Stade de France-Saint-Denis: station history
Served by: RER D.
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A station in Seine-Saint-Denis opened in 1998 for the football World Cup, served by branch D1 of RER D. It was designed to evacuate large crowds quickly, with wide inclined ramps and a wide ticket-control line. It has only one entrance, on place aux Étoiles, and two overhead footbridges, to the north and south, lead to the platforms; each has four staggered ramps. A central track, accessible from both platforms, serves as terminus or origin for some services.
Anecdote
It stands roughly on the site of the former Landy halt, on the "trains-tramways" line operated by the Compagnie du Nord until the First World War. Designed first as a halt for the Stade de France, it became widely used by employees of the Landy business district. Its neighbour to the west, the Landy technicentre, is a TGV maintenance site of 30 hectares with 27 kilometres of track. On 24 June 2024 it received a remote interchange with the metro stations of Saint-Denis Pleyel and Carrefour Pleyel.
Around Stade de France-Saint-Denis
- Basilique de Saint-Denis, 900 m away — The first great Gothic building in history, necropolis of the Kings of France.
- Stade de France, 700 m away — An 80,000-seat venue built for the 1998 World Cup, where France won its first world title.