La Plaine-Stade de France: station history
Served by: RER B.
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A station served only by RER line B, on the La Plaine to Hirson and Anor line, at kilometre point 4.501. It opened in 1998 for the football World Cup and replaced La Plaine-Voyageurs station (PK 4.106), rebuilt in 1913 but by then too small. The architect Jean-Marie Duthilleul designed a structure suspended by cables, which echoes the neighbouring stadium.
Anecdote
For the walkways, "we chose wood from start to finish", says the architect, who wanted supporters to see the stadium as soon as they arrive. The station is the terminus for some trains on match evenings, on track 1, and the line crosses the Saint-Denis canal on a narrow bridge. A station for line 15 and tram line T8, named Stade de France, is planned nearby, around 2030.
Around La Plaine-Stade de France
- Stade de France, 950 m away — An 80,000-seat venue built for the 1998 World Cup, where France won its first world title.