French and British English). 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ Bouchez, Pierre. "Line of Moulineaux from Paris St-Lazare to Invalides (1889–1993)": 94.
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(help) - ^ Tullin, Pierre (January 2009). "De l'embarcadère du Champ-de-Mars à la gare électrique de Bois-Colombes". Historail. 8: 84–95.
External links
Media related to Gare du Champ de Mars - Tour Eiffel at Wikimedia Commons
- Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel station at Transilien, the official website of SNCF (in French)