Pont du Garigliano: station history
Served by: RER C.
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An RER line C station in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, beneath the esplanade Henri-de-France. Its first building was opened by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest on the Moulineaux line, then on the Invalides to Versailles-Rive-Gauche line. The 1886 plan named it Grenelle, but at opening it received the name Javel; it then became Boulevard Victor, after the boulevard des Maréchaux that overlooks it, dedicated to Marshal Victor, then Pont du Garigliano, and finally Pont du Garigliano - Hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou in 2012.
Anecdote
The 1900 station building was demolished in 1961 and replaced by a plain construction, then by the present building. The neighbouring old Grenelle goods station had 925 metres of usable track. In the mid-1980s this site hosted trials of ARAMIS, an automatic mini-metro by RATP and Matra Transport: the first set, made of two coupled units of ten seats each, ran before the experiment ended, the capacity being too low. The France Télévisions headquarters was later built on the site of the former Grenelle-Marchandises station.
Around Pont du Garigliano
- Pont Mirabeau, 1450 m away — A bridge that inspired one of Apollinaire's most famous poems.
- Héliport de Paris-Issy-les-Moulineaux, 450 m away — A heliport on the Seine, the capital's only public heliport.