Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel: station history
Served by: RER C.
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A RER C station at the junction of the branches towards Versailles / Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and towards Pontoise, connecting with Bir-Hakeim (line 6) by an underground corridor. The present station opened in 1979, with the Left Bank Transversal, which became RER line C in 1980. It succeeds several stations opened by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest for the Universal Exhibitions of 1867, 1878, 1889 and 1900. The site now houses the International Union of Railways.
Anecdote
The 1878 station, the work of the architect Juste Lisch (metal frame, polychrome brick, cut-stone base), ended passenger service in 1894; the building was dismantled and rebuilt at Asnières-sur-Seine as the « gare des Carbonnets » in 1897. For the 1900 Exhibition, a vast annex station of twenty tracks, ten platforms and two turntable bridges was built, and an electric shuttle linked the Champ-de-Mars to the Invalides station. The goods station closed in 1937.
Around Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel
- Tour Eiffel, 280 m away — The world's most visited monument, built by Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 World's Fair.
- Champ de Mars, 290 m away — A vast landscaped esplanade at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, a former military parade ground.