Saint-Denis Pleyel: station history
Served by: metro line 14.
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The station opened on 24 June 2024 and became the terminus of line 14. A public consultation offered three names: Saint-Denis Pleyel, Carrefour Pleyel and Ignace Pleyel, and voters kept the project name. Aimed at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, to serve the events held in Saint-Denis, it has tracks 27 m deep and 120 m platforms. It is 300 m from rue du Landy, the boundary with Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, and the Stade de France - Saint-Denis station (RER D) is linked by the Pleyel urban crossing.
Anecdote
Designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, with a 5,000 m² cultural and social innovation space built in, the station has a façade clad in vertical oak beams and horizontal larch boards that guide passengers while letting light through. The Pleyel urban crossing, a 365 m bridge designed by Marc Mimram, spans the railway tracks.
Around Saint-Denis Pleyel
- Basilique de Saint-Denis, 1400 m away — The first Gothic building in history and the necropolis of the Kings of France for over a thousand years.
- Stade de France, 350 m away — France's national stadium, opened in 1998, where the French team won its first football World Cup.