Gare du Nord is the busiest
station of the
Paris Métro, handling 95.6 million entries/exits a year and serving
line 4 and
line 5. It is connected to the
SNCF's major station,
Gare du Nord, which serves
RER and
Transilien commuter trains as well as interurban trains to northern France,
Eurostar trains to
London and
Thalys trains to
Brussels,
Amsterdam and
Cologne.
In November 1907 Line 5 was extended from
Gare d'Orléans (now known as
Gare d'Austerlitz) to
Gare du Nord where the station was built on a reversing loop. On 21 April 1908 Line 4 was opened from
Châtelet to
Porte de Clignancourt through
Gare du Nord. In 1942, the old Line 5 station was closed and replaced with a through station, in preparation for the extension to
Église de Pantin. The part of the old loop that was not destroyed during the building of
RER Line B in the 1970s together with connecting lines to
Lines 2 and 4 under the
Boulevard de Magenta and the
Rue de Dunkerque are now used for driver training (
USFRT). The length of platforms on Line 4 were extended from 75m to 90m in the 1960s during the upgrading of the line for
rubber-tyre operations.
The
church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul is nearby.
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<gallery widths="200px" heights="125px" perrow="2">File:Metro de Paris - Ligne 4 - Gare du Nord 01.jpg|
Line 4 platforms at Gare du NordFile:Metro de Paris - Ligne 5 - Gare du Nord 01.jpg|
Line 5 platforms at Gare du NordFile:Gare du Nord line 5 Métro Station.jpg|
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