Pont Cardinet station

Pont Cardinet station (French: Gare de Pont Cardinet) is a railway station in Paris. It is situated on the Paris–Le Havre railway. It is the first station on the line originating from Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris. The station building is situated above the track level alongside Rue Cardinet. The station is equipped with escalators and Solari destination boards. The main line continues towards Clichy whilst a small line, now closed, branches off towards Pereire-Levallois and links St Lazare to the RER C, this branch was once part of Ligne d'Auteuil and closed in June 1996. Today, there are shuttle buses connecting Pereire-Levallois on RER C. Since December 2020, the station is also connected to the Paris Métro line 14 with the construction of the Pont Cardinet metro station.

History

Originally named Batignolles station (French: Gare des Batignolles), the station opened on 2 May 1854, along with the Auteuil railway.

Trivia

Pont Cardinet is the only SNCF station in the commune of Paris (intra muros) that is not also either a terminus or an RER station.

References

External links

Media related to Gare de Pont Cardinet at Wikimedia Commons

• Pont Cardinet station at Transilien, the official website of SNCF (in French)
• Pont Cardinet station at "Gares & Connexions", the official website of SNCF (in French)