Magenta Train Station (France)
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design |
Through station tunnel station |
| opening | July 12, 1999 |
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| City / municipality | Paris |
| Place / district | 10th arrondissement |
| Department | Paris |
| region | Île-de-France |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 52 '48 " N , 2 ° 21' 30" E |
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The Magenta station ( French : Gare du Magenta ) is a tunnel station on the Paris RER rapid transit network . It is located between the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l'Est in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. It was opened in 1999 - two days before the RER line E went into operation .
You can change to the RER B and D at Gare du Nord and to lines 4 and 5 of the Métro at the metro station of the same name . The long-distance trains TGV , Thalys and Eurostar and the local trains of lines H and K of the Transilien network also operate at Gare du Nord . The La Chapelle metro station on line 2 is also connected to the station.
The station is named after the nearby Boulevard de Magenta , which in turn was designed by Napoleon III. named in memory of the Battle of Magenta .
construction
The platforms are located at a depth of 30 meters, in the ninth basement of a building that was built below the existing development. The platform hall is spacious and considerably higher than z. B. at the metro stations. The railway system has three entrances: two from the Gare du Nord (long-distance traffic and Transilien or from the RER station); the third starts on rue de l'Aqueduc near rue d'Alsace, the main pedestrian route between Gare de l'Est and Gare du Nord stations.
To ventilate the system, large ventilation towers had to be built, which were fitted into the existing above-ground development. One of these buildings is in the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis and shows a house with painted windows as a trompe-l'œil building .
Train operation
The station has four tracks, which in continuity with the neighboring Gare du Nord carry the numbers 51 to 54 and can be reached via two central platforms . Two tracks are reserved for trains in the direction of the Haussmann - Saint-Lazare terminus , the other two are used by trains going out of town. Since only a maximum of 16 trains per hour can be dispatched at the terminus Haussmann - Saint-Lazare, individual trains end in magenta during rush hour.
